[Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sun Sep 7 03:57:08 UTC 2014
Jim is right -- this isn't an assistive
technology list -- it is a home electronics and
appliances list. This does include phones.
And ... Jim, do you mean nfbnet.org, I don't see a nfbcs on nfbcal.org.
The link to join the nfbcs list is:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
Dave
>Hey Y'all, Just FYI, the nfbcs at nfbcal.org list
>is much more fruitful soil for these kinds of
>questions. This list of for mainstream
>electronics. Take Care, Jim On Thu, Sep 04, 2014
>at 06:32:07PM -0700, 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 > >
>--------------------------------------------------
> > 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 soundds 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
>Manaager for add-ons > >which support this.
>(#2694) > >•Suppport for the Calendar in
>Microsoft Outlook 2007 and above
>(#2943) > >including: > >â—¦Announcement of the
>current time when moving around with the arrow
>keys. > >â—¦Indication if the selected time is
>within any appointments. > >â—¦announcement of
>the selected appointment when pressing
>tab. > >â—¦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 supportt for the Inbox and
>other message lists in Microsoft > >Outlook 2010
>and above (#3834) including: > >â—¦The ability
>to silence column headers (from, subject, etc.)
>by turning > >off the Report Table row and
>column headers option in Document > >Formatting
>settings. > >â—¦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: NNVDA 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) > >•Microsoftt word:
>Pressing NVDA+alt+c will report the text of a
>comment > >if the cursor is within one.
>(#3528) > >•Improveed support for automatic
>column and row header reading in > >Microsoft
>Excel (#3568) including: > >â—¦Support of Excel
>defined name ranges to identify header
>cells > >(compatible with Jaws screen reader)
>. > >â—¦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. > >â—¦These commands can also now be
>used multiple times per sheet to
>set > >different headers for different
>regions. > >•Support forr automatic column and
>row header reading in Microsoft Word > >(#3110)
>including: > >â—¦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 fromm the left edge of
>the page when > >the tab key is pressed.
>(#1353) > >•Microsoft Word: provide feedback in
>speecch and braille for most > >available
>formatting shortcut keys (bold, italic,
>underline, alignment, > >outline level,
>superscript, subscript and font size).
>(#1353) > >•Miicrosoft 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 tto 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 brraille feedback for many more
>selection > >movement shortcuts (#4211)
>including: > >â—¦Vertical page movement (pageUp
>and pageDown); > >â—¦Horizontal page movement
>(alt+pageUp and alt+pageDown); > >â—¦Extend
>selection (the above keys with Shift added);
>and > >â—¦Selecting the current region
>(control+shift+8). > >•Microsoft Excel: The
>vertiical 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 shapees around a slide
>with the arrow > >keys, the shape's current
>location is now reported (#4214)
>including: > >â—¦The distance between the shape
>and each of the slide edges is
>reported. > >â—¦If the shape covers or is
>covered by another shape, then the
>distance > >overlapped and the overlapped shape
>are reported. > >â—¦To report this information
>at any time without moving a shape, press > >the
>report location command
>(NVDA+delete). > >â—¦When selecting a shape, if
>it is covered by another shape, NVDA
>will > >report that it is obscured. > >•The
>report location commaand (NVDA+delete) is more
>context specific in > >some situations.
>(#4219) > >â—¦In standard edit fields and browse
>mode, the cursor position as a > >percentage
>through the content and its screen coordinates
>are reported. > >â—¦On shapes in PowerPoint
>Presentations, position of the shape
>relative > >to the slide and other shapes is
>reported. > >â—¦Pressing this command twice will
>produce the previous behaviour of > >reporting
>the location information for the entire
>control. > >•New language:
>Catalan. > >Channges > >•Updated liblouis
>braille translator to 2.5.4. ((#4103) > >Bug
>Fixes > >•In Google Chrome and Chrome-bassed
>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 noo
>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
>headinggs because of WAI ARIA markup are
>now > >included in the Browse mode Elements list
>and quick navigation for > >Internet Explorer
>documents. (#4140) > >•Following same-pagge
>links in recent versions of Internet Explorer
>now > >correctly moves to and reports the
>destination position in browse
>mode > >documents. (#4134) > >•Microsoft
>Outlookk 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:
>UUseless verbosity has been decreased in
>command > >toolbars when navigating through
>certain dialogs. (#4096, #3407) > >•Microsoft
>word: Tabbing to a blank cell in a tablee 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 acttual 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 Offfice 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 recovvery 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 too 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 Chromee, 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 broowsers, the URL of the document
>is > >no longer reported when reporting the
>document. (#4223) > >•When running saay 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) > >•Microssoft 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
>somme 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
>GoldWWave 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 uniffied support
>for add-on documentation. See the
>Add-on > >Documentation section of the Developer
>Guide for details. (#2694) > >•When providing
>gesture bindings on a ScripttableObject 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 possibble to change the shortcut key used to
>start NVDA for > >locales where the normal
>shortcut causes problems. (#2209) > >â—¦This is
>done via gettext. > >â—¦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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