Hello David There is one name you've missed out here and to be honest, it would probably be the one I use alongside NVDA for the purposes of this experiment. That being Window-Eyes from GW Micro. Gordon has a licensed copy of WE 7.5.1 although he's distinctly unimpressed by what it has to offer as opposed to the previous version. Jaws is what I presume you mean by JFW and it is a reader which I have never even seen. As a visually abled person I only see what is available to me in the accessibility field but I think the route I will go here is to install the latest version of NVDA alongside the latest version of Window-Eyes. That should suffice for the project I am undertaking.
there is actually a practical reason why I'm doing this; a friend of ours who works for Teesside University is engaged is a lecturer in computer science at the university and he was looking for somebody in my situation who would be willing to volunteer to help him compile a module on accessibility for use in the upcoming academic year by his students so I volunteered. He contacted Gordon and I because he's a friend of ours as I said and he didn't know anybody else who he could ask. We think it's good that he's interested in adding a module based around accessibility into his lectures and Gordon and I will be going over there to give a practical demonstration and a talk to one of his students' groups. I want to be as informed as possible, and that is the prime reason I'm taking this on. Of course there will be a discussion of Voiceover and Zoom on both Mac OS X and iOS as well. I want the sessions we do over there to be as broad-ranging as possible. Lynne On 3 Sep 2011, at 11:29, David Griffith wrote: I would include the free NVDA screenreader as part of your study. I have se up Windows 7 under VM Fusion in order to retain access to my must have utilities whilst I make the transition to the Mac. Although NVDA is free it sometimes outperforms the Jaws 11 screenreader I am using. Some programs which are inaccessible with Jaws are perfectly accessible with NVDA. The reverse is true so it is generally a good idea to have at least a free 40 minute demo version of jaws alongside NVDA if you want to go the free route. The other advantage of NVDA is that it can be run portably on any Windows system without having to install special drivers. Similar points have also been made about the free SA to Go screen reader which runs from a web connection. I have not found it necessary to use this as NVDA meets all my portable needs. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
