NVDA Screen Reader

• Grantee

  NV Access

• Location

  Australia

• Support break-down

  1. 2007
     1. Initial Support: $10,000
     2. Support for full time work of James Teh: $80,000
  2. 2009
     1. Expanding work: $25,000
  3. 2010
     1. Growing influence: $20,000

  Total support

  $135,000

• Focus Area

  Open Source Technology

Mozilla made grants to NV Access from 2007 to 2010 to support the development of NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA), a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person.

Read more at:

• http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/Mozilla_Foundation_grant_allows_for_employment_of_NVDA_full-time_developer
• http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/First_Work_on_Web_Access_Grant
• http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/NewMozillaGrantFurthersNVDA
• http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/NVDAPresentationAtCSUN2009