JAWS 2025

Product Type:
Screen reader

Areas of Application:
- Blindness
- Visually impaired

Description:
The JAWS (Job Access With Speech) screen reader enables blind and visually impaired people to access the PC. The screen content is output via speech output or a Braille display.

Features / components:
Features:
- special Internet functions such as: Navigation shortcuts, link and frame lists, a form mode and reading HTML tables
- Labels can be assigned or changed for both speech and Braille
- Speech synthesizer compatibility

Languages:
German, English (American and British), Finnish, French (French and Canadian),Italian, Spanish (Castilian and South American), Brazilian Portuguese

Speech output:
via common sound cards with integrated speech synthesis Eloquence
Other supported speech outputs:
Apollo 2, Braille'n Speak, DECtalk, Double Talk, FlexTalk, Juno, Keynote (PC, SA and PCMCIA), Infovox 500/700/220/230/330, Soundblaster with TextAssist, Speak and Win and others

Braille display compatibility:
- Braille monitor
- output on all commercially available Braille displays
- JAWS supports Braille displays from the following manufacturers:
- ALVA, Blazie,Engineering, Handy Tech, Tiemann (not all functions supported)
- Telesensory, Papenmeier (not all functions supported), BundM (not all functions supported)

Software compatibility:
- Windows startup functions controllable with speech output and Braille display
- network login possible
- programs can be started from the desktop
- use of taskbar and task manager possible
- automatic detection of empty data areas of an application
- access to context menu and elements of the system menu
- file management with Windows Explorer possible
- system messages are controllable System messages can be controlled
- enables the reading of PDF documents (including protected documents from Acrobat)
- supports MS Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox as well as other Internet programs
- supports all standard Windows programs and other common applications
- individual adaptation to different PC applications via scripts possible

Other:
- speaking installation process
- Instructions and help documentation available online, on data carrier and Braille

Price (without guarantee):
Prices are available on request from the manufacturer / distributor.