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NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2016-10-29 · latest 2026-01-11

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  1. …of the attribute. [1] https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-label [2] NVDA bug confirming they use it: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/7841 [3] Sorry for the numbers everywhere. I've got a footnote macro set for the way most HNers use…
    comment by shakna · 2026-01-11 · in Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users
  2. …updates for two years, etc. [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mwcampbell/wayland-protocols/... [1] https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/13196
    comment by shakna · 2025-11-18 · in Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
  3. It depends. Windows: Definitely NVDA (github.com/nvaccess/nvda) Linux: AT-SPI, ATK, Orca for the graphical side of things. The console/terminal is pretty well supported.
    comment by lynx97 · 2025-10-26 · in People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
  4. If on Windows, opening tickets on NVDA repo works wonderfully well, as long as they find them valid. https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda
    comment by egeozcan · 2025-10-11 · in The <output> Tag
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    story by shakna · 2025-05-31 · 1 comment
  6. …* "ESpeak NJ-1.51’s Mandarin pronunciation is corrupted #12952": https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/12952 * "The pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese using ESpeak NJ in NVDA is not normal #1028": https://github.com/espeak
    comment by follower · 2024-05-02 · in ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
  7. …the ableton installation should come with the NVDA controllerclient.dll. Here is the documentation https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/tree/master/extras/controll... There is also the file NVDAController.h which lists the definitions for C.…
    comment by Adri90 · 2023-03-07
  8. And there's still a lot of work for the third-party tools to do, too. https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/5186#issuecomment-20... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381888 https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/9933 I read…
    comment by wizzwizz4 · 2023-02-08 · in Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit
  9. …field and two buttons inside - those buttons are unlabeled, but decrease/increase the value Fixed - https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/9675#issuecomment-59... > is reported as unlabeled edit field when using nvda+tab Fixed -…
    comment by folkhack · 2022-07-18 · in There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own
  10. Permanent link (press 'y' anywhere on Github): https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/b5f82f878f344ab26004f3... .
    comment by heinrich5991 · 2021-12-30 · in You can't copy code with memcpy
  11. …of that control's window messages aren't marshaled by the OS. Edit: Looks like NVDA still does. https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/source/NVDAObje...
    comment by mwcampbell · 2021-12-30 · in You can't copy code with memcpy
  12. https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda If there's one open source project that changed blind people's lives, that's it. It made screen readers go from about $1000 to practically free, at least if you're an individual, not a corporation.…
    comment by miki123211 · 2021-05-27 · in How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
  13. …tests[3]. [1] https://github.com/w3c/aria-at [2] https://github.com/w3c/aria-at/issues/349 [3] https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/tree/master/tests/system
    comment by jscholes · 2021-01-07 · in A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing
  14. It is a problem, and: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda
    comment by ctoth · 2020-09-10 · in Annoying website features I face as a blind person
  15. …the open-source NVDA screen reader, written primarily in Python with some C++. It's on GitHub here: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda For a fairly large, and long-running, project developed primarily by a single blind programmer, check out…
    comment by mwcampbell · 2019-12-30 · in Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
  16. NVDA is open source https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda for me it would be an inordinately expensive use of my time, but for you? at any rate, both budgets are not infinite, and it's infuriating to hear the described as such.
    comment by bryanrasmussen · 2018-12-17 · in Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
  17. NVDA is also free an open source. [1] [1] https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/copying.txt
    comment by RobMurray · 2017-03-22 · in A little-known iPhone feature that lets blind people see with their fingers
  18. …low priority and it's potentially blocking on another one to refactor how NVDA handles speech. 0: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/3564
    comment by camlorn38 · 2016-10-29 · in Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?