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Questions about screen readers (self.Blind)
submitted by sequinsedgown
So for the first time tonight, I attempted to make use of Microsoft's Narrator program and found it quite useless. As someone new to screen readers, what is the easiest program to start with? Browser compatibility is a necessity.
fastfinge 3 points 7y ago
NVDA from www.nvda-project.org is by far the best. On Windows, It's all I've used for the last 7 years.
Southpaw5000 3 points 7y ago
I agree! There's no reason for anyone to pay more than $1000 for a screen reader anymore!
lapingvino 2 points 7y ago
I think the best one you can start with is NVDA, an open source screen reader for Windows. I have configured this for several friends of mine. (If you use Linux, there is Orca). When I did customer support, other programs I encountered were Window-Eyes and of course JAWS. It seems not to be uncommon to have several installed to handle cases where one works and another not.
http://webaim.org/blog/resurgence-of-zoomtext-and-window-eyes/ also talks about ZoomText, which I don't remember to have seen in practice but seemingly is big too these days.
http://webaim.org/blog/resurgence-of-zoomtext-and-window-eyes/ also talks about ZoomText, which I don't remember to have seen in practice but seemingly is big too these days.
intrepidia 1 points 7y ago
Zoomtext uses speech augmentation to read content but doesn't navigate and read the structural elements of windows apps or web sites (i.e. form controls, the start menu etc)
lapingvino 1 points 7y ago
thanks, good to know. that's probably why I didn't hear of it before :)
Unuhi 1 points 7y ago
If you have have any Apple decpvices, you'll love VoiceOver. Very easy on iOS and AppleTV devices to get started.
Nighthawk321 1 points 7y ago
Definitely go with NVDA. Free and very easy to pick up.
johnnytai 1 points 7y ago
NVDA I think is by far the most affordable and still high performance screenreader I know of.
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