Wątek: Screen Readers

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1 z 598: thespyde

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.

Charles Wells
17.11.2017 18:35

2 z 598: hozosch

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.


18.11.2017 13:35

3 z 598: thespyde

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.

Yay, go NVDA!

Charles Wells
18.11.2017 14:10

4 z 598: musicaljohn

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!
21.11.2017 13:27

5 z 598: thespyde

I don't mind my name being on here.

I meant what screen reader you're using, not what synth you're using on Elten, but all good.

Charles Wells
21.11.2017 16:16

6 z 598: Rob

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.


23.11.2017 07:22

7 z 598: hozosch

It only works if you have NVDA installed, not when you run it portably.


23.11.2017 09:36

8 z 598: thespyde

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'.

Charles Wells
23.11.2017 14:30

9 z 598: hozosch

I get weather plus as addon file. In fact, I am the german translator for it.


23.11.2017 14:40

10 z 598: thespyde

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.

Charles Wells
23.11.2017 15:09

11 z 598: hozosch

What the? Which version are you running?


23.11.2017 16:34

12 z 598: thespyde

4.6.7 I think, whatever the current version is. I've been having that issue for awhile now.

Charles Wells
23.11.2017 17:52

13 z 598: hozosch

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.


23.11.2017 21:46

14 z 598: thespyde

That's where I get it from, the add-on site itself. I go into the NVDA menu and tools and manage add-ons.

Charles Wells
23.11.2017 22:27

15 z 598: hozosch

And you get it as zip? That's very strange, for I get it as addon whenever I download it from there.


24.11.2017 14:28

16 z 598: thespyde

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.

Charles Wells
24.11.2017 14:30

17 z 598: Louisa

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.


02.12.2017 12:51

18 z 598: thespyde

Hmm, I don't have any problems with NVDA freezing on websites. Firefox has slowed down but that's only
temporary so I've heard.

Charles Wells
02.12.2017 14:00

19 z 598: Louisa

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.


02.12.2017 20:54

20 z 598: chrisstefanovski1

In firefox 59, everything will be like before. I'm using the nightly test version.


02.12.2017 21:36