Hello, NVDA is a free open source screen reader. It is a competater of jaws or window-eyes. It offers braille support, dll and sapi software synthesizer support, msaa support, scripting capability, and very good to excellent support for open source aplications like firefox, thunderbird, and open office. It doesn't do all that well with microsoft applications, but it will give you the basics. It can't simulate the mouse pointer the way jaws and window-eyes can, but it does have a feature called object navigation that will let you get to non tabbed objects in a limited way. It comes with espeak synthesizer, which is fast and stable. It isn't anything like human sounding speech though. If you care about it sounding like a person, you're gonna hate it. I am a bit old though and I fondly remember my accent sa. None of the modern natural sounding voices comes close to soundind as good as that thing in my book.
NVDA is not for high profile job aplications yet, but the development has been steady and they've got a really viable product for common computer tasks. Many of my clients could use it very happily and never miss jaws. Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2009-12-09, at 1:53 PM, Christina wrote: > > So onto my questions. What is NVDA? I do not have a windows screen > reader like jaws or window eyes so I'm curious as to what this is and > how robust this is. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
