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NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows
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NVDA should support mobile phones (windows mobile and symbian) #1181

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nvaccessAuto commented 14 years ago

Reported by RamboUdin on 2010-11-03 07:02 NVDA now suppprts touch devices, so why don't NVDA support mobile phone running these operating systems as well? That will be great!

nvaccessAuto commented 14 years ago

Comment 1 by allan on 2010-11-03 07:47 Hi, i dont say no to this suggestion, but i think NVDA developer still have their plate full with other task and commitment. Furthermore, to implement NVDA to another platform, they need to own such devices and tools for testing. So i think NVDA developers should concerntrate into improving current NVDA which still have long long way to go.

nvaccessAuto commented 13 years ago

Comment 2 by jteh on 2010-11-03 22:32 NVDA can't really be ported to these devices. A completely different screen reader would have to be written. This is because Python is probably not suitable for a screen reader on these devices due to higher resource usage and the like. Even if it could be ported, the work required would be huge and we don't have the resources to do this. Changes: Milestone changed from None to None Added labels: wontfix State: closed

nvaccessAuto commented 13 years ago

Comment 3 by KevanGC on 2010-11-07 05:59 what about the BlackBerry or Android?

nvaccessAuto commented 13 years ago

Comment 4 by jteh on 2010-11-07 06:13 Same answer applies for any mobile platform.

nvaccessAuto commented 11 years ago

Comment 5 by surfer0627 (in reply to comment 2) on 2013-09-05 09:18 Replying to jteh:

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NVDA can't really be ported to these devices. A completely different screen reader would have to be written. This is because Python is probably not suitable for a screen reader on these devices due to higher resource usage and the like. Even if it could be ported, the work required would be huge and we don't have the resources to do this.

nvaccessAuto commented 11 years ago

Comment 6 by nvdakor (in reply to comment 5) on 2013-09-05 15:15 Replying to surfer0627: Even then, I personally believe there's no need, as Android 4.0 and later includes improved Talkback, which has substantially improved features. WinMo is done, and the status of Blackberry is uncertain. Besides, most of these smartphones use ARM devices, so it'll not understand x86/x64 code at all, and tons of work has to be done to support new OS support layer (some have actually tried this with mixed success). Thus, I agree with jteh on this issue.