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With more than 285 million blind and vision impaired people in the world, the importance of accessibility will continue to grow. The task lies on us to work toward making all of our web pages and PDFs as accessible as possible so that screen readers can translate that message to its vision impaired audience. The University of Arkansas’ Center for Educational Access recommends using a screen reader called NVDA. Although many screen readers are quite expensive, NVDA provides a screen reader that is not only free but quite robust.

NVDA works with Microsoft Windows and can be downloaded to your PC, laptop or even to a USB as it only requires around 50 MB of space. This makes it easy and available for any user, especially students who may not have a personal computer and rely on computer labs. NVDA can even convert text into braille if the user owns a braille display. See a full list of features below.

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Here is a listing of the NVDA features:

• Free screen reader for computers running on the Windows operating system.
• Support for popular applications including web browsers, email, internet chatting, and office programs including Word and Excel.
• NVDA can be installed directly on to your computer, but it has the ability to run entirely from a USB stick or other portable medium.
• Built-in speech synthesizer for English and more than 43 other languages.
• Reporting of textual formatting where available, such as font name and size, style and spelling errors.
• Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position.
• Support for many refreshable braille displays.
• Easy to use talking installer.
• Support for common accessibility interfaces including Java Access Bridge.
• Support for Windows command prompt and console applications.

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So, how do you get NVDA? Just download NVDA to your device or a USB from the NVDA website. Once you have it downloaded, you can start testing your site’s accessibility with the tool by turning off your monitor.

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