grudging respect for narrator, but…

By honest nan, 4 May, 2025

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I have used jaws at work for years. The other day, I did something really dumb and managed to delete Jaws from my computer. Getting it back will take a while, because they need to try to find the license number. Meanwhile, I decided, after beating myself up for a while, to try narrator. at first, it acted like a three year-old who would obey only if it wanted to. The next day, it started acting more grown up, but I am still having trouble with some of the commands. When I go to my. bookmarks in chrome, I cannot type the first letter of the book Mark I am looking for. I have to arrow down through the choices, and even sometimes that doesn’t work. I am also having a little trouble with the address book in Outlook. With Jaws, after I pulled up a name, I could go into Jaws cursor and move through the line word by word. I can’t find a way to do that in narrator, which probably makes sense. but, I wish it were available. Any tips or suggestions would really be helpful. Thanks.

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By Brad on Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 02:23

You can also make it sound like eloquence if you like, you'll have to look into it though because it's not exactly legal.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 03:08

Narrator is this little thing that you forget until you really need and depending on what you need it for 9/10 times it works surprisingly well, well except for command line stuff where even chromevox is better.
When my hp laptop started to have weird issues everywhere and I haven't still reset it yet as I have my mac I used narrator for excel and it worked like a charm.

By SeasonKing on Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 07:51

Not even NVDA or Jaws support the kind of support Narrator for touch gestures. I can't figure out how to scrolle down or up on webpages with NVDA or Jaws, with narrator however, it's delightfully smartphone like experience.
I can't wait to get my hands on a Surface tablet, and see how Narrator feels with that Touchscreen and arm powered processer.