Jaws

Manufacturer: Freedom Scientific
The most popular screen reading and brailing software for Windows. JAWS communicates through speech synthesizer and shows the text on a Braille monitor. Thanks to it a blind user can „see” both operational system and applications working under its control. JAWS Standard is compatible with Windows XP Home edition, Windows Vista Home basic and Home premium. With Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate cooperates JAWS Professional. You can buy Jaws with two actualisations (SMA) or without them, with authorization through the Internet ILM (by design) or with an authorization on hardware key USB (dongle). JAWS does not operate on Windows operational systems in 64 bit versions.

Description

What it is:

The most popular screen reading and brailing software for Windows. JAWS communicates through speech synthesizer and shows the text on a Braille monitor. Thanks to it a blind user can „see” both operational system and applications working under its control. JAWS Standard is compatible with Windows XP Home edition, Windows Vista Home basic and Home premium. With Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate cooperates JAWS Professional. You can buy Jaws with two actualizations (SMA) or without them, with authorization through the Internet ILM (by design) or with an authorization on hardware key USB (dongle).
JAWS does not operate on Windows operational systems in 64 bit versions.

What’s included:

You can buy Jaws with two actualizations (SMA) or without them, with authorization through the Internet ILM (by design) or with an authorization on hardware key USB (dongle). 

 

System Requirements

 

JAWS does not operate on Windows operational systems in 64 bit versions

JAWS Home Edition and JAWS Professional Windows® 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server® 2012, and Windows Server 2008
Processor speed Minimum 1.5 GHz processor
Memory (RAM) 4 GB recommended (64-bit)
2 GB recommended (32-bit)
Required hard disk space 20 MB to 690 MB required per voice for installing Vocalizer Expressive, Vocalizer Direct, or RealSpeak Solo Direct voices (file sizes will vary depending on the voice installed)
Video A display adapter capable of at least 800 x 600 screen resolution with 16-bit color (1024 x 768 screen resolution with 32-bit color recommended)
Sound Windows compatible sound card (for speech)