[Electronics-talk] What's new in NVDA

[Jim Barbour]

Ooops, sorry about that.  I always manage to type nfbcal.org instead of nfbnet.org.

I apologize, it is nfbcs at nfbnet.org

Jim

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 10:57:08PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
> 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 > > > >__________________
> >_____________________________ >
> 
>         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
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