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

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

Recently updated: Added a tutorial called The basics of making a ticket for NVACCESS on the NVDA audio tutorials page http://accessibilitycentral.net/nvda%20audio%20tutorials.html ; Updating your portable copy of NVDA or postponing it to a later date; Run COM Registration Fixing tool; and The new NVDA menus
(all on the NVDA Audio tutorials page).

New: Added a tutorial (both written and audio) for Skype 8 desktop for Windows, using the NVDA screen reader http://accessibilitycentral.net/nvda%20tutorials%20for%20other%20programs.html; Added How to completely uninstall NVDA from your computer; as well as another tutorial called Addon troubleshooting to the troubleshooting section on the NVDA audio tutorials page; 
Added the following to all NVDA related pages - For a variety of NVDA related resources from around the world,
please visit the NVDA screen reader related resources page at the following link NVDA screen reader related resources
Added a new review called Google Home Mini smart speaker on the podcast and product reviews page
http://accessibilitycentral.net/podcasts%20and%20product%20reviews.html
  Added a page called NVDA screen reader related resources. Added a page called Skype Trusted Microsoft Store App (off the NVDA tutorials for other programs page) http://accessibilitycentral.net/nvda%20tutorials%20for%20other%20programs.html
The free screen reader, NVDA 2018.2.1 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
Email

Site last updated: 4th September 2018