In order to enable people with visual impairments access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers, the information on the website is accessible with NVDA screen readers.

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free “screen reader” which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers. It reads the text on the screen in a computerised voice.

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free screen reader for computers running on the Windows operating system. Here is a snapshot of just some of NVDA’s features.

 Support for popular applications including web browsers, email, internet chatting, and office programs including Word and Excel.

 NVDA can be installed directly on to your computer, but it has the ability to run entirely from a USB stick or other portable media.

 Built-in speech synthesiser for English and more than 43 other languages.

 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.

 upport for many refreshable braille displays.

 Easy to use talking installer.

 Support for common accessibility interfaces including Java Access Bridge.

 Support for Windows command prompt and console applications.

If installing NVDA directly from the NVDA download package, press the Install NVDA button. If you have already closed this dialog or are wanting to install from a portable copy, please choose the Install NVDA menu item found under Tools in the NVDA menu.

The installation dialog that appears will confirm whether you wish to install NVDA and will also tell you whether this installation will be updating a previous install. Pressing the Continue button will start installing NVDA. There are also a few options in this dialog which are explained below. Once the installation has completed, a message will appear telling you that it was successful. Pressing OK at this point will restart the newly installed copy of NVDA.

 Support for popular applications including web browsers, email, internet chatting, and office programs including Word and Excel.

 NVDA can be installed directly on to your computer, but it has the ability to run entirely from a USB stick or other portable media.

 Built-in speech synthesiser for English and more than 43 other languages.

 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.

 Easy to use talking installer.

 Support for common accessibility interfaces including Java Access Bridge.

 Support for Windows command prompt and console applications.