Category: Geeks r Us
Hi all,
Does anyone use NVDA in the workplace? How is its support for Office short of doing all the basic tasks that home users would do? Are you able to interact with & produce feature-rich documents without any major issues? What do you think it's problems are?
Many thanks.
I myself have stuck with JAWS for high productivity purposes in MS Office. That said, I haven't used NVDA in the workplace for the past handful of releases, so I can't speak to whatever improvements may have been made.
I wouldn't use NVDA at work because it lags really bad, especially on my computer anyways. Also, everytime I go to fill out a complicated form online, I want to cry because stuff that JAWS ignores, NVDA reads, and it annoys the living hell out of me.
I find it interesting that you say it lags. NVDA is on all machines I have used quite quick.
The reason I ask is that I'm thinking of changing screen readers. NVDA looks to be able to do all the things that I need to do at home and can handle a lot of the more technical software I'll be needing to use at work. However, I've never really heard of anyone using it in a professional environment so I was wondering if realistically I would have to have something with better Office support installed as a standby but probably use NVDA 80 90% of the time. Thanks for everyones comments so far; like Willy I have never had a problem with lag.
Well, I said it happened specifically on my computer, and my other problem could be that I'm so used to JAWS...
Office support is quite good. I'd say just give it a try. I do like the way it handles the outlook calendar something that Jaws still struggles with in certain areas.
I find office support good. I think many people still use jaws in the workplace because you can pay for scripting to be done for specific pieces of software. But if you'll be using office pretty much exclusively I don't see why not.
NVDA isn't as good as Jaws, but it is very good and getting better. If you read the list of improvements that have been made to and since version 2014.3, that should help you make up your mmind. You presumably have a computer at home, so try using it for a day with NvDA instead of Jaws and see how you manage.
So here is the meat and taters of it all. Jaws handles specialized software like MS. Axxapta, Avaya's contact desktop express software better then NVDA. Yes I am using NVDA with scripts or add-in built by a coder in my work palce but certain areas NVDA refuses to scroll. Also, lets face some music here if yur job requires you to read pdf images on the fly and your using NVDA bend over, inset vibrater up rectom with out lube and consider yourself screwed. You want an honest anser I am giving you one front and center. lets talk about braille, my humanware brilliant display driver causes NVDA to free a lot of the time. Where is grade two input with NVDA? NO freeken where!. Lastly, I am an oler brail user, I do not care to read the new revised braille code, jaws allows this option, nvda screwed front and center.