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
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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