You say that NVDA works with Open Office. How well does it work? For some reason, I thought it wasn't going to be usable until Sun switched over to Iaccessible 2. On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:38 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> 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. > > Ryan Mann rmann0...@gmail.com Get to the root of the problem with the US economy at http://www.dailypaul.com. -- 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.
