{"id":6444,"date":"2020-03-17T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:31:24","slug":"nvda-simplified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/03\/17\/nvda-simplified\/","title":{"rendered":"NVDA &#8211; Simplified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NVDA Screen reader download\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvaccess.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">NVDA<\/a> from NV Access is a free text to speech tool Microsoft Windows machines. It stands for Non-Visual Desktop Access. It will not work on iOS machines.  Many use this tool to listen to content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some simple commands to get you started using NV Access:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><strong><em>Note<\/em><\/strong>: documentation refers to the <kbd>NVDA<\/kbd> key.  The default NVDA key is the <kbd>insert<\/kbd> key.  It can be changed to <kbd>Caps lock<\/kbd> when installing NVDA the first time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><kbd>Control<\/kbd> + <kbd>Alt<\/kbd> + <kbd>n<\/kbd> to run NVDA<\/li><li><kbd>NVDA<\/kbd> + <kbd>q<\/kbd> to close NVDA<\/li><li>Numpad&nbsp;+ <kbd>+<\/kbd>to start reading at the top of the page<\/li><li><kbd>NVDA<\/kbd>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<kbd>down arrow<\/kbd> to start reading at the current position<\/li><li><kbd>h<\/kbd> moves us forward through a document by headings, <kbd>shift<\/kbd> + <kbd>H<\/kbd> moves us backward through headings<\/li><li><kbd>Control<\/kbd> stops speech<\/li><li><kbd>shift<\/kbd> pauses speech, hitting shift again continues where you left off<\/li><li><kbd>l<\/kbd> moves us forward by links, <kbd>shift <\/kbd>+ <kbd>L<\/kbd> moves us backward through links<\/li><li><kbd>up arrow<\/kbd> or <kbd>down arrow<\/kbd> navigates by line<\/li><li><kbd>NVDA key<\/kbd> + <kbd>space<\/kbd> to switch into a special mode (i.e. while focused on a form control). Do the same exit the mode.<\/li><li><kbd>F5<\/kbd> for a page refresh or <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<kbd>F5<\/kbd> for a hard page refresh. If you get lost, this is how you can start over.<\/li><li><kbd>NVDA<\/kbd>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<kbd>up arrow<\/kbd> or <kbd>down arrow<\/kbd> controls the rate of speech increase\/decrease<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Screen Reader Basics: NVDA (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Jao3s_CwdRU\" target=\"_blank\">A11y Cast &#8211; Screen Reader Basics: NVDA<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WebAIM - keyboard shortcuts for NVDA (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/resources\/shortcuts\/nvda\" target=\"_blank\">WebAIM &#8211; keyboard shortcuts for NVDA<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NVDA User Guide (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvaccess.org\/files\/nvda\/documentation\/userGuide.html\" target=\"_blank\">NVDA User Guide<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVDA from NV Access is a free text to speech tool Microsoft Windows machines. It stands for Non-Visual Desktop Access. It will not work on iOS machines. Many use this tool to listen to content. Here are some simple commands to get you started using NV Access: Note: documentation refers to the NVDA key. The default NVDA key is the insert key. It can be changed to Caps lock when installing NVDA the first time Control + Alt + n to run NVDA NVDA + q to close NVDA Numpad&nbsp;+ +to start reading at the top of the page NVDA&nbsp;+&nbsp;down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/03\/17\/nvda-simplified\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NVDA &#8211; Simplified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,71,303,115,304],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-accessibility","category-development","category-people","category-web-development","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1FW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}