Hi Adam I can't deny, I an puzzled. Why is it so necessary to have a virtual cursor? I think that it's high time Freedom and GW moved away from that outdated concept. All those extra unnecessary keystrokes must surely mean a whole lot of slow-downs and less productivity in the equivalent time that it would take to achieve the same results either with on-the-fly interactivity or for somebody who doesn't require screen-reading technologies. Personally, having played with it a bit, I am starting to like the way that NVDA works. Definitely, in terms of speed, NVDA has the edge. I used Jaws 13 on the same machine I am currently using with NVDA and even under Jaws 13, the machine was nowhere even close to as responsive as it is now with NVDA installed. My future employer in the education world is also moving towards NVDA. I am very fortunate in as much as the person with whom I will be working, the head of the Visually Impaired department at the school I will be teaching at, is ext remely proactive in terms of innovations in technologies and he is very much an advocate of NVDA. In fact, he has already asked me to contribute to a report he is working on for submission to the principal in late June or early July which will outline the justifications for switching from Jaws, traditionally used by everybody, to NVDA, which is the up and coming thing. personally I am very excited about the prospect of working with, and teaching people to use, NVDA. It seems to work fine with everything I have tried to date. So why is it so necessary to keep stopping work, fiddling around with a virtual cursor, routing this, routing that and the other, when you can just read the screen proactively and be done with it? Even under Window-Eyes, I never used the "WE Cursor". To be honest, although there is no doubt that mouse pointer movement control is essential, the concept of the virtual cursor should have been dumped a long time ago.
n 24 Feb 2013, at 03:25, adam morris <[email protected]> wrote: is it hard to make NVDA read things on screen that you would use the jaws cursor for? interested to hear of anyone who went from JAWS to nvda and if any difference in system performance etc. On 24-February-2013 12:59, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > lol. glad you like it. i've been using it now for 3 years and I've seen > changes for the better especially in the daily snaps that are released. > > Take care. and be blessed. > On Feb 23, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi all >> >> OK, I now have NVDA recognising and using my Acapella speech system, and >> also the iVona synthesiser as well. Whatever the problem was appears to >> have been fixed by a shutdown restart because, when i went tentatively into >> the voice settings configuration this evening, it just worked without a >> hitch. Also, I simply cannot believe how responsive NVDA is in comparison >> to how Window-Eyes 7.5.4.1 was on my system previously. In fact, I never >> realised it was Window-Eyes which was causing the sluggish behaviour I was >> so used to seeing under Windows. I always thought it was the operating >> system itself. Not a bit of it. GW Micro should be ashamed as to how much >> CPU time and overhead Window-Eyes introduces into the operating system. >> >> I removed Window-Eyes yesterday and now have NVDA set up as my default >> screen-reader. I won't be reverting to Window-Eyes ever again, now that I >> have seen the other side of Window. The whole machine is just so slick and >> fast now, even the boot and shut down times are faster. Lynne tells me that >> in the system monitor utility the CPU lag is much less and, in fact, there >> is hardly any of it now. It used to be much much higher. >> >> My only criticism of NVDA is that it seems to have support for only a very >> few Braille displays, the Humanware ones not amongst them it would appear. >> Oh well, I guess you cannot complain given that the software is >> donation-based. >> >> Anyway, as far as speech goes, I am delighted with the difference that >> removing Window-Eyes has made to my system. Time to do the same on my >> little NetBook I think. >> >> Gordon >> >> <--- Gordon Smith ---> >> >> If you wish to contact me privately, please use E-Mail in the first >> instance, before you try the below. 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