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A lot of what Derek Riemer needed to know to become a professional software developer, he learned during his years involved with the NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) project, an open source screen reader for Microsoft Windows.
Like most of those involved with NVDA and its development, Riemer is blind. He found NVDA in 2011, while still in high school, when he was looking for a free alternative to his proprietary screen reader. He quickly became involved in the community, taught himself to code, and offered support where he could.
By 2013, he’d written his first NVDA add-on, and he’s since written 20 more and contributed code to NVDA itself. Today, Riemer works as a software engineer at Google.
When Michael “Mick” Curran and Jamie Teh started building NVDA in 2006, the majority of screen readers were proprietary and pricey. They wanted NVDA to offer a free and open source alternative.
