What screen readers are you all using

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Akula (Newborn Zoner) on Wednesday, 29-Feb-2012 20:20:54

I use Zoom text

Post 2 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 0:51:34

Jaws 13

Post 3 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 3:46:29

jaws 12 here

Post 4 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 8:30:45

jaws12 or 13, with nvda as a backup.

Bob

Post 5 by Twinklestar09 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 8:57:09

I use NVDA at home, and SAToGo when using the computers at school. I also occasionally use JAWS 13 (or really just the latest version of JAWS since I use it in demo mode). I mainly use JAWS now for the OCR feature and if NVDA or SAToGo doesn't read certain things. But my primary screenreader is NVDA.

Post 6 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 8:58:00

Never used NVDA before.
I've heard of it though.

Post 7 by Dave_H (the boringest guy you'll ever know) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 11:18:59

Using orca on Trisquel 5.0 GNU/Linux .

Post 8 by midnight sun (you can't catch me, i'm the palobread man) on Thursday, 01-Mar-2012 16:06:33

jaws 12, NVDA started as a backup but it's slowly replacing jaws, with eloquence voice because espeak poisons my ears, i just can't read or rpg with that voice.

Post 9 by Akula (Newborn Zoner) on Saturday, 03-Mar-2012 18:37:25

There are problems I run into when I am using Zoom text 9.1 alot of the time it doesnt read text boxes whats in a dialog box and combo boxes dont even work.
Do you all have these problems with different screen readers

Post 10 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 03-Mar-2012 19:36:38

Jaws 13.

Post 11 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Saturday, 03-Mar-2012 20:00:12

Jaws 13 here, and NVDA when Jaws decides to be a stubborn turd and crash at the most inoppurtune times...

Post 12 by Toonhead71 (move over school!) on Saturday, 03-Mar-2012 20:02:09

window-eyes 7.5.3. It doesn't have any OCR features like JAWS but by god this thing is solid! Does exactly what I need it to, and nothing I don't.

Post 13 by Simon (Veteran Zoner) on Wednesday, 07-Mar-2012 23:08:38

NVDA full tme. A bit more complex than JAWS but, in all honesty, there is very little it can't do. JAWS is the backup I never bother using, unless I need tandem.

Post 14 by Dana (Veteran Zoner) on Thursday, 08-Mar-2012 2:54:55

Window-Eyes 7.5 with NVDA for backup on windows and, VoiceOver on the mac.

Post 15 by rusty81 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 08-Mar-2012 3:09:15

I use voice over on the mac and jaws 11 in windows, and sometimes I use NVDA portable as a back-up.

Post 16 by louisa (move over school!) on Thursday, 08-Mar-2012 5:53:22

I use jaws.

Post 17 by little foot (Zone BBS is my Life) on Friday, 09-Mar-2012 7:07:08

I use the mck there for it comes with voice over.;

Post 18 by little foot (Zone BBS is my Life) on Friday, 09-Mar-2012 7:08:17

I use the mack witch already has voice over in it.

Post 19 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Friday, 09-Mar-2012 9:52:26

At work Jaws is my primary and while doing installations on client's computers NVDA portable the new beta so I don't have to install a screen reader.

Post 20 by Leafs Fan (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Friday, 09-Mar-2012 11:57:35

I use JAWS 12 and am starting to play with NVDA a bit. I didn't think NVDA could work with Eloquence so I am glad to read otherwise. ESpeak is awful, particularly bad in French. I have always been fond of JAWS, but its tendency to crash and hog memory has me looking into NVDA as a backup option.

Post 21 by Lisa's Girl forever (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Monday, 12-Mar-2012 6:53:41

i use my mac. with voice over. all of the time.
but some times i'll use jaws on a windows computer.

Post 22 by illumination (Darkness is history.) on Monday, 12-Mar-2012 16:08:08

Window Eyes 7.5.3 here.

Post 23 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Wednesday, 14-Mar-2012 19:45:29

I'm gradually transitioning to voiceover, but when I have to run windows-based things, I use JAWS on the laptop. Using Safari can be a pain in the neck sometimes especially as I feel like I have to constantly scroll through stuff, but I'm learning my way around the mac the more I use it.

Post 24 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Thursday, 15-Mar-2012 11:52:01

Ahh! give Google chrome a try. It's fast and works for most things.

Post 25 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 05-Apr-2012 7:29:47

I am using:
jaws for windows 11 (school computers)
voice over (my mac)
jaws 13, pirated version (my virtual machine)

Post 26 by starfly (99956) on Thursday, 05-Apr-2012 13:55:34

I am using Jaws for home and work and on my moble device moble accessibility and currently bayta testing the latest talkback that has not made it to google play, so far it looks very promising. Talkback will even tell you if a item is unlabled that is more then I cansay for moble accesssibility.

Post 27 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 05-Apr-2012 18:26:17

Jaws 10. I see no good reason to upgrade at the moment. Also, in my 14 years of using windows, I've never found a synth that's clearer than Eloquence.

Post 28 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Friday, 06-Apr-2012 22:32:37

Or more responsive, although Espeak is a close second. RealSpeak, while a bit more human sounding, lags too much, which is why I won't use it.

Post 29 by roxtar (move over school!) on Saturday, 07-Apr-2012 2:23:09

I'm using jaws 13, but thinking about giving nvda a spin soon.
I've heard all these good things, i should try it out soon.

Post 30 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 19-Apr-2012 11:18:12

I'm using mobile speak on my phone, too. I do use NVDA sometimes, when jaws crashes for example.