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Re: Is WebAnywhere a good simulation?

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From: Tania
Date: Sep 9, 2010 8:00PM

1

The speech quality of webanywhere is equivalent to jaws. However, it does
not have the same range of functionality of a screenreader.



2

Are you allowed to stick a pen drive into a USB drive and run an application
from there? If you do, then you can use the portable version of NVDA. It
does not install anything on the client's computer as it is run from the pen
drive.



Just download NVDA file and send it to the pen drive. Unpack the file from
within the pen drive. To activate, click NVDA.exe and it will start speaking
after a while. It works a bit slower than the installed version.

Regards

Tania

Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is WebAnywhere a good simulation?


>> -----Original Message-----
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>> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Tania
>> Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2010 2:21 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Is WebAnywhere a good simulation?
>>
>> web anywhere doesn't really work the same way as a real screenreader.
> NVDA
>> is a better choice.
>>
>
> Thanks. I've verified that it doesn't "work" as a screen reader, but
> does it:
>
> * sound like a screen reader?
>
> * process the HTML like a screen reader?
>
> bearing in mind that I can't use NVDA to illustrate the experience in my
> presentations.
>
> Kerry
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