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NVDA: Free Screen Reader for Windows James Teh & Michael Curran Directors, NV Access Limited Lead developers of NVDA Who is NV Access? Australian non-profit organisation Develops the NVDA screen reader Funded through grants,


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NVDA: Free Screen Reader for Windows

James Teh & Michael Curran Directors, NV Access Limited Lead developers of NVDA

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Who is NV Access?

  • Australian non-profit organisation
  • Develops the NVDA screen reader
  • Funded through grants, contracts and

donations

  • Received support from Mozilla, Adobe,

Yahoo!, Microsoft

  • www.nvaccess.org
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What is NVDA?

  • NonVisual Desktop Access
  • Free, open source screen reader for

Microsoft Windows

  • Allows blind/vision impaired users to

access Windows

  • Allows user to "read the screen" via

synthetic speech/braille

  • Developed by users, for users
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NVDA Features

  • Zero cost!
  • Multilingual: translated into over 40

languages

  • Portability: can run entirely from a USB

drive

  • Regular, automatic updates
  • Supports Windows XP–Windows 8.1 (32

and 64 bit)

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Application Support

  • Office suites: Microsoft Office

Word/Excel/PowerPoint, IBM Lotus Symphony

  • Web/document browsers: Mozilla Firefox,

Microsoft Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader

  • Email clients: Mozilla Thunderbird,

Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express/Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail

  • Adobe Flash
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NVDA Features

  • Announcement of controls & content as the

system focus/cursor moves

  • Announcement of textual formatting; e.g.

font name/size, style, spelling errors

  • Announcement of text under the mouse
  • Independent object navigation and review
  • Support for touch screens
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How is NVDA Being Used?

  • By home users: email, news, music,

finance, shopping, social, etc.

  • By students: school and university
  • In the workplace, including By those who

are self-employed, particularly in IT

  • People on the go: public library computers,

Internet Cafes

  • Software and website accessibility testing;

e.g. Yahoo!, Microsoft

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Usage Statistics

  • Over 60,000 downloads in last3 months
  • Currently over 15,000 people on average

using NVDA each day, spanning 160 countries

  • WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #4

(2012) reports NVDA 2nd most used Windows Screen Reader

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Why is NVDA Good for Students?

  • It's free!

– Can have at home as early as possible – Can be installed on unlimited computers – Access to only certain school computers puts students at a disadvantage

  • Portability: carry and use anywhere
  • Consistency: same screen reader at home

and school

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Awards

  • 2007: Michael Curran: Australian National Disability

Award

  • 2009: Vision Australia "Making a Difference" award
  • 2009: Michael Curran: Vision Australia Youth

Service award

  • 2010: NVDA appeared on New Inventors Australian

Television show; won "Les is More Award“

– Presented "to an inventor whose invention might make a real difference to people's lives or the environment"

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Awards

  • 2011: James Teh: Special Excellence Award in

the 2011 QUT Outstanding Alumni Awards

  • 2011: Queensland Disability Action Week

Community Organisation - Disability Organisation Award

  • 2011: Federal Communications Commission

Chairman's Award for Advancement in Accessibility

  • 2011: James Teh: finalist for the Queensland

Young Australian of the Year Award

  • 2012: AFB Access Award
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Recent Developments

  • Support for Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Support for track changes in Microsoft

Word

  • Configuration profiles: different settings for

different situations

  • Updates to work with Microsoft Office 2013
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More Information

  • www.nvaccess.org