Hi Hettie, You can go to http://www.ninite.com and download either open office, or libre office.  Both have word processors, are free of charge and work with NVDA. If you are just looking for a

How odd, I remember word pad had a spell checker at one time, but that was way back in 2005 when I was using a different system. I'm used to the ribbon now, but still love jarte as it can d a lot I

Maybe, maybe not. First. Wordpad uses ribbons, starting with the Windows 7 version. The person may not be comfortable using ribbons. Second, Wordpad is a really bare bones word processor, not even

Hello, There is a separate application called notepad++ which has additional functionality and is frequently updated. Some of its features include support for various line endings, various

Wordpad does open many document formats but it doesn't have a spell checcker. JARTE is built on Wordpad and it has a spell checker and more features than just Wordpad. I havedn't used it much and I

I'm afraid, Hettie, that you might not find Softmaker, especially the spreadsheet portion, as accessible as you might need. Please let us know how it works for you. -- Subscribe to a WordPress for

I use jarte and it works great for me.

Nop, not yet. Next version will have one demo period... Best regards, Rui Fontes Tiflotecnia, Lda. Às 16:18 de 29/06/2020, luke scholey escreveu:

I did the same last week.  Still no response.

Hi all Does anyone know if it is possible to trial this before buying? I’ve emailed the address on the vocalizer-nvda.com website but no response? Any other ideas? Thanks Luke

Hi Brian and all the "faster than lightning" replies. Think I will try SoftMaker as it has a wordprocessor as well as a spread sheet section. I prefer one app for all instead of

I use jarte as well. Be aware though when you launch it you will hear "jarte plus." this is normal. You are getting the plus version which is free with a lot of limitation. For example the auto

You actually have one on your computer. It's called wordpad. Go to run and type "wordpad" sand quotes, and there you go, it should work out for you. -- Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. . For more info

Do you now that WordPad opens rtf, docx, odt, txt? *.doc, opens but they get some garbish in beginnig and end of document... Rui Fontes Às 15:15 de

True about WordPad, which I'd forgotten all about. Even so, the probability of needing to be able to at least read other word processing file types or PDFs, even if you're not generating them, makes a

For RTF you do not need to download nothing... Use WordPad. It is native from Windows... Rui Fontes Às 14:47 de 29/06/2020, Hettie escreveu:

LibreOffice Writer will work. I also suspect that SoftMaker Free Office will do just fine, but have not done any accessibility testing with it (if anyone else knows for sure, please share). I don't

There is something called Jarte which I haven't used personally but it is highly recommended by the folks at NVAccess (https://www.jarte.com/).

I don't need all the functions of MS-Word or Excel.  are there free substitutes apps compatible with NVDA I can download? Thanks Hettie -- This email has been checked for viruses by

Gene, I am not sure about this, cause Facebook had been altering its design this or last month, which IE may have bben working well with the old site, but not the current site.