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What Is NVDA?
- Provides feedback by synthetic speech & Braille
- Created in mid 2006 and supported by NV Access since 2007
- Rapidly gained popularity and respect from 2007
- Enables blind users to access a PC at same cost as sighted peers
- A viable alternative to commercial screen readers
- Outperforms some commercial offerings in some areas
- Development has been supported by numerous grants
- Current release version: 2009.1 - recommended for most users
- Experimental development builds are also available