[Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA

Fri Sep 5 01:32:07 UTC 2014

Hi,
  Just a quick qestion about NVDA, where do you find the key commands on how 
to use it?

    Thanks, Beverly

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From: "Poppa Bear via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA

> Christopher, I wonder if you can answer this question about NVDA, I forgot 
> where to drop my eloquence file in order to get it to show up as a 
> separate voice option. I did it in an older portable copy I made of NVDA, 
> but want to be able to do it on my latest NVDA versions. Thanks for any 
> thoughts.
>
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> What's New in NVDA
> 2014.3
> New Features
> •The sounds played when NVDA starts and exits can be disabled via a new
> option in the General Settings dialog. (#834)
> •Help for add-ons can be accessed from the Add-ons Manager for add-ons
> which support this. (#2694)
> •Support for the Calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and above (#2943)
> including:
> ◦Announcement of the current time when moving around with the arrow keys.
> ◦Indication if the selected time is within any appointments.
> ◦announcement of the selected appointment when pressing tab.
> ◦Smart filtering of the date so as to only announce the date if the new
> selected time or appointment is on a different day to the last.
> •Enhanced support for the Inbox and other message lists in Microsoft
> Outlook 2010 and above (#3834) including:
> ◦The ability to silence column headers (from, subject, etc.) by turning
> off the Report Table row and column headers option in Document
> Formatting settings.
> ◦The ability to use table navigation commands (control + alt + arrows)
> to move through the individual columns.
> •Microsoft word: If an inline image has no alternative text set, NVDA
> will instead report the title of the image if the author has provided
> one. (#4193)
> •Microsoft Word: NVDA can now report paragraph indenting with the report
> formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported automatically when
> the new Report Paragraph indenting option is enabled in Document
> Formatting settings. (#4165)
> •Report automatically inserted text such as a new bullet, number or tab
> indent when pressing enter in editable documents and text fields. (#4185)
> •Microsoft word: Pressing NVDA+alt+c will report the text of a comment
> if the cursor is within one. (#3528)
> •Improved support for automatic column and row header reading in
> Microsoft Excel (#3568) including:
> ◦Support of Excel defined name ranges to identify header cells
> (compatible with Jaws screen reader) .
> ◦The set column header (NVDA+shift+c) and set row header (NVDA+shift+r)
> commands now store the settings in the worksheet so that they are
> available the next time the sheet is opened, and will be available to
> other screen readers that support the defined name range scheme.
> ◦These commands can also now be used multiple times per sheet to set
> different headers for different regions.
> •Support for automatic column and row header reading in Microsoft Word
> (#3110) including:
> ◦Support of Microsoft Word bookmarks to identify header cells
> (compatible with Jaws screen reader). - set column header (NVDA+shift+c)
> and set row header (NVDA+shift+r) commands while on the first header
> cell in a table allow you to tell NVDA that these headers should be
> reported automatically. Settings are stored in the document so that they
> are available the next time the document is opened, and will be
> available to other screen readers that support the bookmark scheme.
> •Microsoft Word: Report the distance from the left edge of the page when
> the tab key is pressed. (#1353)
> •Microsoft Word: provide feedback in speech and braille for most
> available formatting shortcut keys (bold, italic, underline, alignment,
> outline level, superscript, subscript and font size). (#1353)
> •Microsoft Excel: If the selected cell contains comments, they can be
> now reported by pressing NVDA+alt+c. (#2920)
> •Microsoft Excel: Provide an NVDA-specific dialog to edit the comments
> on the currently selected cell when pressing Excel's shift+f2 command to
> enter comment editing mode. (#2920)
> •Microsoft Excel: speech and braille feedback for many more selection
> movement shortcuts (#4211) including:
> ◦Vertical page movement (pageUp and pageDown);
> ◦Horizontal page movement (alt+pageUp and alt+pageDown);
> ◦Extend selection (the above keys with Shift added); and
> ◦Selecting the current region (control+shift+8).
> •Microsoft Excel: The vertical and horizontal alignment for cells can
> now be reported with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also
> be reported automatically if the Report alignment option in Document
> Formatting settings is enabled. (#4212)
> •Microsoft Excel: The style of a cell can now be reported with the
> report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported
> automatically if the Report Style option in Document formatting settings
> is enabled. (#4213)
> •Microsoft PowerPoint: when moving shapes around a slide with the arrow
> keys, the shape's current location is now reported (#4214) including:
> ◦The distance between the shape and each of the slide edges is reported.
> ◦If the shape covers or is covered by another shape, then the distance
> overlapped and the overlapped shape are reported.
> ◦To report this information at any time without moving a shape, press
> the report location command (NVDA+delete).
> ◦When selecting a shape, if it is covered by another shape, NVDA will
