Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
1, it's easy to set up and get running, whereas JAWS requires registration, and from my experience people actually had to be called, to help my vision teacher and I install it.
You must have run into an unusual problem then, I've installed JAWS a number of times on my own and other systems and have never needed to contact anyone else to get it installed, activated, and configured as needed, which usually amounts to answering half a dozen questions.
3. It's a more practical financial solution. You use JAWS, but did you purchase it with your own credit card, with no outside assistance what soever? I know that I had no assistance getting NVDA...
I find this question insulting, but I'll ignore that and answer your question anyway. Yes I bought JAWS with my own money with no assistance from anyone. I understand that not everyone is so fortunate so they have to look at other options. I don't go around insulting NVDA users by implying that they had to choose NVDA because they are poor or needed assistance to get JAWS.
5. You actually have to go through a whole set up wizard with JAWS when it's installed. There are so many settings you have to configure, and you have to read the documentation to get what some of them mean.
The same is true of NVDA. With JAWS I've been able to make all the adjustments I needed or wanted almost without ever reading the manual. With NVDA, I could not get any program specific settings to work until I've read the manual. That's time that I could have been productive.
6. May I ask what tweaking, (Code because jaws requires s ettings tweaking as well so that's not a valid argument if it's not code related), you had to do for NVDA in the month you used it? Or, were you just trying to make it like Jaws since that's what you were used to. Unfamiliarity does not make a screen reader only usable for geeks and techies. I had a hard time getting used to NVDA, simply because I was using Jaws for 3 years before starting with it. But to be honest, I was doing my every day tasks with NVDA, starting the first day...
No code tweaking at all, usually just a changing a single setting. And no, I wasn't trying to make NVDA like JAWS, I was willing to accept learning a different program. The tweaking I had to do in NVDA was to make the programs accessible, period. For example, in NVDA my prefered file manager is completely inaccessible until you make some pretty significant changes to NVDA. But in JAWS I only had to change one setting and that was so JAWS could read the filenam es of files I've selected for multi file operations. If I was willing to forego multi file operations, the file manager was completely accessible in JAWS with no adjustments necessary.
No, I don't believe I'm bashing NVDA, it's quite an impressive program, I'm just comparing it to JAWS, but because you don't agree with me you call my comparisons, bashing. On the other hand, I see a lot of scornful comments made about JAWS that are just opinions, rather than comparisons of the two programs, now that is bashing.
But, go ahead and bash away, because it's human nature to bash the top dog. So all you are doing when you bash JAWS is acknowleging that JAWS is the best screen reader.
k_jones, You're right, this is turning into a screen reader debate which is not the purpose of this thread. I'm partially guilty of hijacking the thread, but in my defense I felt that the remarks that severestormsteve1 made about JAWS needed an answ er. I guess I gave more of an answer than was needed. Sorry.
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