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 Brave browser to the NVDA road tested programs page; Added essential lessons from NVDA development basics by Jospeh Lee to the NVDA screen reader related resources page; Added Image describer addon and a link to the website to the NVDA addons page; Christchurch City Library announces the installation of the NVDA screen reader on 390 of their public terminals across their network of 19 libraries. To find out which software is available on the CCL network, and how to start the NVDA screen reader, please go to the following links. Software available  https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/faq/computers/#faq_5884  How to start the NVDA screen reader on Christchurch City Library computers  https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/faqs/what-screen-reader-software-is-available/

New: 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 page called Using Kindle for PC with NVDA off the NVDA tutorials for other programs page; Added a page called Using the ribbon interface in Windows via the keyboard (Courtesy of Brian Vogel) off the NVDA tutorials for other programs page; Added where to locate the NVDA development snapshots page for people wanting to help test out the snapshots and/or check out new features to the NVDA screen reader related resources page; Blind Foundation BookLink service now available to all print disabled New Zealanders http://www.accessibilitycentral.net/did%20you%20know%20members%20information.html;
 
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: 21st of May 2019