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In-Process is out, featuring the latest on NVDA 2025.1, the recent NV Access strategy session, and Should you use Screen Layout? (H/T to @jscholes for your recent poll)

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NV Access | In-Process 12th June 2025

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@cachondo I did read it at the time, but I'll have to go back and have another look. Maybe an article about how we decide on defaults would be interesting? In the meantime, we DO have an issue requesting changing the default here if anyone is interested in working on it or has any comments not already covered in the issue: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

Set screen layout mode off by default · Issue #11716 · nvaccess/nvda

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. For an in-depth discussion, see: #11187 Essentially, screen layout can cause important information to be missed by users, the need for...
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@BTyson it can certainly impact speed of browsing. if you're using something like a neural voice, for example, sending a massive string with a single line of 20 horizontal links has a significant speech output delay when compared with browse mode off.
No worse than reading a whole paragraph further down the page, of course, but perhaps more common, depending on the sorts of sites one browses.
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