We are pleased and grateful to announce that  Adobe have provided a grant to NV Access to support NVDA development. This grant will enable us to  improve support for Adobe Reader and  add support for Adobe flash embedded in browsers. This is great news for NVDA users given the increasing regularity of PDF documents and Flash content. This will also help users access content and applications developed with Adobe Flex and interactive forms developed with Adobe LiveCycle.

We're pleased to announce a formal partnership with  Yahoo! to support the  NVDA project. Their first funding contribution will enable us to implement  enhanced table navigation and reporting in virtual buffers,  ARIA land marks,  ARIA drag and drop and  other ARIA improvements in NVDA over the next couple of months. This will greatly improve the experience on the web for NVDA users for both web pages and advanced web applications. We'd like to thank Yahoo! for their support and hope to continue this partnership into the future.

The  Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, hosted by California State University, Northridge (and thus usually known simply as the CSUN conference), is perhaps the world's largest conference on assistive technology. Thanks to the generocity and support of the  Mozilla Foundation, Mick attended CSUN 2007 and both Mick and I attended CSUN 2008. We gained a great deal from these conferences, as they enabled us to meet and share information and ideas with prominent figures in the industry, as well as giving us a fantastic opportunity to spread the word about NVDA. For CSUN 2009, given the positive response from users and the industry as a whole, we decided to take a step forward and run our own presentation about NVDA. We are pleased to announce that our submission was accepted. We are very much looking forward to the conference and are keen to once again spread the word about open accessibility technology from the Mozilla booth. CSUN 2009 will be held from 16-21 March at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott & Renaissance Montura Hotels.

Please see the  post on the NVDA blog for the abstract of the presentation.

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NV Access is a non-profit organisation based in Melbourne, Australia. Our main purpose is to support projects and initiatives that provide free and open source software solutions that enable people who are blind and vision impaired to access technology. Watch this blog for news regarding NV Access and its projects.