Hi. My name is Aaron. I am a proud user of the NVDA Screen reader. I am using it on an hp notebook as I write this documentation. I have been one of those users who would like to contribute something to the project. I am verry pleased that someone finally decided that maybe a free and open source screen reader would be a great thing to be available to blind computer users.

Well, guess what. I'm almost totally blind, minimal light preception, and NVDA is available to me. I just want to contribute to this brilliant project, and I intend to do that with this documentation.

Now, I would like to take a minute to let anyone unfortunate enough to read this documentation know that neither myself nor the entire NVDA project itself are garanteed to be a hundred percent accurate. The NVDA project consists entirely of a bunch of happy NVDA users who contribute to the screen reader when ever they feel like it. So, NVDA is being developed by people, not a software giant, and people do make mistakes, although not many. *wink* I myself am a user of NVDA who downloaded it onto his sorry computer one day, and loved the screen reader so much that he joined the NVDA Dev list, and now contributes where ever he can, knowing next to nothing about Python, the programming language that NVDA is written in. Anyway, to finish this off, you may find spelling mistakes, or some sort of inconsistancy somewhere in this documentation, that's usually likely to be true if you get something for free though, isn't it?

All right. How this documentation works. Assuming you are reading this documentation in the format which I wrote it, html, you will find links to all of the sections on the start page. You can click or press enter on any of these links to be taken to the page. On every page except the start page itself, you'll find a link to go back to the start page, as well as a link to go back to the previous section, and one to go to the next section. You will find these links both at the top and bottom of each page. It will look something like this.


Using this layout, it's possible for you to dive into the documentation somewhere, on this page, for example, and start clicking the next link every time you finish reading the page, allowing you to move forward through the documentation section by section. Alternatively, you could click the link that will take you back to the start page, where you can locate another link of interest and click or press enter on that one.

Before you begin reading up on NVDA, I would like to wish anybody reading this document a very great experience with the NVDA Screen reader, as well as this help system and anything else that is related to the NVDA project itself.