The name NVDA stands for NonVisual Desktop Access. NVDA was created in order to be an open source screen reader for your operating system.
Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. Major features include support for over 20 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation.
What's New in This Release:
New Features:
· NVDA can announce the number of leading tabs and spaces of the current line in the order that they are entered. This can be enabled by selecting report line indentation in the document formatting dialogue.
· NVDA can now detect key presses generated from alternative keyboard input emulation such as on-screen keyboards and speech recognition software.
· NVDA can now detect colors in Windows command consoles.
· Bold, italic and underline are now indicated in braille using signs appropriate to the configured translation table.
Much more information is now reported in Microsoft Word documents, including:
· Inline information such as footnote and endnote numbers, heading levels, the existance of comments, table nesting levels, links, and text color;
· Reporting when entering document sections such as the comments story, footnotes and endnotes stories, and header and footer stories.
· Braille now indicates selected text using dots 7 and 8. (#889)
· Braille now reports information about ...