NVDA (Non visual desktop access) is a free and open source screen reader for Windows platform from NV Access. NVDA is also available as portable, you can copy it to a removable media and it can be run in any computer without installing.
NVDA provides many features as provided by paid screen readers. NVDA is a good alternative screen reader for JAWS and Window-Eyes. Some of the features of NVDA is, OCR (Optical character Recognision), Support for SAPI4 and SAPI 5 compatible TTSs and more. NVDA comes with ESpeak synthesizer as default, but you can buy lisence for Elequence TTS.
In Microsoft word and Excel, NVDA can now read the selected symbol when choosing symbols using the Insert Symbols dialog.
It is now possible to choose if content in documents should be identified as clickable via a new option in the Document Formatting settings dialog. This option is on by default in accordance with the previous behavior.
Support for braille displays connected via Bluetooth on a computer running the Widcomm Bluetooth Software.
When editing text in PowerPoint, hyperlinks are now reported.
When in ARIA applications or dialogs on the web, it is now possible to force NVDA to switch to browse mode with NVDA+space allowing document-style navigation of the application or dialog.
In Outlook Express / Windows Mail / Windows Live Mail, NVDA now reports if a message has an attachment or is flagged.
When navigating tables in accessible Java applications, row and column coordinates are now reported, including column and row headers if they exist.
Changes:
For Papenmeier braille displays, the move to flat review/focus command has been removed. Users can assign their own keys using the Input Gestures dialog.
NVDA now relies on the Microsoft VC runtime version 11, which means it can no longer be run on Operating systems older than Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.
Punctuation level Some will now speak star (*) and plus (+) characters.
Upgraded eSpeak to version 1.48.04 which includes many language fixes and fixes several crashes.
Beside these, there are number of bug fixes in this version. Click below link to read full release notes.
http://community.nvda-project.org/releaseChanges/nvda_2014.1_changes.html
NVDA provides many features as provided by paid screen readers. NVDA is a good alternative screen reader for JAWS and Window-Eyes. Some of the features of NVDA is, OCR (Optical character Recognision), Support for SAPI4 and SAPI 5 compatible TTSs and more. NVDA comes with ESpeak synthesizer as default, but you can buy lisence for Elequence TTS.
What's New in NVDA 2014.1?
Support for Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. Note that protected view is not supported.In Microsoft word and Excel, NVDA can now read the selected symbol when choosing symbols using the Insert Symbols dialog.
It is now possible to choose if content in documents should be identified as clickable via a new option in the Document Formatting settings dialog. This option is on by default in accordance with the previous behavior.
Support for braille displays connected via Bluetooth on a computer running the Widcomm Bluetooth Software.
When editing text in PowerPoint, hyperlinks are now reported.
When in ARIA applications or dialogs on the web, it is now possible to force NVDA to switch to browse mode with NVDA+space allowing document-style navigation of the application or dialog.
In Outlook Express / Windows Mail / Windows Live Mail, NVDA now reports if a message has an attachment or is flagged.
When navigating tables in accessible Java applications, row and column coordinates are now reported, including column and row headers if they exist.
Changes:
For Papenmeier braille displays, the move to flat review/focus command has been removed. Users can assign their own keys using the Input Gestures dialog.
NVDA now relies on the Microsoft VC runtime version 11, which means it can no longer be run on Operating systems older than Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.
Punctuation level Some will now speak star (*) and plus (+) characters.
Upgraded eSpeak to version 1.48.04 which includes many language fixes and fixes several crashes.
Beside these, there are number of bug fixes in this version. Click below link to read full release notes.
http://community.nvda-project.org/releaseChanges/nvda_2014.1_changes.html
Actually, you can buy a Vocalizer license, not Eloquence. It is illegal to use Eloquence in NVDA, although there are some add-ons that add this functionality.
ReplyDeleteThanks for correcting me. I'll be more careful in future.
Delete