instructions how you can install Webvisum

In my latest post, I introduced a add-on for Firefox called "Webvisum". Now, I tell you how you can register your account.

To request an invitation by the webvisum team, go to http://www.webvisum.com click on the link "invitations" and there on "request an invitation." Next, you have to tell something about yourself so that the team of webvisum know that you are not a virtual machine. May be you can write: "I am _..._ years old and live in _..._. My favourite ice-cream is _..._." or what you want. This should only give you an idea of the text you can write. Additional you have to type in your name and your mailadress. The invitation code will be send there. When you fill in the form and click "submit commentar", may it will be take one or two days until you get a mail from webvisum. In this mail, you find more instructions how to register your account.

Another possebility to get an invitation is to send an e-mail to some mailinglists. For example, if you registered in the mailing list of jaws, you can ask the people there to send you an invitation to your mail adress. May This would be faster than a request at the webvisum webpage.

nice add-ons to surf easier with NVDA on the internet

There are a few add-ons in Mozilla Firefox to surf easier on the internet.

First, there's a add-on called "addblock plus." this program blocks all advertisements on a website so you can navigate through it and haven't to look at these anoying things. In my opinion, this is a very useful program for websites with lots of advertisements. Download and try it out at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/179004/adblock_plus-2.2.1-sm+tb+an+fx.xpi?src=external-abp.o-en-firefox

Another interesting add-on is webvisum. With this add-on you are able to solve captchars and give untitled links on a website a name. The add-on makes a website readable with a screen reader. To use the program, it is necessary to get an invitation from an existing webvisum member or request an invitation from the webvisum team. This is not so difficult as it sounds here. You can get the invitation and register at www.webvisum.com

A detailed describtion how you can get the invitation and more information about webvisum will be in my next blog.

The community and different ways to get help to use NVDA

NVDA has a big community around the world. Many people discus many different things like new ideas, accessability and lots of more in different mailing lists. In these lists, you can ask questions (if you have a problem with the screen reader, new ideas that should be added to the program in the future and lots of more). Please check the support at http://www.nvda-project.org/wiki/Support for more information.

The project has been translated into over 20 languages around the world (Arabic, Czech/Slovak, Hungarian, french, German, italian, Japanese) and lots of more. You can find a list of blogs and mailing lists for the different languages at http://www.nvda-project.org/wiki/Community

A great possibility to suggest neew features or tell problems to the development-team is the roadmap. Everyone who want, can create a ticket here and the development can look at these tickets and (if needed) fix, close or change them. This is very useful if you find a problem (for example a program doesn't work with NVDA), you can write it here. But if you create a ticket, you have to describe the problem as precisely as possible because the developers can only fix it, if they exactly know what's wrong. More information about this you can find at http://www.nvda-project.org/wiki/ReportingIssues

These tickets will be shown at the roadmap. You can find this at http://www.nvda-project.org/roadmap

videos and potcasts

To know the software better, there are some video and audio potcasts available. On the website of the project, http://www.nvda-project.org is a video about the program.

5 audio potcasts of the project you can find here: http://www.nvaccess.org/blog/category/Podcast

More audio material to the project is available at http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~hurrikenny/nvda%20audio%20tutorials.html

More tutorials about the project are at http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~hurrikenny/nvda%20tutorials.html

There are nine potcasts online you can find them at http://www.nvda-kr.org/en

The first potcast there is about NVDA, how to install, update to a new version, how to create a portable version and much more interesting things. In the second part, you can learn something about NVDA modifier key, NVDA menu, keyboard layouts, input help mode and some basic commands. The third part is splited in two parts. Part one is about introduction to objects and examples on using object navigation commands. Part two gives you more examples of object navigation, mouse commands and using flat review.

There is a fourth potcast about touring the web with NVDA, including focus versus browse mode and first letter navigation (part one), in the last part of this, you can known touring the web continued, including elements list, embedded objects and other features.

A describtion about the next potcasts I'll give later here.

At the moment, there are no more potcasts of this project available. But I'll update this page when a new potcast released. If you know a potcast that is not in this list, please tell me because I want to give people a overview of available potcasts as current as possible. Thanks for your help!

Thank you so much to all users, who created allready or wants to create potcasts or blogs like this. You all do a great job! keep going on!

open and look ath a homepage with NVDA

After you installed NVDA, please start it with the shortcut alt+ctrl+n. You will hear a short sound when the program load. After a few seconds, a voice will say "NVDA is loading, please wait" After the load process finished, NVDA read the actually open window on the screen.

Now we are ready to open a web adress. Please start your web browser. When your favourite website is open, the program will start to read the whole webpage from the top till the end. In my opinion this is not a good idea to know a new website and how to use the screen reader in the internet, so please stopp the voice talking with the left control key.

To explore a website, please control the following things: Do you have any headlines on the webpage? you can check this by press the letter "h" (for headline). When NVDA find one, it will say the name and will move directly to it. Are there any forms? to check this, press the letter "f". NVDA will jump directly to the next form on the page. Press the enter-key to open it. No you can type text into it or chose anything if the form is a list. Buttons: Press the letter "b" to search after this. You can also look at the site from the top to the end. Do this with the arrow keys.