We're proud and honoured to announce that NVDA is the winner of the 2010  New Inventors "Les is More Award"! This award is presented "to an inventor whose invention might make a real difference to people's lives or the environment". We'd like to extend our sincerest thanks to The New Inventors. Thanks also to the many others who have made NVDA possible, including our volunteer developers and translators, organisations who have provided us with funding, the many individuals who have donated and, of course, our users.

In March, NVDA featured on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV's  New Inventors show. We're proud to announce that we're a finalist for the New Inventors "Les is More Award". The New Inventors describes this award as follows:

Each year, in honour of our late judge Les Miller, The New Inventors presents a special award to an inventor whose invention might make a real difference to people's lives or the environment.

To find out if we win, watch the New Inventors grand final this Thursday at 8:30 pm on ABC1!

NVDA will feature in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV's  New Inventors show on Wednesday 10 March. If you're in Australia, tune in to ABC1 at 8pm to watch Mick and me demonstrating and talking about NVDA!

NVDA is now available on public access computers in public libraries right across New Zealand!

Last year, after discovering that NVDA was being blocked from running from a USB drive on public access computers at his local library in Stratford, Gene Gibson contacted  The Aotearoa People's Network, who provide and manage public internet access for public libraries across the country, to request that NVDA be allowed to run. They happily obliged, first for the Stratford district library and later for all libraries served by the APN. In addition, the APN are currently rolling out a software upgrade to all of their computers which includes the latest version of NVDA. Gene has also been instrumental in getting free magnification software installed on APN computers. This is fantastic news for blind and vision impaired New Zealanders! See our Recognition? page for press articles and other links.

We'd like to extend our thanks to Gene for his great advocacy and support of the NVDA project.