

NVDA has been translated into fifty-five languages and is used in one-hundred and seventy-five different countries. Why do I use NVDA and recommend it to my MS Windows using clients? Well, it is open source, fast, powerful, easy to install, supports a wide variety of languages, can be run as a portable application, has a large user base, and there is a regular release cycle for new versions. You can download the latest release of NVDA from the NVAccess website.


Fast forward to 2021 and JAWS comes in with 53.7% with NVDA at 30.7%. NVDA, then a relatively new open source screen reader for Windows came in at just 8%. It is a commercial product for Microsoft Windows, and the long-time market leader. In the first survey, the most common screen reader used was JAWS at 74%. The WebAIM screen reader user surveys began in 2009 and ran to 2021. Welcome to the communityĮxplore open source resources How to use the NVDA screen reader.
