I use NVDA as a backup for when JAWS crashes.
For my purpose, it works fine, except for the inability to use place
markers on web pages.
One advantage I have is the use of Eloquence with NVDA, because it uses
the unlocked version that comes with Kurzweil. Otherwise, the NVDA
voice is not too pleasant to my ears.
On 12/30/2015 11:34 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:
Anyone who's been around here for more than the last few days and has
been reading my posts already knows I'm a sighted tutor who teaches
JAWS, among other assistive technology. I'm just throwing that out
there for our newest members.
As anyone who uses JAWS knows, it's a very expensive piece of software
and since Freedom Scientific does not offer any discount or free license
to people doing what I do (that I know of) there's no way I can justify
the expense.
I know that I can pick up a copy of NVDA, the open-source screen reader,
from nvaccess.org <http://www.nvaccess.org/> for free. I already have
fully functional (but without the high-end voice options) version of
WindowEyes as well.
What I'm wondering is how similar either one of these might be to JAWS?
A friend of mine is a WindowEyes user who can and does occasionally
use an older version of JAWS and she glides pretty effortlessly between
them and has said that a number of the commands used are the same.
There are those times when it would be handy to do some hands-on work by
myself in preparation for certain "relatively hairy" systems when I'm
going to be teaching someone to use those with JAWS, but since I can't
get a copy that remains active for just that purpose I was wondering if
either of these other two screen readers might be "parallel enough" to
be of some use in getting a feel for how JAWS will work with a given
website, etc.
Brian
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