Included with the setup is a large library of different voices to customize the experience. Just place your mouse over the text and it will read back what it says.

Namely, the text reader text-to-speech tool with a synthetic voice to read out what's on the screen. With the idea that visually impaired people have different needs, NVDA was designed with a number of features to help out in day-to-day usage of a Windows PC. The general idea of this program is to offer solutions to users who are unable to read text on the screen. NVDA is a free screen reader application and voice synthesis tool designed for people that are visually impaired. This includes Basic Training, all our Microsoft Office training, and telephone support.A screen reader app for assisting the visually disabled. Start with the popular Basic Training for NVDA in electronic text, audio and braille. We also have a range of training material in the NV Access Shop to help you increase your skills with NVDA. Contributions like yours help NV Access continue our important work. While downloading NVDA, please consider becoming a monthly donor. This is the first thing to try if you do notice anything odd after updating. This can lead to instability and strange behaviour which is resolved by rebooting.

Updating software can change files which are in use. Restart by going to the Shutdown dialog, selecting “restart” and pressing ENTER. Please note, after updating any software, it is a good idea to restart the computer.

This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2021.3.5 and earlier.

There are also various Windows 11 bug fixes, for apps such as Calculator, Console, Terminal, Mail and Emoji Panel.ĮSpeak-NG and LibLouis have been updated, adding new Japanese, German and Catalan tables.

There are improvements to braille display drivers including Seika Notetaker, Papenmeier and HID Braille. This provides a significant performance improvement over the old Object model access. This release includes major improvements to UIA support with MS Office.įor Microsoft Office 0 and higher on Windows 11, NVDA will use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word documents by default. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2022.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download.

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