[nvda] Re: NVDA, Now The Screen Reader Of Choice?

I have a couple questions, and please bear with again as I am late catching
up on emails.
 
Is there a new beta for NVDA?  Should I grab it, or will it mess with
current settings?
 
Now onto NVDA itself.  I have very little knowledge of Window-eyes, but I do
work with JAWS quite a bit.  There are just a few things I wish NVDA would
work better with, but really, it does everything I need it to do, with a
couple exceptions.  There are a couple of games I have, for instance, that I
can't play unless I use JAWS.  That kind of is a bummer, and I guess I could
get rid of those games.
 
How well does NVDA work with Skype 4.01 compared to JAWS?  Does it read text
chat messages, allow me to get calls, and so on?
 
Jane
 
 

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From: nvda-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nvda-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Trenton Matthews
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 8:07 PM
To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nvda] Re: NVDA, Now The Screen Reader Of Choice?


I honestly must say,

I have been using NVDA quite extensively now.
What does bother me with Window-eyes currently is indeed the time they are
taking for 7.5 to come out.
Normally, it don't take this long for a screen reader to come out with
something like a new browse mode update, wouldn't you think?
Hopefully by the end of this year or earlier, a beta will come out.
The scripting, although powerful, definitely slows down its stibility. 
Although, considering that NVDA works with the skype interface in 3.8
extremely well, and not so bad in 4.1, at least it doesn't need that skype
extra's manager.
Wonder what GW micro will do once the extra's manager won't be supported
anymore.
If its still there in future skype releases, i'll be shocked.

On 10/25/2009 15:45, Nimer wrote: 

Trenton,

I am actually quite disappointed with window eyes because of its response
time and because of browse mode. On my machine, there is a lag. Also, browse
mode is terrible!! I've been playing more with JAWS, and it crashes far less
and is much easier to use than window eyes. NVDA's still top of the line
though, with the exception of the latest nightly build of seamonkey. there,
JAWS works great!!

Thanks
Nimer J

Øyvind Lode wrote: 

Hi

  

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From: "Trenton Matthews"  <mailto:trenton.tmantv@xxxxxxxxx>
<trenton.tmantv@xxxxxxxxx>

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Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:50 AM

Subject: [nvda] Re: NVDA, Now The Screen Reader Of Choice?





      

The last I shall say about the dear old shark, is that the day that 

freedom decides to make upgrades actually mean something, is the day 

I may play with a demo . All these features come down to a price of 

around $160, and that for every upgrade is ridiculous in itself.

Must I say the upgrades are too modern?

That's the biggest thing, this research feature.

Jaws will always still be the largest screen reader on a person's 

harddrive, and its quite sad its over 100 MB, not including the 

self-talking installer, which is not technically needed.

Oh, and as for documentation and stuff, it of course is my own 

oppinion, nothing more.

But the fact always willl remain, Jaws will never, be, stable. Just 

wait or the next time it crashes.

As for the hotkeys, who's gonna mess with one of those files with 

hot keys? Too risky in my oppinion.

Ok, I'm done.

The only thing great about Freedom if anything, is their podcasts. A 

bit long, but they got good intro music.

        

I agree.

What FS charges for it's screen reader is ridiculous.

$200 just for some bug fixes and a new feature called Research IT...



Never listened to their podcasts though, so I can't comment on the intro

music :)



  

Oh, anything Jaws can do, NVDA and Window-Eyes can do it quite easily.

Case closed for the T Man here, back to the Window-Eyes and NVDA 

side of life.



        



I have to disagree, jaws is far better than NVDA when it comes to Braille

support.

That's the only reason I'm still stuck with JFW.



I can't comment on Window-Eyes, since I have never tried it.



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