I'm probably opening up a can of worms here but I would just like to expound a bit about NVDA, and invite others to do so about their favorite or primary screen readers.
When I first saw NVDA, I was so not impressed. I believe it was still in beta or a very early version, and I couldn't get any use out of it then. I wound up having to use Zoom Text, of all things, to get what I wanted done, but that was then.
Much later, I came back to it, and found it had grown up. It is now so usable, and has been for quite some time.
Recently, I'm proud to say, that I even became familiar with object navigation. I didn't think I'd ever learn that, being, in my opinion, not very intuitive. But now I see some logic in its use, and can do so much more with it.
I used to be a JAWS user, and look at me now. I don't have any version of JAWS on my computer.
Yeah, the same here. I was using JAWS and then got into NVDA because one of my friends had it and I thought for some odd reason it would come with Real Speak voices, just because my friend was using them with it. I knew from another friend of mine it uses Espeak by default, but I thought it would install Real Speak voices as well. I was a bit disapointed when it didn't come with them. The first version I had was 2011.1. At that time, it was quite usable, although still not as good as it is today. I was amazed when I saw how many languages Espeak and the screen reader itself can speak.
I basically had to switch to NVDA because the system I bought, this one, was sixty-four-bit, and I didn't have a version of JAWS that would work with that architecture. I later got one that would but, because of the way it was cracked it wouldn't work either. It kept making me go on and offline.
Ah well, NVDA rocks, especially these days, and there's lots of good add-ons for it.
i still use sapi. can't work with my screen-reader and sapi voices things get all crazy and start glitching in places so it sounds like both voices are coming in together when it should only be one voice but i don't particualy no but i'll be keeping up to date with elton and learning various stuff from pajpa and everyone else. hey charls, lol more fun things you'll be trying to do on hear mate? lol and if i'm not to use your main name on hear instead of thespide lol sorry.
jump to the skies above, let me take you to where you need to be!LINE
My primary screen reader is JAWS, but I have NVDA, System Access and Narrator. How do you install add-ons in NVDA 2017? Every time I try to install one it asks if I want to open or save it. In previous NVDA versions, the add-on installation dialog would automatically come up, but it doesn't anymore. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Yes, and there are some add-ons, like Weather Plus, which download as zip files, and you have to change the extension to .nvda-addon for it to install. Just sayin'.
When I get it from the site, I get it as zip, and if I try to get it when there's an update, I get taken to an Italian site, or the download thing does nothing. When I save, which is the dialog that comes up, I get download has been canceled.
Yeah, that's the most current one. How strange. From which site did you get it? You can also get it from the official NVDA addons page. On there, it's in normal addon format for sure.
Yes, strange indeed, and that's the only way I can get it at all, from the add-on site. the check for update thing takes me to that unusable dialog that cancels on me.
Hi all. I use NVDA but I prefer jaws. I was using jaws on my old windows xp machine. I started using NVDA then because to buy a coppy of jaws would be expensive. I'd say NVDA is okay, it stil freezes when I go to certain websites. With jaws I didn't have that problem. I guess it depends what you want out of a programme.
I'm also having problems with firefox. Was going to make a thread about it on klango since I found it quite a useful brouser. It's rather strange or ironic since it's supposed to be a faster brouser since the update. But back to the original topic.
