Welcome to Accessibility Central

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).




Table of contents

New Zealand libraries
with NVDA



Accessible on demand
and video streaming services


Audio Description

TV commercials that may not
make sense

Lets Go Shopping


Blindness related resources


Ways you can help us

NVDA road tested programs

Avoiding hazards

Sighted Guide

Website Accessibility


Testing your website or application
with the NVDA screen reader


Tips and Tricks

Podcasts and
Product reviews



Games

Basic Braille


NVDA screen reader

Guide dogs

Sports and recreation

PenFriend ideas

Accessible formats

NVDA tutorials

As seen through our eyes


How to install additional
NVDA components



Contact details

Eye conditions

Accessible email client
Mozilla Thunderbird


Things I would like to see
Blind and low vision related


Travel tips for the visually
impaired or blind


Travelling with a
Guide Dog both
home and abroad



NVDA screen reader
related resources


NVDA Audio tutorials

Did you know?
Members information



NVDA tutorials
learning the basics


About

NVDA tutorials for
other programs

Follow AccessibilityCentral
Net on Facebook



NVDA tutorials
for Windows 10


NVDA addons

Migrating to NVDA from
another screen reader


Accessible Phones


Talking Books

Troubleshooting NVDA
screen reader problems





G Gibson New Zealand's first NVDA certified expert 2017 / 2019 / 2022

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 certification.nvaccess.org

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Pages recently updated

Recently updated:
Added Medication Management for people who are visually impaired (by the SingleCare team) to the Blindness related resources page.
Added NVDA testimonies and stories to the NVDA tutorials and the NVDA tutorials learning the basics pages.
Added The Help menu in NVDA has had 2 new items added to it; New default gesture for screen curtain; Installing more than one addon at a time in NVDA;
Uninstalling multiple addons from NVDA at once; Disabling more than one addon at a time; and NVDA development snapshots to the NVDA tutorials page.

The Latest WebAim project - survey number 10
All screen reader users are invited to participate in the latest free WebAim screen reader survey number 10. If you have not participated in this latest survey, you have until the 31st of January 2024
to do so, which may in turn help to inform developers choices. The survey can be found at the following link https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/
 

The free screen reader, NVDA 2023.3 has just been released. It can be found at http://www.nvaccess.org/


Site last updated: 29th of January 2024