Useful Softwares

JVietnamese is a Jaws script, to help ease the Vietnamese reading features with keystrokes to switch between synthesizers and voices.

Levelator is a free tool developed by The Conversation Network, which do compressor for audio.

MP3DirectCut (MP3DC) is a free audio recording and editing program, runs on windows, simple, easy to use, quite accessible to common screen reader.

You can download the latest version of DoudouLinux Vietnamese translated by Sao Mai Center for the Blind.

Follow this link to start the download from DoudouLinux website.

SHA1 checksum: 07eb38b17809c8543361fd2ddd3ecd6c91874555

File Format Converter is a tool for Microsoft Office 2003 users to open files created using newer versions.

Audacity is a free, open source, cross-flatform audio recording and editing software, and quite accessible to popular screen-reader.

Lingoes is a free dictionary application, with two main features. Those are dictionaries and text translation, multiple languages support.

UniKey is a popular Vietnamese keyboard for Vietnamese, especialy blind people.

Sometimes, Windows 7 users has problem using Jaws because of the error installing its Video Intercep Manager. In essence, this tool is a hotfix from Microsoft for solving the problem. People just download, pick a version that match your operating system type (X86 / X64), install it, and then install Jaws as the normal way.

Download Update For Video Intercept Problem

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. NVDA is developed by NV Access, with contributions from the community.

General Features
•Support for popular applications including web browsers, email clients, internet chat programs and office suites
•Built-in speech synthesizer supporting over 80 languages
•Reporting of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors
•Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position
•Support for many refreshable braille displays, including the ability to detect many of them automatically as well as braille input on braille displays with a braille keyboard
•Ability to run entirely from a USB flash drive or other portable media without the need for installation
•Easy to use talking installer
•Translated into 54 languages
•Support for modern Windows Operating Systems including both 32 and 64 bit variants
•Ability to run on Windows logon and other secure screens
•Announcing controls and text while using touch gestures
•Support for common accessibility interfaces such as Microsoft Active Accessibility, Java Access Bridge, IAccessible2 and UI Automation (UI Automation only supported in Windows 7 and later)
•Support for Windows Command Prompt and console applications

(Source: NvDA user guide)

Beside, people can write add-on to make it more accessible to some specific application. More info at https://addons.nvda-project.org/index.en.html

Download links

Download: NVDA 2018.4 | Download: NVDA 2017.3 (the last version supports Windows XP).

beside, the latest version of NVDA can be downloaded here. Please consider to make a donation if you see NvDA useful for you and the blind community.