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Well, Windows has more than one screen reader too, hasn't it?

Ciao,

Ollie





Il 10/03/2019 21:31, Travis Siegel ha scritto:
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> Not sure what the point would be.
>
> NVDA is a windows application, there's no advantage to porting it to
> IOS or Android, since those platforms already have screen readers,
> (IOS even has one built-in), what would be the usage case for making
> another one?
>
> Android has multiple screen readers, so AI suppose another one there
> couldn't hurt, but it won't be NVDA, since porting a windows app to a
> linux environment isn't  really something that can be done easily, (or
> in some cases) at all, because of the way they work, and to be honest,
> NVDA falls into the second category.  To make a linux screen reader,
> you need to do things entirely differently than on a windows system. 
> Basically, it would be a matter of rewriting NVDA from scratch, and
> since there's already some very good screen readers for linux, Android
> and OSX, there's not much point to it.
>
> On 3/10/2019 11:16 AM, Sociohack AC wrote:
>> Are there any plans in the pipeline for developing an NVDA app for
>> Android and IOS? Is it possible?
>> Right now, Talkback and Voiceover do support external keyboard, but
>> it would be so much more convenient if there could be an NVDA
>> application for mobile phones with similar commands as that of a PC.
>> What do you guys think?
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sociohack
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