I agree with the earlier comment: NVDA and other screen readers are initially frustrating for those who are used to interacting with the computer primarily by using the mouse, i.e. those who are sighted.
There are improvements that myself and others can suggest, but they would not change the fact that persons who are totally blind, such as myself, must use keyboard commands to be efficient.
Thanks,
Fernando
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Apologies, I did not mean to imply that NVDA is more frustrating than Jaws and others. In fact, I much prefer it over Narrator and Jaws. I find that NVDA keyboard choices are more intuitive.
What I was trying to say, is that for persons who are not very fluent in the use of the keyboard, such as some older persons, the use of keyboard commands can be challenging.
I have suggestions that could be implemented as an NVDA add-on, but this is probably not the right forum to talk about that.
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Dear Fernando, Muthuraj and Sandy, it is great to read your
insightful informations and in prompted me to make the entry on
the ATPilot.
Here it is: Finding free assistive solutions-NVDA ORCA screen reader (https://thorsen.it/ATPilot/archives/2549)
It could also be a test of the functionality and satisfaction questionnaires (IPPA and QUEST). What do you think?
Some webpages have a readaloud function and I have worked on implementing it but I do not know if it is useful as I suspect people would be using their screenreader anyway. What do you think?
Thanks for your input.
Rune
Hi Rune,
In general people will have their own screen reader, Orca, NVDA or otherwise. I do not believe that screen reading capabilities and screen magnification capabilities integrated into the web page itself help very much. Any effort invested in that is probably better spent with the actual accessibility of the site, links, images, buttons, forms, etc.. But I expect you already took care of that long ago.
Best regards,
Fernando
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Dear Fernando, Muthuraj and Sandy, it is great to read your insightful informations and in prompted me to make the entry on the ATPilot.
Hello Rune,
Most screen reader users would use their screen reader of
choice. Mostly, overlays are more in the way than anything else.
Good design and WCAG standards would be deemed more critical in
considering issues when designing webpages.
Thanks.
Regards.
Hanif
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I had understood that the keyboard commands were the issue. If the TTS voice is the issue, then I can share that ATscale/UNOPS is interested in supporting the development of TTS voices for under-represented languages. They had a call for proposals in UNGM fairly recently.
For other languages there are already a number of free and open source voices, which have good quality. eSpeak, which is the default in NVDA is just what comes included. Other options exist, including voices that come with Windows itself.
Best regards,
Fernando
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