Hey guys, as someone who doesn't actually use a screen reader except to test games, it took me a while to understand why people have preferences for specific screen readers. When you're only using them to hear spoken text, which is what I was doing, they are all pretty much the same. The real difference seems to be, how they are controlled. I'm not sure if anyone has wondered this in the past, buy why can't something free, like NVDA, be set up to behave exactly! like Jaws? If the key commands were all identical, wouldn't that allow Jaws users to feel comfortable using NVDA, or NVDA users to switch over to Jaws (if done in reverse)?
If there is some reason that this wouldn't work, I'd be curious to know. If it only required changing over the key assignments, I think it could be very valuable to have a converter tool that would take a new screen reader and make it behave exactly like your current one. Many people here, already seem to jump back and forth between 2 screen readers so that they can use games which only support one of them. I think a tool like this would give everyone that same freedom, and actually quite a bit more.