Product Type:
Screenreader
Areas of Application:
- Blindness
- Visual Impairment
Description:
The NVDA screenreader converts screen content to speech or outputs it to a Braille line. Blind and many visually impaired people cannot perceive the content of the visual user interface (GUI). Therefore, they need a bridge that converts the GUI content into a form they can use - that's what the screen reader does. NVDA is an open source screen reader for Windows and is available for free. NVDA is portable - that is, the blind person can put their screen reader on a USB stick or CD-ROM, go to the internet cafe with it, and just surf the web.
Features / Components:
- Supports popular programs such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, email clients, internet chat software, and Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Built-in speech synthesis supports more than 50 languages, plus third-party voices.
- Outputs text formatting such as size and font
- Automatically reads text aloud under mouse pointing as well as mouse position indication.
- Support for all common Braille output devices.
- Can be run from USB stick without installation.
- Easy to use talking installer.
- Supports Windows logon screen and other screen content for authentication.
- Touchscreen support.
Technical Data:
Operating System: All 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions from Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2
Processor: 1 ghz or higher
RAM: 256 MB or more
Memory: 90 MB
Price (without guarantee):
The product is open source and available for free.
