[Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA

Fri Sep 5 02:16:03 UTC 2014

In the NVDA help system. Get into your NVDA menus by hitting NVDA-n. My 
NVDA key is the caps-lock key, but I bet insert would work as well. 
Arrow down to help, and you'll find all of the keyboard shortcuts.

On 09/04/2014 08:32 PM, Beverly Crook via Electronics-talk wrote:
> 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>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 12:58 PM
> To: "'Christopher Hallsworth'" <challsworth2 at icloud.com>; "'Discussion
> of accessible electronics and appliances'" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Christopher Hallsworth via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 11:47 AM
>> To: Electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA
>>
>> 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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