> report that it is obscured.
> •The report location command (NVDA+delete) is more context specific in
> some situations. (#4219)
> ◦In standard edit fields and browse mode, the cursor position as a
> percentage through the content and its screen coordinates are reported.
> ◦On shapes in PowerPoint Presentations, position of the shape relative
> to the slide and other shapes is reported.
> ◦Pressing this command twice will produce the previous behaviour of
> reporting the location information for the entire control.
> •New language: Catalan.
> Changes
> •Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.5.4. (#4103)
> Bug Fixes
> •In Google Chrome and Chrome-based browsers, certain chunks of text
> (such as those with emphasis) are no longer repeated when reporting the
> text of an alert or dialog. (#4066)
> •In browse mode in Mozilla applications, pressing enter on a button,
> etc. no longer fails to activate it (or activates the wrong control) in
> certain cases such as the buttons at the top of Facebook. (#4106)
> •Useless information is no longer announced when tabbing in iTunes. 
> (#4128)
> •In certain lists in iTunes such as the Music list, moving to the next
> item using object navigation now works correctly. (#4129)
> •HTML elements considered headings because of WAI ARIA markup are now
> included in the Browse mode Elements list and quick navigation for
> Internet Explorer documents. (#4140)
> •Following same-page links in recent versions of Internet Explorer now
> correctly moves to and reports the destination position in browse mode
> documents. (#4134)
> •Microsoft Outlook 2010 and above: Overall access to secure dialogs such
> as the New profiles and mail setup dialogs has been improved. (#4090,
> #4091, #4095)
> •Microsoft Outlook: Useless verbosity has been decreased in command
> toolbars when navigating through certain dialogs. (#4096, #3407)
> •Microsoft word: Tabbing to a blank cell in a table no longer
> incorrectly announces exiting the table. (#4151)
> •Microsoft Word: The first character past the end of a table (including
> a new blank line) is no longer incorrectly considered to be inside the
> table. (#4152)
> •Microsoft Word 2010 spell check dialog: The actual misspelled word is
> reported rather than inappropriately reporting just the first bold word.
> (#3431)
> •In browse mode in Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, tabbing
> or using single letter navigation to move to form fields again reports
> the label in many cases where it didn't (specifically, where HTML label
> elements are used). (#4170)
> •Microsoft Word: Reporting the existance and placement of comments is
> more accurate. (#3528)
> •Navigation of certain dialogs in MS Office products such as Word, Excel
> and Outlook has been improved by no longer reporting particular control
> container toolbars which are not useful to the user. (#4198)
> •Task panes such as clipboard manager or File recovery no longer
> accidentilly seem to gain focus when opening an application such as
> Microsoft Word or Excel, which was sometimes causing the user to have to
> switch away from and back to the application to use the document or
> spreadsheet. (#4199)
> •NVDA no longer fails to run on recent Windows Operating Systems if the
> user's Windows language is set to Serbian (Latin). (#4203)
> •Pressing numlock while in input help mode now correctly toggles
> numlock, rather than causing the keyboard and the Operating System to
> become out of sync in regards to the state of this key. (#4226)
> •In Google Chrome, the title of the document is again reported when
> switching tabs. In NVDA 2014.2, this did not occur in some cases. (#4222)
> •In Google Chrome and Chrome-based browsers, the URL of the document is
> no longer reported when reporting the document. (#4223)
> •When running say all with the No speech synthesizer selected (useful
> for automated testing), say all will now complete instead of stopping
> after the first few lines. (#4225)
> •Microsoft Outlook's Signature dialog: The Signature editing field is
> now accessible, allowing for full cursor tracking and format detection.
> (#3833)
> •Microsoft Word: When reading the last line of a table cell, the entire
> table cell is no longer read. (#3421)
> •Microsoft Word: When reading the first or last line of a table of
> contents, the entire table of contents is no longer read. (#3421)
> •When speaking typed words and in some other cases, words are no longer
> incorrectly broken at marks such as vowel signs and virama in Indic
> languages. (#4254)
> •Numeric editable text fields in GoldWave are now handled correctly. 
> (#670)
> •Microsoft Word: when moving by paragraph with control+downArrow /
> control+upArrow, it is no longer necessary to press them twice if moving
> through bulleted or numbered lists. (#3290)
> Changes for Developers
> •NVDA now has unified support for add-on documentation. See the Add-on
> Documentation section of the Developer Guide for details. (#2694)
> •When providing gesture bindings on a ScriptableObject via __gestures,
> it is now possible to provide the None keyword as the script. This
> unbinds the gesture in any base classes. (#4240)
> •It is now possible to change the shortcut key used to start NVDA for
> locales where the normal shortcut causes problems. (#2209)
> ◦This is done via gettext.
> ◦Note that the text for the Create desktop shortcut option in the
> Install NVDA dialog, as well as the shortcut key in the User Guide, must
> also be updated.
> -- 
> Christopher Hallsworth
> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
> www.hadley.edu
>
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