Welcome to the Home of NVDA

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. Major features include support for over 35 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation. NVDA is developed by ?NV Access, with contributions from the community.

For more information about NVDA, including features and system requirements, visit the About section.

Check out the Download section if you would like to obtain a copy. Extra voices can also be downloaded for use with NVDA.

Need help with using NVDA? please visit our Support page for many useful links and resources including documentation, email lists, language-specific community pages, and 3rd party organisations offering NVDA training and support.

If you are interested in NVDA's development, including reporting bugs or feature requests, please see the Development section.

If you would like to support the project, please consider making a ?Donation to NV Access.

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Sponsors

Major sponsors of NV Access are ?Mozilla Corporation and ?Adobe Systems Inc who are enabling full-time development of NVDA. Past sponsors include ?Yahoo! Inc and ?Microsoft Corporation. Many thanks also go to all the individuals who have made financial donations.

Contact

If you have a question about NVDA or require technical support, please visit the Support page, which contains information about email lists, documentation, community resources and 3rd party support/training. For all other inquiries, please ?contact NV Access.

News

Keep up to date with the latest NVDA news including announcement of new releases.


NVDA 2012.3.1 Released

NVDA 2012.3.1 has just been released. This release includes updates and fixes to several translations. There are no functional changes.

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NVDA 2012.3 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2012.3. This release has been declared stable, which means it is suitable for production use and is recommended for most users.

This release includes around 30 new features and 50 bug fixes. Highlights include support for Asian character input; experimental support for touch screens on Windows 8; reporting of page numbers and improved support for tables in Adobe Reader; table navigation commands in focused table rows and Windows list-view c ...

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NVDA2012.3rc1 Released

NVDA 2012.3rc1 has just been released. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be almost identical to the final 2012.3 release.

Note that some translations may not yet be updated. They will be updated by the time of the final 2012.3 release.

Changes from beta3 to rc1:

  • Eliminated spurious double characters in Adobe Reader in some rare cases. (#2756)
  • Fixed an issue which caused certain add-ons which create temporary files (such as t ...

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NVDA 2012.3beta3 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2012.3beta3. It is intended for those who are interested in testing and evaluating the upcoming NVDA 2012.3 release, but is not recommended for production use. Testers are encouraged to report any bugs found while using this beta.

Note that some translations may not yet be updated. They will be updated by the time of the final 2012.3 release.

Highlights of this release include support for Asian character input; experimental support for t ...

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NVDA 2012.3beta1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2012.3beta1. It is intended for those who are interested in testing and evaluating the upcoming NVDA 2012.3 release, but is not recommended for production use. Testers are encouraged to report any bugs found while using this beta.

Note that some translations may not yet be updated. They will be updated by the time of the final 2012.3 release.

Highlights of this release include support for Asian character input; experimental support for t ...

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Come and See NVDA at Vision Australia's Texpo 2012

?NV Access will be demonstrating NVDA at ?Texpo 2012, an annual public event run by ?Vision Australia to showcase current technologies and services available for those who are blind and vision impaired in Australia. On August 24th and 25th in Melbourne, August 31st and September 1st in Sydney, and September 7th and 8th in Brisbane, you will get a chance to chat with the developers of ...

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High-Quality Voices Available for NVDA

NV Access is very happy to announce the availability of the Nuance Vocalizer range of voices for NVDA. These voices, which have proven to be popular on iPhones and the Mac, can now all be purchased for one affordable price for use with NVDA. Whether you use NVDA installed on one computer, or carry it around with you for access at anytime on a USB flash drive, these performant and high-quality voices will be there when you need them.

Purchasing Vocalizer today for 75 EUR gives you access to o ...

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NVDA 2012.2.1 Released

NVDA 2012.2.1 has just been released. This release addresses several potential security issues (by upgrading Python to 2.7.3). Upgrading is recommended.

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NVDA 2012.2 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that NVDA 2012.2 has been released. This release has been declared stable, which means it is suitable for production use and is recommended for most users.

Highlights of this release include an in-built installer and portable creation feature, automatic updates, easy management of new NVDA add-ons, announcement of graphics in Microsoft Word, support for Windows 8 Metro style apps, and several important bug fixes.

Note that NVDA is now distributed in one pac ...

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NVDA 2012.2rc2 Released

NVDA 2012.2rc2 has just been released. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be almost identical to the final 2012.2 release.

Note that some translations may not yet be updated. They will be updated by the time of the final 2012.2 release.

Changes from rc1 to rc2:

  • Updated translations.
  • Updated documentation.
  • Downloading updates no longer fails when installed on a system running Eset NOD32 HTTP Scanner. (#2352)
  • Creating a p ...

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