Using UnicornDVC with NVDA
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is an open source screen reader for computers running on the Windows operating system. It allows blind and visually impaired users to operate a computer without a mouse or screen. Although NVDA has many advanced features, it currently does not support remote sessions (e.g. RDP, Citrix or VMware Horizon) natively.
Because of this, Access4U developed the UnicornDVC software. This is commercial software that allows you to create communication channels in remote desktop connections, in order for a local and remote instance of NVDA to communicate together. This opens the possibility for a speech and braille user to operate a remote session with the same performance as a local system.
Requirements
Our NVDA remote solution (from now on referred to as NVDA Remote DVC) consists of three parts, which can be downloaded from Babbage’s software and update page:
- The NVDA Screen reader, which can be downloaded from The NV Access website
- The NVDA Remote add-on, which facilitates communication between NVDA and the external Unicorn library. The original remote add-on can be downloaded from nvdaremote.com, but lacks support for Unicorn. NVDA Remote has been forked to support communication using the Unicorn library. This version of NVDA Remote can be downloaded [...]