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NVDA
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Diverse Learning Abilities and Challenge  
Screen Readers  

 Description

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications. It reads the text on the screen in a computerized voice. You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard.


 Features
  • 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
  • Support for many refreshable braille displays, including input of Braille via braille displays that have a braille keyboard
  • 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
  • Ability to run entirely from a USB flash drive or other portable media without the need for installation

 Limitations
  • Sometimes struggles with table-based content
  • Can take too long reading unnecessary information
  • Pre-included voice can be annoying

 Other Resources

1. NVDA Basics

2. Video: How NVDA helps people with Visual Disability


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