Note: This is a piece about how I configure and use NVDA. For a more detailed guide on using this screen reader, see our NVDA tutorial.

• Install Nvda Screen Reader
• Free Nvda Screen Reader Download

NVDA addons are additional packages that can be downloaded and installed into your copy of NVDA; to enhance existing functionality, or to add additional features to your screen reader. (Just like scripts that may give extra functionality to the Jaws screen reader for a variety of tasks).

I spend a significant amount of time evaluating website accessibility and a large percentage of that time is spent using a screen reader. I have access to full versions of JAWS and Window-Eyes and while they are both capable screen readers, the screen reader I use most often is NVDA.

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• NVDA version 2018.3.2. The NVDA screen reader can be downloaded free of charge by anyone. We do this because we believe everyone, especially the world’s poorest blind people deserve access to computers and a way out of poverty.
• When many people think of web accessibility, they primarily imagine screen reader users. However, as the SOAP site demonstrates extensively, these are not the only users who have accessibility needs when using the web or online applications.

NVDA is:

• Lightweight: I am constantly turning my screen reader on and off, switching browsers, etc. I need a screen reader that can keep up with me. Other screen readers take too long to start up and tend to crash, especially JAWS.
• Free: I am not faulting companies that charge for their product, but it is much harder to justify the hefty price tag if you are using it for evaluation purposes only.
• Always up to date: Updates are regular and I have always found them seamless.
• Literal: Some screen readers will attempt to fill in accessibility gaps, for example, by guessing at a label for an unlabeled form control. NVDA does less of this. While you can argue the merit of one approach over another for the end user, this ‘literal’ presentation is excellent for accessibility evaluation.

Configuring NVDA

Install Nvda Screen Reader

I want my testing experience to be as ‘typical’ as possible, so I try not to configure my screen reader too heavily. However, I do make a few changes that I feel make the experience more pleasant and efficient without altering the information that is presented.

1. Preferences > Synthesizer and then Preferences > Voice Setting > Voice. The default synthesizer is not the easiest to understand, so the first thing I do is change the default voice. The voice I use is Microsoft Zira because I find it a natural sounding voice at lower speeds, but still understandable at higher speeds.
2. Preferences > Voice Settings > Rate. I typically hover around the 80-90, but it took me some time to be comfortable at that speed. I often change the rate based on the complexity of the webpage.
3. Preferences > Keyboard Settings
   1. If you are going to use a laptop, check 'Use CapsLock as an NVDA modifier key'.
   2. By default, NVDA reads every character as you type. I find this too distracting, so I uncheck 'Speak typed characters' and check 'Speak typed words'.
4. Tools > Manage add-ons > Get add-ons > Search for 'Focus Highlight'. The Focus Highlight add-on adds a rectangle on the element that you are currently reading or interacting with. I find this add-on extremely useful, especially when testing a site that does not have keyboard focus outlines.

Common Commands

Although NVDA contains dozens, or possibly even hundreds, of keyboard commands, I typically use fewer than 20. These are my go-to keyboard commands:

Update April 5: Added the ↑ and NVDA + ↑ commands

An Excellent Screen Reader

I admit that I am an NVDA fanboy. The work of Michael Curran, James Teh, and others on the NV Access team has benefited thousands of people worldwide, and helped raise the bar for all screen readers in the process. If you use Windows and test for web accessibility, it should be in your toolbox.

Screen readers are a form of assistive technology.

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Current screen readers[edit]

Unfinished Screenreader Projects[edit]

Discontinued and/or obsoleted screen readers[edit]

Free Nvda Screen Reader Download

Software aids for people with reading difficulties[edit]

• Automatik Text Reader from Davide Baldini (Firefox extension)
• BrowseAloud from Texthelp Systems Inc
• Capture Assistant from Renovation Software
• ClaroRead from Claro Software
• Claro ScreenRuler Suite from Claro Software
• ClickHear^[17] from gh LLC
• ClickHear Mobile^[18] from gh LLC
• ClipSpeak^[19] (last update: 2009) from Daniel Innala Ahlmark
• EasyTutor from Dolphin Computer Access
• EnVision: basic multi-featured Windows accessibility tool
• Kurzweil 1000 (for the visually impaired) and Kurzweil 3000-firefly (for those with reading or writing difficulty) from Kurzweil Educational Systems
• Penfriend from Penfriend Ltd
• Proloquo from AssistiveWare
• ReadHear^[20] from gh LLC
• ReadSpeaker from ReadSpeaker Holding B.V.
• Read & Write from TextHelp Systems
• ReadPlease from ReadPlease Corporation ^[21]
• Read:OutLoud from Don Johnston, Inc.
• Screen Reader from SourceBinary.com (no longer available, latest trial version can be obtained from other download sites)
• SodelsCot^[22] from Sodels Factory
• TextAloud from NextUp.com
• Ultra Hal TTS Reader from Zabaware, Inc.
• VoiceText from Neospeech, Inc.
• yRead from Spacejock Software

References[edit]

1. ^Bob Regan, Best Practices for Accessible Flash Design (PDF)Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^TalkBack: An Open Source Screenreader For Android
3. ^Talkbutton.net
4. ^Speakcomputers.com
5. ^https://www.webbie.org.uk/blog/end-of-the-thunder-screenreader/
6. ^Apple Accessibility
7. ^95Reader ver 6.0 product information page (in Japanese)
8. ^Wael Zakareya
9. ^Kenneth Frasse, GUI Access: A Comparison of Screen-Readers (Part I), Access Review (Summer 1997)
10. ^HT Visual price list (in Czech)
11. ^Leitor de telas has become freely downloadable from the homepage of the Ministry for Communication of Brasil (in Portuguese)
12. ^'Status of IBM a11y'. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
13. ^Lookout screen reader information page
14. ^Talks & Zooms product homepage
15. ^'Ai Squared And GW Micro Merge Forces'. Retrieved Apr 16, 2019.
16. ^'Breaking: VFO Group, owners of Freedom Scientific and Optelec, Acquires AI Squared'. Retrieved Apr 16, 2019.
17. ^ClickHear
18. ^ClickHear Mobile
19. ^Clipspeak.codeplex.com
20. ^ReadHear
21. ^Ross, Ian (1 May 2004). 'Software developer builds on artificial intelligence'. Northern Ontario Business. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018 – via Highbeam.Cite uses deprecated parameter dead-url= (help)
22. ^Sodels.com