NVDA gained support for Microsoft PowerPoint in 2013 and was updated in 2014 to support PowerPoint 2013 NVDA also added enhanced WAI-ARIA support that same year.
Throughout 2012, NVDA gained improved support for Windows 8, ability to perform automatic updates, included add-ons manager to manage third-party add-ons, gained improved support for entering East Asian text and introduced touchscreen support, the first of its kind for third-party screen readers for Windows. Major code restructuring to support third-party modules, coupled with basic support for Windows 8, became available in 2011. 2009 saw support for 64-bit versions of Windows as well as greater program stability in 2010. NVDA's features and popularity continued to grow.
To manage continued development of NVDA, Curran, along with James Teh, founded NV Access in 2007. Throughout 20, several versions of 0.6 appeared, featuring enhanced web browsing, support for more programs, braille display output, and improved support for more languages. Towards the end of 2006, Curran named his project Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) and released version 0.5 the following year. It provided support for Microsoft Windows 2000 onwards, and provided screen reading capabilities such as basic support for some third-party software and web browsing. 2 Features and accessibility API supportĬoncerned by the high cost of commercial screen readers, In April 2006, Michael Curran began writing a Python-based screen reader with Microsoft SAPI as its speech engine.It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. It currently works exclusively with accessibility APIs such as UI Automation, Microsoft Active Accessibility, IAccessible2 and the Java Access Bridge, rather than using specialized video drivers to "intercept" and interpret visual information. The project was started by Michael Curran in 2006. NonVisual Desktop Access ( NVDA) is a free and open-source, portable screen reader for Microsoft Windows.
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