NVDA tries to impliment the best of all worlds, so to speak, implimenting the most widely favored keystrokes for doing things with a screen reader. Users of comercial screen readers will imediately notice that NVDA is ran similar to JAWS and Window-Eyes. It can read tool tips, status bar information, and much more. It will work with all applications which use standard controlls. It works very well with most of the programs that come with windows, and many more. NVDA works by checking any controls and things like that on programs that are in focus, and attempting to grab any information that can be used to inform the user what the control is. NVDA cannot output to braille yet, but there are many people who are excited to get that to work, so braille support is likely to come somewhere down the road. You will be able to get NVDA to use other speech synthesizers as well, SAPI4 or SAPI5 namely. Users who have difficulty understanding ESpeak may find that it becomes easier for them after some extended use of it.Īs I said, NVDA uses ESpeak by default, it's installer speaks with it, and it will speak with it by default after installation. I find ESpeak just as easy to understand as IBM Via Voice or Eloquence for JAWS, and certainly easier to understand than most of the AT&T Natural Voices. I am rather on the deaf side, so I use hearing aids.
This is true, that it does, but there are also people who absalutely love ESpeak, such as myself. Many immediately exclaim that ESpeak sounds like a robot.
You can find out more information, or download a version that will work with other applications which can work with speech synthesizers atīecause ESpeak is such a small package, and because it's output is synthetic, ESpeak is among the most responsive speech synthesizers available today. NVDA has a very small and very responsive speech synthesizer built into it called ESpeak. The second component is often called a speech synthesizer.
One of these components is the software that finds out what's on the screen, and the other component is that which actually turns the information that the first component retrieves into audible speech. You can find out more information about NVAccess atĪ software screen reader needs two major components. The NVDA project is sponsered by NVAccess. NVDA stands for Nonvisual Desktop Access.
It is written in the Python Programing language, allowing those who actively develope NVDA to do so very rapidly.
NVDA is a very small program that can run on systems running Windows XP or Windows Vista, and it is ultra portable. A screen reader is, in this case, a software program that makes a computer talk, allowing blind or visually empaired people to use computers. NVDA is a free, open source screen reader. What is this documentation for, and how do I use it?.Click or press enter here to go back to help start.NVDA HTML Help in English - What is NVDA?