Overview
JAWS Home – Perpetual Licence
JAWS, Job Access With Speech, is the world’s most popular screen reader, developed for computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content or navigating with a mouse. JAWS provides speech and Braille output for the most popular computer applications on your PC. You will be able to navigate the Internet, write a document, read an email and create presentations from your office, remote desktop, or from home.
Overview:
The Worlds Most Popular Windows Screen Reader What is a screen reader? A screen reader is a software program that enables a blind or visually impaired user to read the text that is displayed on the computer screen with a speech synthesizer or braille display. JAWS, Job Access With Speech, is the world’s most popular screen reader, developed for computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content or navigating with a mouse. JAWS provides speech and braille output for the most popular computer applications on your PC..
- Read documents. emails, websites and apps
- Easily navigate with your mouse
- Scan and read all of your documents, including PDF
- Fill out webforms with ease
- Easy to use with Daisy formatted basic training
- Save time with Skim Reading and Text Analyzer
- Surf the net with web browsing keystrokes
JAWS System Recommendations
To use JAWS for Windows, we recommend a personal computer running Microsoft® Windows® with the following:
| Description | Specification |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Windows® 11, Windows 10, Windows Server® 2025, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016. JAWS supports the x64 architecture for all operating systems. JAWS provides additional support for the ARM64 architecture on Windows 11 operating systems. |
| Processor speed | Recommended: 2.0 GHz i5 dual core or higher processor. |
| Memory (RAM) | Recommended: 16 GB or more. |
| Required hard disk space | 2 GB with more space required for additional voices. Recommended: SSD drive. |
| Video | Video/Graphics card with support for DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver. 1024×768 display resolution. |
| Sound | Windows-compatible sound card (for speech). |