[vicsireland] Re: A free, open source, Windows desktop screen reader
- From: "Declan Meenagh" <dmeenagh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:43:53 +0000
I downloaded NVDA and played with it for half an hour. It is very good, but
I couldn't see a forms mode equivalent. Does anyone know if there is one in
it?
On 2/9/07, Flor Lynch <florlync@xxxxxx> wrote:
Information about a free, open source, Windows desktop screen reader can
be located at
http://www.nvaccess.org/nvda/
PLEASE read about it however before downloading or trying it. Although it
is still in development stage, the author, one Michael Curran, claims good
things for it. So, now it looks as if the gates of choice are beginning to
open, and the extensively steeled Gates of Bill et Microsoft and the
commercial screen reader companies are slowly being fenestrated, from the
bottom up. Thunder is another example, so now there are two known
'freebies'. Nothing at all is guarantted with NVDA, of course, but I
thought the information of interest to pass on in light of discussions and
plaints present past about the costs of good screen -reading programs.
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Declan Meenagh
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