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NVDA 2024.2 Beta 3 is now available. As well as all the amazing things already announced, changes in Beta 3:
- Disable style navigation in Microsoft Word
- Add section on Add-on Store to Quick Start Guide
- Fixes for using Poedit with all plural forms
- Minor fixes for sound split
- Minor documentation fixes
- Updates to translations
Read the full what's new and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #FOSS #Update #Accessibility #A11y #Beta
NVDA 2024.2beta3 available for testing
Beta3 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…NV Access
Bitcoin, Ether in Stasis as SEC ETF Decision Looms, Nvidia Hits Record High
There is a 90% probability the SEC will approve a spot ether ETF, one observer said, drawing attention to the narrowed discount in the Grayscale Ethereum Trust.Omkar Godbole (CoinDesk)
Access for All: Two friends helping change opportunities for blind people with an open-source screen reader for all. Now on Microsoft Unlocked: unlocked.microsoft.com/nvda/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #ScreenReader #A11y #Microsoft #FOSS #OpenSource #Free #News
An open-source screen reader for all – Microsoft Unlocked
Read our Story, An open-source screen reader for all on Microsoft UnlockedMicrosoft
NVDA 2024.2 Beta 2 is now available!
NVDA 2024.2 includes Sound split, new Synth settings commands & quick nav commands, many Braille features & fixes & more!
Changes since Beta 1
- Disable style navigation in Outlook and non-UIA word
- Disable vertical, style and text
-QuickNav commands in Kindle
- Minor documentation fixes
- Updates to translations
Read the full what's new and download the new NVDA 2024.2 Beta 2 from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #FOSS #A11y
NVDA 2024.2beta2 available for testing
Beta2 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…NV Access
Our #GAAD edition In-Process #blog is out, featuring all the news on #NVDA 2024.2beta 1, the amazing mini-documentary @github made our new issue template and more!
Get on top of all the #GAAD #news here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Newsletter #GitHub #FOSS #ScreenReader
In-Process 17th May 2024
Welcome to this 2024 Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) issue of In-Process! Let’s kick things off with a new Beta! NVDA 2024.2 Beta 1 We are very pleased to share NVDA 2024.2 Beta 1. …NV Access
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.
Read the article here: github.com/readme/featured/nvd…
Watch the video (with AD) on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=N-y3yomLLS…
#GAAD #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Employment #Empowering #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource
Coding accessibility: Software by the blind, for the blind
NVDA and OSARA provide access to information, employment, community, and more, as well as empower a new generation to build a more accessible world.Mike Melanson (GitHub)
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
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #News #Accessibility #A11y #FOSS
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…NV Access
This week's In-Process is out, featuring all you need to know about copying text in Word, using Browse mode in Word, getting help in NVDA, and a special thanks to our friends at ISCB! All online now: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #Office365 #Office #Keyboard
In-Process 6th May 2024
We’ve previously covered a lot of the headline features of NVDA 2024.1. Today let’s look at a couple you may have missed. Specifically, copying text in Word, and getting help. Copying t…NV Access
This week's In-Process is out! Featuring the latest on NVDA 2024.1, add-on updates, the Microsoft FOSS Fund, Philanthropy Australia awards, an Interview with our GTO Gerald, and more! All available now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Newsletter #Blog #Awards #Interview #FOSS #Community
In-Process 22nd April 2024
Welcome to the 17th week of 2024! And welcome to In-Process. Let’s jump right in: NVDA 2024.1 A fortnight in, how is NVDA 2024.1 going for you? We’ve had lots of really positive reports! Have…NV Access
@NVAccess it would be great to be able to run #NVDA on #Linux. As a developer this would help a lot to test pages for NVDA. I have tested with #wine to a small extent it works, so maybe is possible to make it work on wine.
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager…
WineHQ - NVDA nvda_2023.2
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.appdb.winehq.org
Microsoft announced their latest round of FOSS fund recipients. We're thrilled to share that @NVAccess are among this quarter's recipients. From: github.com/microsoft/foss-fund
"A project of the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office, the FOSS Fund provides up to $10,000 USD in sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees."
Congratulations also to The GNU Compiler Collection, Urllib3, CLAP & MSW.
