I have to be real with you — getting the call to come back to Blind Abilities and talk about NVDA Coach was one of those moments that reminded me exactly why I do this work.
Blind Abilities has been a staple in the blindness community for years. These are people who get it. They’re not covering assistive technology from the outside looking in — they’re embedded in it, they live it, and they bring conversations to their audience that actually matter. Being featured there, not once but multiple times across my career, is something I genuinely don’t take for granted.
This episode is titled “NVDA Coach: From First Keystroke to Confidence — A Free Tool Changing How NVDA Is Learned,” and honestly that title says it all. We dug into what NVDA Coach actually is, how it was built from real classroom experience, and what it means for both learners and instructors trying to bridge the gap in screen reader training.
Over 40 lessons. Structured chapters. A guided path from zero experience to real confidence with NVDA — completely free, completely open source, built by a blind AT instructor who kept seeing the same gap and decided to do something about it.
If you haven’t listened yet, go check it out. And if you know someone — a student, a client, a family member, a colleague — who is trying to learn NVDA and doesn’t know where to start, send them this link. That’s exactly who NVDA Coach was built for.
Thank you to the entire Blind Abilities team for the platform and the support. This community shows up for each other in ways that never stop meaning something to me.
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NVDA Coach: From First Keystroke to Confidence — Blind Abilities
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Stay groovy. Lots of love.
— Tony
Tony Gebhard 