[Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA

Poppa Bear heavens4real at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 03:04:02 UTC 2014 

Quite a few are the same as the Jaws screen reader FYI.

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To: Beverly Crook; Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA

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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> 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 
>> control+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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