As NVDA is used globally, we are regularly considering opportunities to attend conferences in different locations where we can connect with our diverse community of NVDA users and the wider assistive technology community. Therefore, we are excited to announce that members of the NV Access team will be attending the 2026 Sight City Conference which is being held in Germany during May this year. We are excited about the opportunity to meet with NVDA users from Europe and around the world who will be attending, as well as many like minded organisations, professionals, educators and researchers, experts in assistive technology from Europe and globally.
Unfortunately, this means that we will not be attending the 2026 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. We will be sharing updates on what is new with NVDA and what is on our roadmap via our usual channels, our In-Process blog, social media (here), and the official NVDA user's email group
FIrstly thanks for helping your friend! I'm sure he appreciates you.
Unfortunately there is no linux version. It would be technically possible, and indeed, Orca does use some of our code. However, screen readers work at a lot lower level than many other programs - simplifying dramatically, but as an example, porting a word process between operating systems for instance, mostly requires making sure the system interfacing parts (like saving or printing) work and much of the internals can stay as they are. Most of what NVDA does is interfacing with the operating system to find out what is going on, where the cursor is, what has focus, what has changed, etc so it can present useful information to the user. In order to create a linux version, we'd actually have to rewrite the vast majority of the code. At this stage, we feel our efforts are best spent continuing to improve the experience on Windows, BUT should that ever change, we will be sure to publicise it widely. For now, Orca is the main screen reader I'm aware of on Linux, though I admit I have not looked lately.