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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Wed, Oct 23 2019 1:02AM
Subject: Query on Narrator enhancements & expectations
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Hello all, Greetings!

Curious to know the areas where Narrator screen reader gives a better user
experience over JAWS & NVDA for visually challenged. Also would like to
know where the Narrator is lagging when compared to JAWS & NVDA features.
Can someone please eloborate on this?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Venkatesh

From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Wed, Oct 23 2019 5:04AM
Subject: Re: Query on Narrator enhancements & expectations
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The only advantage I can think of is that it comes installed on the
computer. Since it was introduced, Narrator's value was only to help people
get through the initial setup process of windows, where JAWS/NVDA could be
installed. Now it feels like a person can use it for more than that. I hit
a few bumps along the way, but I didn't sit down and figure out if it was
an user error, browser, the website I was on, or a limitation of Narrator.

Ryan E. Benson

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 03:02 Vemaarapu Venkatesh <
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> Hello all, Greetings!
>
> Curious to know the areas where Narrator screen reader gives a better user
> experience over JAWS & NVDA for visually challenged. Also would like to
> know where the Narrator is lagging when compared to JAWS & NVDA features.
> Can someone please eloborate on this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Thanks,
> Venkatesh
> > > > >

From: Farough, David (CFP/PSC)
Date: Wed, Oct 23 2019 7:15AM
Subject: Re: Query on Narrator enhancements & expectations
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In Recent versions of windows, Narrator has been enhanced. These enhancements, as far as I know do not apply in earlier versions of Windows. Jaws and NVDA have kept up and work more consistently in newer and earlier versions of Windows.

From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: Wed, Oct 23 2019 11:38AM
Subject: Re: Query on Narrator enhancements & expectations
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Since the updates early this year, Narrator has become useful to me in some
situations. It works fairly well with the Edge browser, but of course, I
have to put up with the inconsistent performance of Edge. I can navigate
around complex pages at fidelity.com with headings, landmarks and custom
widgets.On the other hand, Narrator is laughably bad with Firefox and
Chrome. It usually works well with Word 2019 but seems inconsistent in large
tables It is barely usable with Outlook.
It is poor at reading PDFs in Acrobat or edge . Occasionally, I have opened
PDFs in Word and managed to read them.
The biggest disappointment for me is that it works inconsistently in MS
Visual Studio Community 2019. For example, it won't read a line of code that
has no spaces in front of the text.

Jeff G


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In Recent versions of windows, Narrator has been enhanced. These
enhancements, as far as I know do not apply in earlier versions of Windows.
Jaws and NVDA have kept up and work more consistently in newer and earlier
versions of Windows.
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