Missouri State Web developer, Kyle Borah walks us through how to install and use the screen reader, NVDA. The demonstration includes how to use NVDA to read a web page to test for accessibility.
Kyle Borah is a web developer (Dev) in the State of Missouri. He works with the department of higher education at the office of administration -ITSD. He is blind and can't see the computer screen. He does have some vision to tell if the screen is lit up but, can't read any text or images, so he uses a program called a screen reader, which voices everything. He also uses a Braille display with a keyboard that is a one-line text output combination.
For this session, he will be using NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows.
Below are mentioned resources:
NVDA: https://nvaccess.org
JAWS: https://www.freedomscientific.com
VoiceOver MacOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/welcome/mac
VoiceOver iOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-on-and-practice-voiceover-iph3e2e415f/ios
TalkBack: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6283677?hl=en
Demo Page: https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/AU/after.html
Testing Resource 1: https://webaim.org/articles/nvda/
Testing Resource 2: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/accessibility/tools/testing-web-pages-with-nvda