Yeah, after I posted all that I saw a reply from one of my Twitter people that there seems to be two screen readers built into Samsung devices. Why this should be I don't know. Confusing, but yeah.
I have used jaws for years but since last year I have used NVDA only. It is indeed lighter, doesn't slow your system, and has basically everything Jaws have, with a few variations. Besides, few are those who can afford to buy jaws anymore.
I have a friend who lives in Portland, Maine who has trouble even updating JAWS. He says it leaves a lot of stuff behind. Then, to top that off, I saw a tweet from someone who said that when they update JAWS the desktop shortcut disappears. Oh my!
Yes, and when I tried reinstalling jaws a few months ago to make a comparison, it messed up my windows explorer. so I removed it, removed all shared files, deleted the registry key and it's good bye to freedom scientific for good
Having scanned a bit of the one for Window-Eyes, I can safely say it isn't written as well as the one for JAWS is. The one for JAWS only has one or possibly two mistakes in grammar, more simpler for instance. The word more can be deleted.
as far as window eys, they are closed. they have made a tutorial, I'mtold, to lppele migrate to Jaws,their main competitr. I could more or less predict this when they have asciated with microsoft offering a fe copy for the one who bought a cpy of ofie.
No karl, Samsungs Screenreader is called Voice Assistant, before samsung called it "Galaxy Talkback". Talkback isn't installed on devices wich allready comes with VA.
I found out later that Talkback has to be downloaded on Samsung devices, so it must be different enough. One of my Twitter people kept asking if she should try Talkback when she got her Samsung.
Hi. To compare one screen reader with the other, I always found it annoying that you always have to renew your SMA with Freedom Scientific every threeyears or so and on top of that, pay for it to be able to use Jaws. I onlyu use Jaws now as a demo version. Other than that, it's NVDA. Concerning Weather Plus, it's a good add; although I find their weather forecass not quiet accurate but of course, that depends from Yahoo. Concerning freezing on certain Web Sites, it's true that it happens when you are usin NVDA with the Internet explorer Web Browser. You don't have this problem with Google Chrome or Micro Soft Edge and it only happens when you end up in frames which are on many Web Sites.
Any weather app is going to be inaccurate. That is the nature of weather prediction, smiles.
On a completely different subject, I'm now a Voice-over user, using an iPhone I sort of inherited from my wife. I wish I could say I liked it but I find everything super slow, both in learning and in execution. It is intuitive, for the most part, but my fingers never go where they're supposed to, haha.
In NVDA, an exciting new add-on has been created by Joseph Lee called add-on Updater. It checks your currently installed, enabled, add-ons and gives you a list of the ones needing updates. This is so much easier than trying to find ones needing such by trial and error. I had four that needed the update when I first installed it this morning. I'm very excited and pleased! It is available on the NVDA add-ons page, available in the NVDA menu under tools, manage add-ons, get add-ons.
And that add-on has just updated again, and now automatically checks for updates every twenty-four hours. This is good stuff, and it may even be merged into NVDA itself, making the add-on obsolete. Joseph Lee says this is a proof of concept add-on, and it sounds very probable that NVDA will incorporate it soon.
Weather Plus isn't included in the other add-on, neither is Extended Braille, and two others, Station Playlist Studio and of course the add-on updater itself.
