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NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

See http://www.nvda-project.org/

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Running NVDA screen-reader on a single application?

I know that's not the primary use or intended behavior of NVDA, but as a developer it would be amazing to be able to limit NVDA readout to a single window/application. In its current state I'm forced to close and relaunch NVDA every time I switch…
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NVDA spells words, where it shouldn't

it seems that NVDA on Windows Chrome and FF doesn't read the word "selection" correctly. The word actually gets spelled. Setting the lang attribute doesn't help. I've tested this behavior also on other sites, like This One and get the same result:…
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Subtitles given to video in React are not accessible to NVDA screen reader

This is the code that I am using to show a help video.
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Announcing state with aria-expanded

I made an accessible select component, following the ARIA guidelines. It is a combobox and uses aria-expanded as prescribed to announce the state of the dropdown. It works fine when the user first tabs into the component: screen readers announce the…
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NVDA does not announce aria-live regions correctly

I'm in the process of making a React app as accessible as possible. However, I'm noticing some weird behavior with NVDA - I have two live regions which I just cannot get NVDA to announce correctly. On Voiceover, everything works smoothly with…
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How do you prevent NVDA from reading check boxes as "Unlabeled"?

Is there a way to write semantic HTML for checkboxes where it won't read it as "unlabeled, check box"? The following html results in "unlabeled, check box, not checked, Yes" to be read by the screen reader.

Is this checkbox selected?

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NVDA screen reader freezes or not responding when android studio connected to usb debug mode

I am visually impaired and using screen reader. When I use NVDA to access android studio, it works fine, but when I am connected to USB debug mode, NVDA will freeze or not respond. Anyone know why and what the solution is for that? perhaps,…
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Screen reader reading previous page in chrome after successful navigation in reactjs

The problem: The screen reader NVDA reads the previous page even after successful navigation to the next page. I am using react-router-dom for navigation and when I use history.push() command to navigate to the next page, it still reads the text…
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Screen Readers and Browser Events

Do any of the commonly used screen readers emit browser events that can be scripted with javascript? Or, are there current or planned javascript APIs to communicate with screen readers in the same way there are now APIs for working with other OS…
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Distinguish the keypress and click in Mozilla when NVDA is ON

Requirement is to distinguish the keypress and mouse click events in Mozilla browser. The condition is that the Mozilla browser should be able to distinguish the events (click and enter) when the NVDA IS TURNED ON
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NVDA screen reader reading heading twice when embedded with link

I am facing a issue in NVDA screen reader. Its is reading the heading twice. Below is the HTML structure.
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JAWS does not read ul and li elements as a list

NVDA reads correctly. JAWS read only Link 1, Link 2 (content is Link 1, Link 2), but do not read that is is a list list-style-type: none; html:
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NVDA automatically switches to Forms Mode

Currently my React component consists of a few labels and one input box. And it has a view mode and en edit mode. When I go into edit mode, NVDA automatically goes into forms mode, due to which I'm not able to enter any text in input box or…
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NVDA not reading aria-label on div

I have a div element with role="listitem". It contains multiple divs with some text inside. When he outer div is focused, I want a custom aria-label to be read instead of the inner texts. Here is my sample code:
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Automate accessibility testing with NVDA screen reader

I am working on implementing accessibility (for visually impaired individuals) for one of our web application. It need to be ARIA compliant. Right now we are testing our changes with screen reader manually. For example we have Tree control in our…
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