On the Mac, if an app gets stuck, that one app will report that it is "busy", but nothing else happens - you can use the rest of the system just fine. If an application got stuck, NVDA would be stuck as well.NVDA does a good job, but two things about it and Windows really annoyed me: I used NVDA for several years, off and on, and constantly (as in daily, for hours a day) for about a year, before I switched to the Mac.
Let's set aside the upgrade cycles of the two for a moment - that's a whole post unto itself. There is no better reader it's all down to personal preference.
I use nvda when I need to, but i'm happy the mac has Alex andother free voices. The amc has better sounding speech unless you want to pay for it from companies or you can get eloquence installed. In windows you have forms mode or whatever NVDA calls it, the mac you just type in fields so that is a little different in a good way. I am not sure but I thought quck nav might be a little weird behaving sometimes. I know about quick nav, but even though they came up with h heading v visited link, e for edit fields, windows it's just there, whereas you'd need to turn on quick nav feature. The mac, however thoughintuitive, isn't really because unless you've had an iPhone, even if you had, you're stuck holding down two keys.
NVDA is based off of jaws for windows, so if you can't aford the "better" screen reader, you can at least understand that even playing with a demo, you will have a very generic idea of how to useit. Ok before people flip, here's what I'm saying. So, any comparisons like that - things that annoy you about one or the other, places where one seems more efficient than the other, etc., would be great. In my brief experience playing with Voiceover, I felt like navigating between elements of a page (such as jumping from a sidebar or toolbar to a main content area) might be a little more clunky than I'm used to - but that could just be a lack of familiarity with the way things are laid out in OSX. Does one seem more efficient than the other? Which one do you find more seamlessly gets you where you need to go within various programs? Do you find that one hinders your productivity or gets in your way more? For example, when listening to podcasts of people using VO, I sometimes feel that it reports a lot of information that I'd find extraneous, which would be less efficient in the long run - but I had the same thought about NVDA, until I realized I could turn off things like reporting table position, etc.
Still, I'm interested in the thoughts of anyone who has used both screen readers heavily. I recognize that when you compare these two, it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison because they're for completely different operating systems. I was hoping to seek some thoughts on the comparison between screen readers - particularly the two free ones, NVDA for Windows and VO for Mac.
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