#OpenSource, #FOSS #Free #Software #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y
GitHub - microsoft/foss-fund: The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fund provides $10,000 sponsorsh
The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fun...GitHub
Our new Chief Technology Officer, Gerald Hartig, is being interviewed on Vision Australia Radio tonight at 8:10pm AEST (About 1hr 15mins after I post this). You can tune in online at: player.listenlive.co/65731/
#NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Interview #News #A11y
Vision Australia Radio Adelaide
Accessible news, information and entertainment. Vision Australia Radio offers a range of interesting and informative programs that feature readings from the latest newspapers, magazines and books.Vision Australia Radio Adelaide
In March 2023, I submitted #SpeechHistory to the #NVDA Add-On Store, which at the time was very new. I ran into errors with the process NVAccess had in place, some of which were caused by problems with my submission. Unfortunately, my PR was closed before I had time to address them, and I didn't have the mental energy at the time to try again.
I gave it another go this week, now that the Store and related procedures have undergone a lot of testing and growth. This time, I needed to be approved as a new add-on submitter, which is a totally reasonable requirement. Unfortunately the process seemed to become stalled on the NVAccess side with no information as to why, including after a follow-up from me. (Edit: it seems that I was approved as a submitter on April 2nd, but without any indication from NVAccess that this had taken place, and without the original add-on submission actually being accepted.)
Thankfully, somebody from the community approached me privately tonight, and offered to submit the add-on using their existing trusted contributor status. The end result is that Speech History is now in the Store, and I guess I'll come back in 2025 and hope for third time lucky.
In-Process is out, featuring all the news on the release of NVDA 2024.1, plus highlights from our trip to CSUN. Do check it out now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-5…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #FOSS
In-Process 5th April 2024
It’s been a busy few weeks for the team, culminating in the BIG release! Let’s get you up to speed: NVDA 2024.1 The big news of course, is that, yes, NVDA 2024.1 is finally out! I know some of thos…NV Access
If you missed it yesterday, #SpeechHistory for #NVDA has been updated for 2024.1 compatibility, and includes a new speech recording feature. Use NVDA+Shift+F11 to start recording, and NVDA+Shift+F12 to stop, at which point the recorded speech will be copied to the clipboard.
Note that the add-on should also be listed in the Store soon.
Download: github.com/jscholes/nvda-speec…
#SpeechHistory for #NVDA has been updated for 2024.1 compatibility, and even includes a new feature!
You can now capture multiple speech history items in realtime, which is useful for e.g. bug reports without copying from the Speech Viewer. Press NVDA+Shift+F11 to start recording, use NVDA as normal, and then press NVDA+Shift+F12 to stop recording. All recorded speech will be copied to the clipboard, with items separated by a line break (`\n`).
Download: github.com/jscholes/nvda-speec…
#GenAI hype in financial terms! #AI #nvidia #NVDA #generativeAI
youtube.com/watch?v=idxW9VGdXo…
The Stock Market is 'Priced to Insanity'.
Is the stock market currently 'priced to insanity'? In this video, we look at what the Dean of Valuation has to say. Aswath Damodaran recently gave an interv...YouTube
The third edition of David Kingsbury’s popular free digital book, “The Windows Screen Reader Primer: All the Basics and More,” is coming soon! Author David Kingsbury, an Assistive Technology Instructor here at the Carroll Center, wrote this comprehensive resource to help JAWS, NVDA, and Windows Narrator users work more effectively with the most important PC applications—like Microsoft Office, email clients, and web browsers.
Join author David Kingsbury via Zoom on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 pm ET to find out what’s new in this edition, hear a few tips and tricks, and ask your questions. Save your seat here: lnkd.in/e7ct_C8B
NV Access is very pleased to share the release of the NVDA 2024.1 Release Candidate. Unless any major issues are identified, this will be identical to the final release. We encourage all users to test the Release Candidate. Many updates including on-demand speech mode, native selection in Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store and much more! Read the full details and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1r…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #News #NewVersion #Release
NVDA 2024.1rc1 available for testing
The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will b…NV Access
#NVDA #CSUNatc24 #CSUN #accessibility
It's a busy time at NV Access HQ, and Abroad! This week's In-Process has all the news about CSUN, NVDA 2023.3.4, NVDA 2024.1, and a run through of the new Native Selection Mode in Firefox. Read more here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #CSUNatc24 #CSUN #CSUN24 #News #Newsletter #Blog #Release
In-process 15th March 2024
It’s a busy time at NV Access HQ (and abroad!) so let’s dive on in: NVDA 2023.3.4 As we wait for the new version of NVDA, we are pleased to announce that NVDA 2023.3.4 is now available.…NV Access
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NV Access are pleased to share the release of NVDA 2024.1 Beta 13.
