Re: NVDA vs JFW

  • From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:48:45 -0600

Use of eloquence with NVDA is only illegal in some countries.  I've
looked into it and it is not illegal in the U.S. so far as I can
determine.

Alex M



On 12/14/10, QuentinC <quentinc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm mainly a jaws user, but NVDA helps me sometimes: when jaws has crashed,
> when I have occasionnally to go on a PC owned by someone else, or when I
> have to virtualize windows XP for school job without having any extra jaws
> license. That's an excellent job for an open source product.
>
> I'm profiting there is a NVDA developper there to ask some questions  and
> drop some remarks :
> 1. Is it planed to add a jaws cursor ? I'm used to jaws for a very long time
> and have difficulties to be comfortable without that important feature.
> 2. Has the NVDA with eloquence topic evolved ? because that's also a factor
> which stop me from using NVDA more frequently. I know this is currently
> illegal, but I really hope that a solution could be found. IMO It would
> greatly help in switching from JFW to NVDA.
> 3. I never deeply tried. Is NVDA working well with QT, GTK, WX or more
> generally, open source GUI based applications, or is the support generally
> as poor as jaws ? That's something we can really reproach to FS...
> 4. IN jaws, there is a feature (Voice schemes) for changing voice
> characteristics when encountering a bold or italic or whatever particularely
> formatted word in a text, even in a single line. I think that such a feature
> is interesting. Sorry if it already exists.
> 5. I would like to report a translation error in french version, which
> exists for ages (more than 1 year). Many stupid people say that « exit » is
> untranslatable and must remind as such. I think you should replace it by «
> quitter ».
>
> Thank you for your answers.
>
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