Mozilla Foundation Grant to improve web access in NVDA

In early July, NV Access received a grant for a total of US$10000 from the  Mozilla Foundation to support a re-write of the current web access code for NVDA.

This grant will also allow the programmers to conduct research into determining the most appropriate design and method for NVDA to access web content. It will also enable NVDA to fully support  Mozilla FireFox and its implementation of IAccessible2.

For the NVDA user, the improved web access solution will mean a more usable and faster experience when browsing the web, including better access to the more dynamic content that has been emerging in recent times.

The grant is expected to run until mid 2008. By which time the design, code and initial testing of the new web access solution should be completed. If you would like to read about the technical progress of the grant work, you can visit the  Web Access blog for developers.