Using any screen reader proficiently takes training and practice. Like all screen readers, there are a lot of key combinations to learn with NVDA. Any add-ons you choose to install will depend on your needs and there are a lot to choose from, including extensions for common video conferencing platforms. There is also an active developer community with their own Community Add-ons website.

If you don't like doing that you can also press alt/alt+Space, click 'Copy All to Clipboard', and paste all your terminal output into a notepad file to review. NVDA has been translated into fifty-five languages and is used in one-hundred and seventy-five different countries. You still need a mouse to select text in PuTTY, but you can mark text for selection using NVDA+F9 to start the selection and NVDA+F10 to end and copy it to your clipboard. Why do I use NVDA and recommend it to my MS Windows using clients? Well, it is open source, fast, powerful, easy to install, supports a wide variety of languages, can be run as a portable application, has a large user base, and there is a regular release cycle for new versions. You can download the latest release of NVDA from the NVAccess website. Fast forward to 2021 and JAWS comes in with 53.7% with NVDA at 30.7%. NVDA, then a relatively new open source screen reader for Windows came in at just 8%. It is a commercial product for Microsoft Windows, and the long-time market leader. In the first survey, the most common screen reader used was JAWS at 74%. The WebAIM screen reader user surveys began in 2009 and ran to 2021.

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