The aim of this website is to bring together a variety of eyesight related subjects - into one central area. Whether you are a shop owner wanting to find out how to best serve vision impaired customers, or a newly blind member looking for tips and tricks to assist in everyday life, this site aims to hopefully have something for everyone.  Some links within my website are internal, while others are New Zealand based or international. Please use your own discretion.
Look for my updated pages and contact email address at the end of the following table.

Translating this site into another language (for people using screen readers)

To have this website translated into a language other than English, please visit the google translate page at the following link.
https://translate.google.com/#en/mi/
The From: language (that is English for this website) should be selected by default and is a combo box;
the To: language (whichever language you would like to have the page translated into) can be tabbed to.
After you have chosen your preferred language (using the combo box), the next tab after that is the translation.
You should then see the webpage translated into the language that you have chosen (for example Maori).

G Gibson New Zealand's first NVDA certified expert 2017/2019

To find out who has been registered worldwide as an NVDA certified expert, or to find out more about becoming one yourself, please visit the following link

Pages recently updated

NVDACon2019 - NVDA's annual conference online.

The question has been asked...Which weekend/s in August would suit most people for NVDACon2019?  

Please take two minutes and access the survey at https://doodle.com/poll/sd5ubgyrbhibm5bw

 To complete the survey, please don’t use Firefox because the survey is not completely accessible in that browser. Select the weekend or weekends that suit you best!

 Hope to see you all at NVDACon2019!

Recently updated: Added the Microsoft Edge chromium based browser to the browser list on the NVDA road tested programs page. Added the following sections to the NVDA tutorials page: NVDA now remembers the last 20 searches done; Filter by search box for locating punctuation/symbols with NVDA; Assign a shortcut key to hear what is spoken under the mouse pointer; and Disabling Browse mode in NVDA. Added a new section to the NVDA tutorials for Windows 10 page called Windows One Core voices can now be used with the rate boost feature in NVDA. Added a new section to the NVDA Addons page called Addon updater.


New: Added a page called New Zealand libraries with NVDA to the main homepage. Added a page called Using the Microsoft Edge chromium powered browser with the NVDA screen reader to the NVDA tutorials for other programs page. Added a new page to the main AccessibilityCentral.net homepage called Blindness related resources.

 
The free screen reader, NVDA 2019.1.1 has just been released. It can be found at http://www.nvaccess.org/

To get your free copy of the SpeechHub synthesiser package (which works well with NVDA), the SpeakOn MediaSuite (which is a self voicing application), or the SpeakOn CalcPad (calculator program) please visit http://www.speakon.org.uk/

Would you like to be put onto a mailing list to find out about the latest tutorials etcetera added to this site? Do you have any questions about this site? Then please feel free to email me with any feedback (or relative information to pass on to others) using the following link
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Site last updated: 16th of June 2019