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"Given the fact that NVDA has an extremely light computer resource foot print the portable version is a blessing" - Squire, South Africa / NVDA negates the barriers many face when accessing a PC, as a free and light-weight screen reader translated into more than 50 languages.

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Two related stories, both involving NVDA basically saving the day:
1. A week-long goalball camp that took place in a school during the summer. The library computers were locked down and had no screen reader on them. I helped a few people get NVDA running. I think it was version 0.5 at the time.
2. All throughout high school the blind school had hilariously old computers running a six-year-old version of JAWS. I basically ran my own portable software suite with NVDA as the screen reader. I can confirm it ran much, much better than JAWS ever has ... and possibly ever will.

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I read the first sentence being about NVIDIA and was very confused.