Honest discussion, why pay for and use jaws over free screen readers?
Before I start, any one who has them out, put away your flame throwers, your A K 47s, Your nukes, or any other weapons of mass distruction you may have laying around. We as the audio Games.net community do not need to be held responsible for the start of World War III.
With that said, I’ll continue.
I want perspectives on jaws. I will be honest, and not hold any thing back, from the perspective as an nvda user. I see very little reason to use or pay for jaws. Now, I will say, for 1 web page, it worked, wile nvda didn't. But why the heck pay 1000 just to use your computer? Perhaps things were different back in the 1990s but nowadays, we have multiple screen readers, some of which are free. And yet schools spend money on something they can easily get for free. Perhaps they have a discount. Someone enlighten me if that’s so.
I once asked one of the teachers at school if there were any advantages to jaws over NVDA. They couldn’t really think of anything, and I believe they were proficient in using both screenreaders.
So why spend all the money. Jaws is not only needlessly expensive, but if I remember properly, close sourced, which there may be some advantages to. But I like NVDA for its customizability. Nvda is open source, free, and flexible. This is not an advertisement for nvda. It is my perspective.
I’ve heard people say that they still use jaws because they are used to it, which is understandable. Along time ago I heard something about jaws using a technology that in a matter of time would be obsolete, I cannot verify this.
My goal in creating this topic is not to start a flame war. I want honest opinions, reasons, and discussion. Many of the people I’ve met hate jaws with a passion. It reminds them, and me, of really old crappy Windows 7 hp computers from school. My experience with said computers has been far from the worst, and that’s probably not jaws fault either.
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