Accessible World

Presenter: Michael Curran, Australia. Email: mick@kulgan.net.
www.nvda-project.org
Presentation 1:
the Accessible World Tek Talk event focused on NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA), a free and open source screen reader for Microsoft Windows Created by Michael Curran, with help from James Teh and others. During the demonstration, you will learn how NVDA enables blind and vision impaired people to use their computers for no more cost than the computer and Operating System itself.
Providing feedback by synthetic speech, NVDA allows the user to access and interact with all parts of the Windows operating system, such as: Browsing the web (with Internet Explorer), Reading and writing documents with programs such as Wordpad or Microsoft Word, Sending and receiving email with Outlook Express, Using command-line programs in Dos windows, Producing basic spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, General computer management through My Computer / Windows Explorer, Control Panel applets, and other generic Windows tasks. NVDA allows the user to use other open-source software. NVDA Currently works with Miranda Instant Messenger, and has very extensive support for Mozilla Firefox. Although not open-source, NVDA also works quite well with the latest version of Skype.