NVDA
A fast, functional free screen reader
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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What is NVDA?
NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications.
Major highlights include:
* Support for popular applications including web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, email clients, internet chat software, music players, and office programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel
* Built-in speech synthesizer supporting over 50 languages, plus support for many other 3rd party voices
* Reporting of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors
* Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position
* Support for many refreshable braille displays, including input of Braille via braille displays that have a braille keyboard
* Ability to run entirely from a USB flash drive or other portable media without the need for installation
* Easy to use talking installer
* Translated into more than 50 languages
* Support for modern Windows Operating Systems including both 32 and 64 bit variants
* Ability to run on Windows logon and other secure screens
* Announcing controls and text while interacting with gestures on touch screens
Major highlights include:
* Support for popular applications including web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, email clients, internet chat software, music players, and office programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel
* Built-in speech synthesizer supporting over 50 languages, plus support for many other 3rd party voices
* Reporting of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors
* Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position
* Support for many refreshable braille displays, including input of Braille via braille displays that have a braille keyboard
* Ability to run entirely from a USB flash drive or other portable media without the need for installation
* Easy to use talking installer
* Translated into more than 50 languages
* Support for modern Windows Operating Systems including both 32 and 64 bit variants
* Ability to run on Windows logon and other secure screens
* Announcing controls and text while interacting with gestures on touch screens
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Ease of use (learning curve is fairly low for baseline use), universal functions. No problems installing or navigating
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- Accessibility
- screen-reader
- braille
NVDA
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about NVDA, and it has gotten 8 likes
- Developed by NV Access
- Open Source and Free product.
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- jamesjordan liked NVDAja10 months ago
- Guest Upvoted a comment on NVDAGuQuite easy to use and free. Perhaps it is not the most powerful and well-known solution (that goes to Window-Eyes and JAWS) but if you need something to start with immediately, try this.almost 2 years ago
- leissaam1 liked NVDAleabout 2 years ago
Quite easy to use and free. Perhaps it is not the most powerful and well-known solution (that goes to Window-Eyes and JAWS) but if you need something to start with immediately, try this.