NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications.

Features

  • Support for popular applications including web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, email clients, internet chat software, music players, and office programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Built-in speech synthesizer supporting over 55 languages, plus support for many other 3rd party voices
  • Reporting of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors
  • Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position
  • Support for many refreshable braille displays, including input of Braille via braille displays that have a braille keyboard
  • Ability to run entirely from a USB flash drive or other portable media without the need for installation
  • Easy to use talking installer
  • Translated into more than 50 languages
  • Support for modern Windows Operating Systems including both 32 and 64 bit variants
  • Ability to run on Windows logon and other secure screens
  • Announcing controls and text while interacting with gestures on touch screens
  • Optional Telephone Support and comprehensive Training Material available at very low cost
  • Enthusiastic and helpful user community

System Requirements

  • Operating Systems: all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, and all Server Operating Systems starting from Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • For Windows 7, NVDA requires Service Pack 1 or higher.
  • For Windows Server 2008 R2, NVDA requires Service Pack 1 or higher.
  • Memory: 256 mb or more of RAM
  • Processor speed: 1.0 ghz or above
  • About 90 MB of storage space.

What's New

NVDA 2026.2 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2026.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

Highlights

This release includes a new built-in Magnifier feature, improvements to touch gestures and navigation, and expanded speech and braille capabilities.

The Magnifier provides zoom and color filtering options to assist users with visual impairments. The Magnifier currently only supports fullscreen mode, with docked modes planned in a future release.

Touch support has been significantly expanded with new pinch gestures and touch-based browse mode navigation for web content. You can now navigate between links, headings, form fields, and other elements using touch flicks.

Speech features have been enhanced with support for custom speech dictionaries that can be provided by add-ons and new dictionary entry types for more granular control. A new voice setting for OneCore voices was added to control pauses after punctuation. A new command allows repeating the last spoken information, with the ability to display it in a browsable message. The default gesture to repeat the last spoken information is NVDA+x, which can be changed in the Input Gestures dialog.

The braille display can now automatically scroll and DotPad devices support multi-button combinations. The default gesture to toggle automatic scroll is NVDA+alt+k.

Liblouis has been updated with new Italian and Estonian braille tables.

When resetting NVDA to factory defaults, an Undo button is now available to restore the previous configuration.