{"id":4701,"date":"2021-09-21T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:46:56","slug":"learn-how-to-test-for-accessibility-with-nvda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Learn How to Test for Accessibility with NVDA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ihMzPMUF17WJV0lcA2nWLkvmN0uwLqdmMzNDcCAsS-RU-M9yNd92i73kwiYoDynkxukGlwsOvjq_JPgckiOx-Cn4ZMbJY9x4k8RTsPIXq6_7JW83I3G9gT-47Q=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/nfb.org\/images\/nfb\/images\/images\/nfb-logo-for-email-template.jpg\" alt=\"National Federation of the Blind logo and tagline live the life you want\"><\/p>\n<p>Manually testing a web page for accessibility is an important part of making sure your site is accessible to as many people as possible. Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a freely available screen reader that works very well for testing web sites. Join the National Federation of the Blind Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Access on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Eastern via Zoom to learn the basics of conducting a manual accessibility test using NVDA. Topics to be covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Configuring NVDA for ease of testing<\/li>\n<li>Common keystrokes for browsing the web<\/li>\n<li>Strategies for testing web pages<\/li>\n<li>Strategies for effective testing for sighted users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take advantage of this free opportunity.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nfb.org\/civicrm\/mailing\/url?u=23043&amp;qid=6003361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nfb.org\/civicrm\/mailing\/url?u%3D23043%26qid%3D6003361&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632316036957000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTKrjaKbuu0OsVVP8zMyW2bQFzUg\">Register today!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4701\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manually testing a web page for accessibility is an important part of making sure your site is accessible to as many people as possible. Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a freely available screen reader that works very well for testing web sites. Join the National Federation of the Blind Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}