[nfbcs] Hi and What's New in NVDA

Sun Sep 7 19:15:29 UTC 2014

I'm on Gui-talk as well so look out for me on there.

Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu

On 07/09/2014 15:27, Steve Jacobson via nfbcs wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Welcome.  I think I have seen you on the GW Micro list.  You might also be interested in the GUI-Talk list on NFBNET as well, but you are welcome here, too.  I think this NVDA new additions list has already
> been forwarded there as well.  The GUI-Talk list is a general one that covers everything having to do with the Graphical User Interface.  This list tends more toward topics having to do with people who work with
> computers but there is a good deal of overlap between the two lists.  I think it is fair to say that both lists are interested in NVDA.  <smile>  Because we have these two lists, we try to keep computer-related
> discussions off of electronics-talk to avoid duplication as you already know.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:29:49 +0100, Christopher Hallsworth via nfbcs wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> First, I've just joined. Was redirected to this list after posting the
>> below to the Electronics Talk list. Now here is what's new in NVDA.
>> What's New in NVDA
>> 2014.3
>> New Features
>> â¬¢The sounds played when NVDA starts and exits can be disabled via a new
>> option in the General Settings dialog. (#834)
>> â¬¢Help for add-ons can be accessed from the Add-ons Manager for add-ons
>> which support this. (#2694)
>> â¬¢Support 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.
>> â¬¢Enhanced support 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.
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Report automatically inserted text such as a new bullet, number or tab
>> indent when pressing enter in editable documents and text fields. (#4185)
>> â¬¢Microsoft word: Pressing NVDA+alt+c will report the text of a comment
>> if the cursor is within one. (#3528)
>> â¬¢Improved 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.
>> â¬¢Support for 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.
>> â¬¢Microsoft Word: Report the distance from the left edge of the page when
>> the tab key is pressed. (#1353)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Excel: If the selected cell contains comments, they can be
>> now reported by pressing NVDA+alt+c. (#2920)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Excel: speech and braille 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).
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft PowerPoint: when moving shapes 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.
>> â¬¢The report location command (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.
>> â¬¢New language: Catalan.
>> Changes
>> â¬¢Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.5.4. (#4103)
>> Bug Fixes
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Useless information is no longer announced when tabbing in iTunes. (#4128)
>> â¬¢In certain lists in iTunes such as the Music list, moving to the next
>> item using object navigation now works correctly. (#4129)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Following same-page links in recent versions of Internet Explorer now
>> correctly moves to and reports the destination position in browse mode
>> documents. (#4134)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Outlook: Useless verbosity has been decreased in command
>> toolbars when navigating through certain dialogs. (#4096, #3407)
>> â¬¢Microsoft word: Tabbing to a blank cell in a table no longer
>> incorrectly announces exiting the table. (#4151)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Word 2010 spell check dialog: The actual misspelled word is
>> reported rather than inappropriately reporting just the first bold word.
>> (#3431)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Word: Reporting the existance and placement of comments is
>> more accurate. (#3528)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢NVDA no longer fails to run on recent Windows Operating Systems if the
>> user's Windows language is set to Serbian (Latin). (#4203)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢In Google Chrome and Chrome-based browsers, the URL of the document is
>> no longer reported when reporting the document. (#4223)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Outlook's Signature dialog: The Signature editing field is
>> now accessible, allowing for full cursor tracking and format detection.
>> (#3833)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Word: When reading the last line of a table cell, the entire
>> table cell is no longer read. (#3421)
>> â¬¢Microsoft Word: When reading the first or last line of a table of
>> contents, the entire table of contents is no longer read. (#3421)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢Numeric editable text fields in GoldWave are now handled correctly. (#670)
>> â¬¢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
>> â¬¢NVDA now has unified support for add-on documentation. See the Add-on
>> Documentation section of the Developer Guide for details. (#2694)
>> â¬¢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)
>> â¬¢It is now possible 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.
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>> --
>> Christopher Hallsworth
>> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
>> www.hadley.edu
>
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