Reece is an energetic young man from Australia. He is 11 and in grade 5 at primary school.
Reece told us:
“I am visually impaired and I use braille and guess what else I use? It’s NVDA!!!
I use my computer all the time and I am smart at technology I also use a Brailliant for reading braille at school and I have a cool desktop pc at home
I watched the Australian Story episode on you guys
I use NVDA at home and school because its free and really nice and user friendly
Thank you for creating NVDA”
Wow, thanks Reece! We are very excited to share that Reece has made a video, especially for us to share, about how he uses NVDA. You can watch the video below. Underneath, we have included the transcript if you would prefer to read it. The video is definitely worth watching though, both for Reece’s enthusiasm, and the song about him, played at the start and end!
Transcript:
Narrator: Title says: NVDA with Digitech Reece. Background music singing about “The kid with the digital touch”
Narrator: The following video displays short clips of Reece typing on his computer, and close-up footage of his monitor. Music continues.
Narrator: Periodically the scene will change to show Reece talking. Music continues.
Reece: Hey, my name’s Reece and I’m going to show you how I use NVDA at school and a little bit of at home too I’ve been using NVDA ever since, probably around, the end of 2023 and it’s been really helpful and useful I’ve gotten better at NVDA by doing NVDA training with Ken from Vision Australia and my vision services teacher Margaret; she did an NVDA manual with me.
Reece: At the very beginning of me learning NVDA on the basic skills like navigating around apps, and icons and Windows. I would use NVDA roughly, probably 95% of my day.
Reece: And I am very smart at technology. And because I’m very smart at technology, I’m able to understand and use NVDA really well.
Reece: I use NVDA to navigate around websites and the web. I go into the search bar by clicking E to go find the edit field and then I type in what I want to search about.
Reece: And then most of the time I just use the AI result at the top, but sometimes I go into websites and use links and headings and everything in NVDA to navigate around and find everything I need. I also use NVDA to write and save my work. Most of the time I use Word, but sometimes if I’m doing this thing called Word Origins.
Reece: I use notepad because there is no spell check in that. And I save it by doing alt+f4 and going to save and then I type in my filename and I save it into a specific folder and then I click save and I navigate to it and edit it.
Reece: I use emails basically every day. I do control+n to start a new email, and I email sometimes my teacher, Lee, my O&M to see when he’s going to come in, my vision services teacher Margaret to see what she’s going to do, and when she’s coming in and maybe even other people like companies that I want to email.
Reece: I’m about to save my work and email it to my teacher.
NVDA: “Dialog, save, file, w, o” NVDA “word, associations, edit, cut, copy, word associations, p” Reece: I navigate Windows with NVDA really simply. I just click the Windows key and type my app in then click enter, then I use tab and the arrow keys, and typing to navigate with the app.
NVDA “Associates, associations. Wo, word associations.doc” NVDA: “How to you want to attach? Attach as copy button. Word associations message blank.”
Reece: I also use NVDA to change the settings on my computer like the desktop background the volume, the voice that it uses. But sometimes the education department just reverts my desktop background and settings back to the default.
Reece: But when I’m at home on my own computer, I can adjust the settings to what I like. And I also, when I’m in the classroom I use these headphones right here to listen to my computer and I put them on and I have one ear free so I can hear what the teacher is saying, like this:
Reece: I know now how to touch type with NVDA and I had to learn all the keyboard shortcuts and key combinations in NVDA to navigate around it really easily. But know I know them, I’m an NVDA expert.
Reece: Remember how I am smart at technology? Well in the future I want to be able to do coding.
NVDA: Windows default Lock screen.
Reece: Oh sorry, that was just NVDA talking just then. Yeah, I want to be able to do coding in the future and be able to develop programs and stuff.
Reece: (laughing) Do you have any jobs for me?
Narrator: Small video of a cat typing quickly on a keyboard
Reece: Thank you for making NVDA. It has changed my life so much. It’s made my life so easy to use and technology is so easy, and it’s just changed my life thanks so much for everything you’ve done.
Narrator: Accessibility services logo. Tasmanian Government logo.
Wow, thank you Reece! And we suspect it wouldn’t be surprising if not only ourselves, but every technology company will be chasing your expertise before long!
When Reece first wrote to us, he told us:
“I was featured on the TV show BTN. this was because I got audio descriptions happening on that show by emailing them and requesting they add them and then they contacted me requesting a segment on how I use tech at school! Here is the link.
Thanks again for making a great product for the blind and visually impaired community”
Well done, Reece! BTN, or “Behind the News” is a nationally broadcast TV show for kids which anyone who went to school in Australia over the last 50 years will be familiar with. Aimed at school-age viewers, it explains some of the themes in the news of the day. Given so many schools make BTN a part of their student’s learning, having audio description will make a huge difference to blind and vision impaired students around the country. Well done Reece! We originally shared Reece’s BTN segment on our social media and our blog when it came out. Now, we are thrilled to have this new video to share with you and we are confident you found both videos inspiring!
If you’ve watched both of Reece’s videos and would still like more to watch, why not head over to YouTube and watch the Australian Story episode on NV Access creators Mick and Jamie.
Or, are you like Reece and do well in front of the camera? We’d love to see your video testimonial about NVDA and how it helps you! Do reach out to us if you’d like to share your story. We look forward to highlighting some more of the wonderful stories from the NVDA community in 2026!