---------------------------------------- Christopher Gray, Executive Director Missouri Council of the Blind 5453 Chippewa St. Louis, MO 63109 Phone: (314) 832-7172 Toll-free: (800) 342-5632 Fax: (314) 832-7796 Like Jazz? Want to know more about jazz? Tune into A Journey into Jazz with the ACB Radio Jazz Guys, Chris and Don. Listen live each Monday at 6:00 P.M. Eastern, 3:00 P.M. Pacific Find us by going to http://www.acbradio.org, clicking the Listen link and clicking LIsten to ACB Radio Interactive using your audio player of choice. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 18:56:10 +0000 From: Deanna Noriega <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Blind Orgs Make PowerPoint Support a Reality in NVDA Blind Orgs Make PowerPoint Support a Reality in NVDA April 24, 2013 6:09 am Michael and James on stage with projecter screen showing "Gala dinner WBU-ICEB 2012" Thanks to the support of several key blindness organisations, soon blind and vision impaired people will be able to gain access to Microsoft PowerPoint through NVDA, enabling them to both create and present presentations along with their sighted peers. People have long waited for PowerPoint support in NVDA, but it was at a gala dinner held at the WBU-ICEVI 2012 General Assembly in Thailand where it all became possible. Over US$40,000 was contributed that night to add support for Microsoft PowerPoint to the NVDA screen reader. Funding was pledged from blindness organisations all over the globe, including from Australia, the U.s, Israel, Germany, Spain, Thailand and others. It was an extremely proud night for us to see the blindness community and its organizations pull together and take ownership of equitable access to technology. NVDA may have been created by NV Access, but it is most certainly now owned by the blindness community at large. Support for Microsoft PowerPoint will be included in the next release of NVDA (2013.1) which is due out very shortly. We would like to thank the following organisations for their financial contribution to this work: National Organization of Spanish blind people (ONCE), Vision Australia, National Federation of the Blind (U.S.), Christian Foundation for the Blind (Thailand), Thailand Association of the Blind, Overbrook school for the blind, The Society of Blind and Dyslexic Students in Israel, and RNIB. DeAnna Noriega Independent Living Specialist/Blind and Low Vision Services [email protected] Services for Independent Living http://www.silcolumbia.org 1401 Hathman Place Columbia, MO 65201 (573) 874-1646 (573) 874-3564 Fax CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for those to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from disclosure or unauthorized use under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail or the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender. If you received this transmission in error, please return the material received to the sender and delete all copies from your system. _______________________________________________ ATI (Adaptive Technology Inc.) A special interest affiliate of the Missouri Council of the Blind http://moblind.org/membership/affiliates/adaptive_technology
