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Very impressed with the new Split #Braille Feature in #JAWS. Being able to read Teams chat with half my display whilst typing someplace else is tremendous. They seem to have well thought out the different modes and views. Shame about the cells wasted with the split and lack of customisability of the viewport widths. If I won the lottery I'd throw a few hundred k at #NVDASR for comparable #BrailleDisplay development
#nvdasr #braille #jaws #brailledisplay

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Tamas G
Tamas G
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I have the same feeling for when I use Split Braille at work, it's become quite useful for splitting work between meeting chats / another document, sadly a new reason I've lately been switching to JFW during meetings.
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Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
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@Tamasg I wonder if the Braille Extender add-on could do something like this for NVDA.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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That said, updating #JAWS is still a pain. It's ridiculous that the US has had such a cheap way of using JAWS at home for over half a decade now and the rest of the world pays stupid prices or has to buy at very specific times of the year which you only know about if you're quite involved in the community,
And I'm still sad that workplace adjustments are still hugely JAWS driven, when NVDA Addon development should really have made this much more of an open thing.
Hey ho, it's all about the choice I suppose and that's a good thing. Hopefully screen readers will keep enspiring each other to new things.
#jaws
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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The "JAWS in the workplace" thing is also very country-specific. It seems to be more common in places where strong accessibility laws exist and employees can get funding for scripts. This is not the case here, for example, and almost nobody uses JAWS. I know people here who work in large companies, including banks and such, and NVDA is just fine.
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Carlos Blanco
Carlos Blanco
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Before I went back to work I was a full time nvda user. However, is it wrong to say that if I ever get a windows pc, I'd happely pay for an anual jaws subscription?
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@cublanco pretty much in the same boat, although I get JAWS for free as part of the Hungarian blind citizen's program that gives it out there to qualifying people. It's a timed license that gets renewed for 2 years at a time by the contract though. Work has mostly made me get JAWS again for home just in case I need one of the same tools that can make my job a bit more productive that NVDA doesn't have.
@Carlos Blanco
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@Tamasg @cublanco I spent a whole month writing research it rulesets I couldn't ever reuse, either. I wish there was a cross-compatible tool for snipping data out of web pages by rule like that. XPath was really clever at it.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@cublanco oh yeah, the webpage customization features are terrific. (I also haven't quite figured out on all my sites why certain regions are considered a "glance" area, but the method JAWS has for identifying those I would welcome in NVDA too.) It's those slight pamperings that do add up in time you spend doing it manually
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Carlos Blanco
Carlos Blanco
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@Tamasg The thing that gets me, is someone thought that I needed three hours of relearning how to use JFW, when it only took me at least, five minutes? Mind you, the last version I used was 12 at home.
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