Product Type:
Screenreader
Areas of Application:
- Blindness
- Visually impaired
Description:
The NVDA screen reader converts screen content into speech or displays it on a Braille display. Blind and many visually impaired people cannot perceive the content of the visual user interface (GUI). They therefore need a bridge that converts the content of the GUI into a form that they can use - this is what the screen reader does. NVDA is an open source screen reader for Windows and is available free of charge. NVDA is portable - this means that the blind person can put their screen reader on a USB stick or CD-ROM, take it to an Internet café and simply 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.
- The built-in speech synthesis supports more than 50 languages, and voices from other providers are also supported.
- Output of text formatting such as size and font
- Automatic reading aloud of text under the mouse pointer and indication of the mouse position.
- Supports all common Braille output devices.
- Can be started from USB stick without installation.
- Easy to use talking installation program.
- Supports Windows logon screen and other screen contents for authentication.
- Supports touch screens Supports touch screens.
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 free of charge.
