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11 months ago

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11 months ago

NVDA 2024.2 beta 1 is now available for testing from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2b…

For anyone who is interested in trying out what NVDA has to offer before release, we welcome your feedback.

Highlights
- Sound Split
- New Synth Settings ring & quick navigation commands
- New braille features & fixes, including "Display speech output".
- Updated eSpeak, adding new language Tigrinya.

There are many minor bug fixes for applications

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NVDA 2024.2beta1 available for testing

Beta1 of NVDA 2024.2 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…

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The Evil Chocolate Cookie move

in reply to NV Access 11 months ago

are add-ons broken again?

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Amir

in reply to The Evil Chocolate Cookie move 11 months ago

@evilcookies98 No.

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in reply to Amir 11 months ago

@amir @evilcookies98 No, we only ever break add-on compatibility with the .1 release. We have done it as the first release of the year only, so it doesn't cause confusion.

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Ooh, some nice things in here. I feel like single letter nav keystrokes need to be different in browsers than other apps, but saying that, please can we have sentence navigation in browsers? It's literally way the most efficient way to get to the start of the main text on most sites now. I really miss the sentence nav addon. Thanks.

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in reply to Dave Taylor 11 months ago

@davetaylor2112 NVDA 2024.2 DOES have a binding for a quick nav key for paragraph navigation, and just looking at upcoming features - not quite here yet, but there is a feature being worked on for sentence nav (in general, but including in browsers) - that looks like it's not quite ready and currently aimed at 2024.3: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…

Re your other comment - how would you have single letter nav keystrokes different between browsers & other apps?

Sentence navigation by mltony · Pull Request #16384 · nvaccess/nvda

Link to issue number: Closes #8518. Summary of the issue: Sentence navigation. Description of user facing changes Alt+Down/UpArrow now navigates by sentence in editables and in browse mode. Senten...

^GitHub

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Dave Taylor

in reply to NV Access 11 months ago

This paragraph, does this now apply in browsers too? It doesn't so far with the control arrow keys, which is a pity

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in reply to Dave Taylor 11 months ago

@davetaylor2112 The new paragraph navigation is a quick nav key, P, although control+up arrow and control+down arrow also work here for me. Note that in NVDA's "Document Navigation" settings you can control what constitutes a paragraph break - the default is to let the application handle it, but that means it doesn't necessarily work in some places like Notepad++. You can set it to requiring a single or double blank line

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Dave Taylor

in reply to NV Access 9 months ago

Hi, where is it I email logs to to help debug issues? I think I've found something relating to the weird keyboard issues I sometimes get. It actually seems to be related to Explorer as far as Ican tell.

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in reply to Dave Taylor 9 months ago

@davetaylor2112 Thanks face, email info@nvaccess.org - if you can set NVDA's log level (on general settings screen) to debug, then press NVDA+q, down arrow to "restart with add-ons disabled" and enter, recreate the issue, then send the logs and description etc to us.

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Dave Taylor

in reply to NV Access 9 months ago

Thanks, difficult indeed, because it's a random problem, and it may well be caused by an addon, and this won't help me work out which addon

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@davetaylor2112 see how you go, otherwise do send us what you can.

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Dave Taylor

in reply to NV Access 9 months ago

Oh, neat, I've discovered one of my version of Eloquence works with addons disabled, and it is even legal!

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in reply to Dave Taylor 9 months ago

@davetaylor2112 The Sapi 5 version will still work I expect because NVDA works with sapi5 voices natively so that particular one doesn't need an addon

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Dave Taylor

in reply to NV Access 9 months ago

This is actually the SAPI 4 from Kurzweil. I'm afraid I will not ever use Code Factory products, and don't like to support anyone that even suggests people should. They always were completely unethical and unprofessional

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Dave Taylor

in reply to NV Access 9 months ago

Yeah, it's an addon causing problems when Iswitch windows, but it doesn't show which one

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@davetaylor2112 If you disable all add-ons and then enable them one at a time, you'll eventually get to which one (or if you have a lot, enable half, if it works, enable half the rest, or if it doesn't work disable half of the ones you just enabled, etc.

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Sean | Ginsenshi The blindwolf

in reply to NV Access 11 months ago

hopefully I can change "find" from nvda + F 3 again. it was in the 2024.1 betas , but not in the rc/public release .

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in reply to Sean | Ginsenshi The blindwolf 11 months ago

@ginsenshi Where were you (what program was open / focussed) when you tried to change the keystroke? You can only change keystrokes which are available to you at the time you open it - so in say a web browser, find will be listed in Input Gestures, but in File Explorer, it isn't. It's here in my Input Gestures on 2024.1

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