Darrell Hilliker 👨🦯♾️📡I'm starting day three without #JAWS on my new job. While JAWS is sitting there worrying about its missing authorization code and telling me I have to restart and work in 40-minute mode, #NVDA is humming along giving me exactly what I need to keep working! So now we ask which is the truly professional screen reader? #accessibility #Vispero
Vsevolod Popov@darrell73 That is interesting. I heard that in Europe and US JAWS license is provided for work places and for students. Are you simply used to JAWS or there are specific cases where NVDA doesn't really work in software you use? Great that NVDA works for you!
Nikolett Till@Sevapopov @darrell73 I wouldn't say it's provided, because it's not given for free except for a few countries, including Hungary. Here our government supports blind people by providing free licenses to those who apply for it with a hungarian ID. But at work I suppose you have to use either your own license, or the company buys it for you. The problem is that a lot of european companies disallow using NVDA so those who aren't used to Jaws, have to suffer.
@destranis @Sevapopov Here in the US JAWS is typically provided by a K-12 educational institution like a school for children or Vocational Rehabilitation for adults seeking employment or business ownership. We do OK for children but not well at all for adults not seeking employment. No employment goal means no VR and no JAWS. Fortunately we have NVDA on Windows and its free. Lots to unpack here and all this to say it's no bed of roses even here in the USA.
@darrell73 @Sevapopov And is it generally allowed in the USA to use NVDA for work purposes?
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