Changes introduced in Beta 13:
- Bug fix for interacting with some NVDA controls such as the synth selection dialog and selectable checklist items
- Updates to translations
Read the full information and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Release #Software #FOSS #Beta
NVDA 2024.1beta13 available for testing
Beta13 of NVDA 2024.1 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 y…NV Access
Are you coming to the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim, California next week?
We're looking forward to catching up with everyone there! Don't forget to swing by Orange County 1-2 at 2:20 PM on Thursday 21st March for our session. Learn what is new and coming up in NVDA, meet our new CTO, Gerald Hartig, and have the chance to ask questions of the team!
csun.edu/cod/conference/sessio…
#NVDA #NVAccess #CSUNATC24 #CSUN #AssistiveTechnology #Conference #MeetUp #News #Presentation
I suspect you may not have meant what you came across as meaning when you tagged #NVDA? If you ARE providing training using our screen reader (which is called NVDA) to make your actions for climate change accessible to blind people, then we applaud you!
(Did you perhaps mean NVDA as an acronym for non-violent direct action? I only know the acronym in trying to figure out posts like this, #NVDA is much more commonly used to refer to our screen reader)
ECOLOGISTS RISE UP!
Next week, @ScientistRebellion will be at the Nordic #Oikos 2024 conference in Lund, Sweden. We'll hold 2 workshops, discussing ways scientists can change tactics and re-embrace #advocacy and #activism in the #Climate and #EcologicalEmergency. We will also feature an #NVDA training. Everyone is welcome!
Tuesday March 12th at 13:30-15:30, Biology building, Sölvegatan 35, Lund. Room: D215 Cerebrum
Friday March 15th at 13:30-15:30, Ecology Building, Sölvegatan 37, Lund. Room: Heden (G110)
nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/…
Beta12 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download & testing.
We know there have been a lot of betas, but THIS is the final planned beta for 2024.1. We'd like to thank everyone who has been testing these and reporting issues to us.
Full info & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…
Changes introduced in Beta 12:
- Bug fix for emojis and unicode symbols in NVDA dialogs
- No longer report "native copy"
- Updated our GUI framework wxPython.
- Updates to translations
NVDA 2024.1beta12 available for testing
Beta12 of NVDA 2024.1 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 y…NV Access
This is boggling to me, a drop-in replacement of CUDA and neither #Intel nor #AMD saw it as worth paying to develop? How can chip companies look at NVidia’s #NVDA $2T valuation and “can’t keep ‘em in stock” situation and say “Nah, why would we pay some dude to make us a viable alternative”? (I mean, maybe the library sucks or competing with private projects, but it’s a single developer, Michael, how much could that cost? A million dollars?)
cgchannel.com/2024/02/open-sou…
Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs | CG Channel
Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.www.cgchannel.com
Microsoft Word Training for NVDA (eBook)
The official training material for Microsoft Word 2010 through to the latest 2021 and Office 365 with NVDA. Concepts covered range from getting started with Microsoft Word to advanced skills such a…NV Access
"Nvidia shares surge past $700 driven by demand for AI."
LLMs are deep learning layered neural networks of matrices, during forward propagation, inputs are multiplied by weight matrices and the results are added together to produce an output which becomes the next layer's input hence CUDA and floating point arithmetic.
But what if you didn't need multiplication? Seems this news has not reached the market yet. arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11453.pdf
In-Process is out - live from Melbourne! Featuring news on NVDA 2024.1 Beta 10, the WebAIM screen reader user survey results, GitHub's accessibility survey and the results of our own Mastodon survey! Read it now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Newsletter #Blog
In-Process 29th February 2024
There’s a lot to cover this time as we approach the end of February. Lucky we have an extra day or I likely wouldn’t have got this out until next month! Strategy planning Hello from Melbourne! This…NV Access
Thanks for your patience with the beta glitch last week. We're pleased to advise we've got rid of those nasty bugs. NVDA 2024.1 Beta 10 is now available, and we promise the bugs in this version are much friendlier! Please do head to nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b… for all the details & to download.
Changes since Beta 7:
- Fix for emojis in terminals
- Native Selection bug fix in Word
- Installer fixes
- Updates to docs & translations
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #Beta #NewVersion #Download
NVDA 2024.1beta10 available for testing
Beta10 of NVDA 2024.1 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 y…NV Access
