And you can get much better voices than the defaults for NVDA.
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----- 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