I've been using NVDA since beta stages. I also use jaws as well. I only use it for things that I can't get NVDA to work with. Its really up in the air wth me as to what screen reader is better. I like them both.
For me, Jaws has only proven itself in one thing, and that's using the MNLP editor. It's a program with which you can create your own TTS voice, and it doesn't work as well with object navigation or the text review commands in NVDA. I can do way more with the Jaws cursor.
I may have mentioned this before, but I only found one window that NVDA didn't read as well as JAWS, but since I already know how to use that window, I got JAWS too late to help me with it.
I've never had a desire to make my own TTS voice, so I reckon i won't ever have that program or that issue.
So what's that thing? How do we get and use it? I'd love to have a voice of my own. -- (hozosch): For me, Jaws has only proven itself in one thing, and that's using the MNLP editor. It's a program with which you can create your own TTS voice, and it doesn't work as well with object navigation or the text review commands in NVDA. I can do way more with the Jaws cursor.
No, NVDA's bugs and useless updates are just annoying. Many things they don't bother to work on. They just focus on some critical bugs. This is the case for roughly a year or so.
About the only gripe I have with NVDA, and this may seem a bit nit-picking, is that they can't handle four updates a year any more. Last year and this, the fourth update is named after the previous year. They should be more realistic and only do three updates a year now.
Hm, I cannot say that nvda's updates are useless. Of course one disadvantage is that nvda works not so fine with open office products :( complicated cell selection and some information retrieval from open office calc, also, no way for viewing or edit slides, so for this reason I need to have open office and powerpoint as well. a bit anoying.
Love this thread! Hey Bro, sounds like I need to learn about "object navigation." I haven't heard you use that term, until this thread. BTW, I wish I could show you this Blindshell phone. Android and has a real dial pad, no touch screen. And they are making improvements.
I am blessed to have my two younger brothers as my Go To guys for computer tech help. Add this to the Microsoft Disability Desk, and my Technology education is rapidly expanding. Brother Charles has just about turned me into a fulltime NVDA user, but still like System Access for simple reading.
