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Just curious, do windows screen readers (jaws, NVDA, window eyes) read emojis? (self.Blind)
submitted by RJHand
So i'm more curious than anything. I've mostly moved away from windows and now entirely use apple, mac and IPhone. But do windows screen readers read emojis? Not just smiley and that but things like if I were to put a 🎉 does it say party popper? Or nothing at all? Because the apple voiceover on any device does, on any piece of text whether its an email, text, or on a webpage. Was just curious if its the same with jaws and or NVDA or if its apple exclusive. Jaws 12 which for some reason is the version I still have does not seem to but maybe that's changed in the versions since?
quanin 7 points 4y ago
JAWS 12 won't, because when JAWS 12 was around people didn't even know what an emoji was. But yes, later versions of JAWS and NVDA will read it (Window Eyes is no longer developed). I have 2019 and the only thing I'd like is the ability to switch emojis off on certain applications, because oh my good god enough already.
RJHand [OP] 1 points 4y ago
Can you insert them too? Is there an addon for that? Or do you even need one? I don't think its possible with the numpad is it?
quanin 3 points 4y ago
I think, but don't quote me, NVDA has an emoji add-on or 6. Not free, though, AFAIK. JAWS doesn't directly have a way to insert emojis, but if you're on Win10 it'll readh the emoji panel. I don't know what people not on Win10 do for emojis, on the not entirely unreasonable grounds that I rarely use them.
pitermach 3 points 4y ago
NVDA and narrator read all emoji. Jaws reads most of the popular ones but is dictionary isn’t up to date. For inserting, windows 10 has a emoji panel which can be searched and categorized like iOS or Mac OS. Not sure how you'd go about it in older versions of window's. I think chrome also has an emoji panel.
bscross32 3 points 4y ago
NVDA has gained the ability to do this recently. It is now part of core rather than relying on an addon at this point.
Superfreq2 2 points 4y ago
NVDA can now read allot of them but yes, it still relies on the emoticons addon for insertion which is still quite out of date.
JAWS can read far, far fewer, and Window Eyes is no longer a player in the market.
I wonder how narrator on Win 10 does? I don't have Win 10 so I can't test it.
JAWS can read far, far fewer, and Window Eyes is no longer a player in the market.
I wonder how narrator on Win 10 does? I don't have Win 10 so I can't test it.
modulus 2 points 4y ago
NVDA has support. There's an emoji insert add-on but it doesn't have all of them--to be fair there are so many.
It is technically possible, I think, to enter an emoji through its UTF codepoint, but that sounds like a tremendous pain in the butt.
It is technically possible, I think, to enter an emoji through its UTF codepoint, but that sounds like a tremendous pain in the butt.
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