Re: New NVDA user
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Clare Page <clare.page@...>
Hi!
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I was a JAWS user for ten years before I switched to using NVDA full-time. I used JAWS 3.5 on Windows 98 to begin with, then JAWS 6.20 on Windows XP. In 2010 my XP computer started having power issues, so I started using NVDA more regularly on that computer because it used less power. That computer finally gave up the ghost in 2011, so, as I couldn't afford to upgrade JAWS for Windows 7, I switched to NVDA and have used that ever since. The only thing which would make me use JAWS again is if I needed it for a particular job, or if I was using someone else's computer which has JAWS but not NVDA, but neither situation seems very likely for me right now. As for add-ons, I use several, including Vocalizer, the add-on for Winamp, and the add-on to read emoticons and emojis which are so often used these days. There are lots of good add-ons out there, depending on what you want, whether it's extra voices or extra functions. Bye for now! From Clare -----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of John Isige Sent: mardi 31 octobre 2017 20:21 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] New NVDA user Well I don't know about strengths and weaknesses. But my testimonial is that I got sick of paying for jaws, so I decided to try NVDA for a month, I think it was. There were a few times, mostly with installers or the like, where I'd run into a situation where NVDA wouldn't read the screen, so I'd fire up jaws. Jaws didn't read the screen either. I realized that NVDA was doing everything I needed it to and jaws wasn't offering me any advantages that I could see, so I switched. Pretty simple really. I have nothing against jaws, used it for years, man I want to say from 3 or 4 or such. As for addons, you might want to check out NVDA Remote. There's an addon for Winamp and VLC. I've got Vocalizer for NVDA. The SysTrayList addon is nice, but that's mostly because I can never remember if there's a quick way to get to the system tray without it. NVDA works just fine without it, you can get into the tray and right click and all, but the addon basically gives you the equivalent of jaws-F11. A couple other jaws equivalents are Virtual Review and Place Markers, the latter gives you place markers on web pages and some other documents. Hope that helps. |
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