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Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:33:23 -0600
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well, there are only about 30 different choices by default lol.
Steer me in the right direction though because I dislike all of them.
Does NVDA support elequence? because for better or worse, I'm used to it and 
I like it.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:28 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Surface Pro 3 accessability

> And you can get much better voices than the defaults for NVDA.
> Lou Kolb
> Voice-over Artist:
> Radio/TV Ads, Video narrations
> Messages On-hold:
> www.loukolb.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 10:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Surface Pro 3 accessability
>
>
>> I, in fact, just downloaded NVDA to my PC to check it out, and while it's
>> a
>> tiny bit clunky out of the box, it's quite good considering it's a free
>> screen reader.
>> I'm quite sure that the more I become familiar with the various settings 
>> I
>> will be able to customize it to my needs and wants and it'll be as good 
>> as
>> JFW for doing most things.  It does work with some of the apps that I
>> thought it might not work with...and it certainly doesn't work with some
>> of
>> the apps that JFW doesn't work with as well.
>> So, if I am understanding this correctly, any tablit or surface or
>> whatever
>> that is running windows 8 can be made accessible with NVDA...this is
>> excellent because I've avoided  these things thinking they wouldn't
>> support
>> a screen reader...holds true for the windows8 phones as well hopefully?
>>
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 7:12 PM
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Surface Pro 3 accessability
>>
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> That's all well and good but how accessible is it to us who require a
>>> screen reader(
>>> Can you install a windows screen reader on it pushing the cost to an
>>> additional thousand  bucks?
>>>
>>> 73:
>>> Mike VO1AX 

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