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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

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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…
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#blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

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

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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…
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#screenreader #nvdasr #update #nvda #download #beta #newversion

NVDA 2024.1 Beta 8 is now available, with quite a few updates from Beta 7:

- A bug fix where emojis in Windows Terminals could cause a crash
- A bug fix for Native Selection mode in Word
- Bug fixes to the installer process and ensuring NVDA exits safely
- Improvements to documentation
- Updates to translations

To find out more about everything new in NVDA 2024.1 overall, and to download the latest beta, please visit: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #News #NewVersion

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NVDA 2024.1beta8 available for testing

Beta8 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 yo…
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#nvdasr #News #nvda #beta #newversion

We've had great feedback on our recent In-Process article on creating portable copies of NVDA. A lot of people use them for testing out beta's of new versions, particularly 2024.1. Have you been trying the 2024.1 betas, and do you use a portable version to do it? If you'd like to find out more, check out our article here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-9…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Testing #Beta #NewVersion #PreRelease #Accessibility

Screenshot of the NVDA launcher window showing the license agreement. Of the four action buttons, the "Create portable copy" button is selected.

In-Process 9th February 2024

We are continuing to get closer to the release of 2024.1. As well as a new beta for that, we also have a new 2023.3 point release. Also this week, we have a look at portable copies of NVDA. What ar…
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#Accessibility #nvdasr #testing #nvda #beta #newversion #prerelease

In-Process is out, featuring all the news about NVDA 2023.3.3 and NVDA 2024.1 Beta 7, plus an in-depth look at everything you need to know about portable copies of NVDA. Check it out at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-9… and be sure to update your copy of NVDA to the latest stable or beta version if you haven't already.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Blog #Newsletter #Accessibility #A11y

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In-Process 9th February 2024

We are continuing to get closer to the release of 2024.1. As well as a new beta for that, we also have a new 2023.3 point release. Also this week, we have a look at portable copies of NVDA. What ar…
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#a11y #Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

Thanks for the heads up @Marek Macko. A while ago I had some patches that improved tab key navigation in the @Mixxx DJ Software preferences window. Perhaps I should revisit that and try to polish it for one of the upcoming releases. Making the main window and actuall mixxx controls accessible to the platform specific apis is beyond my skills I am afraid but I already have some experiments i.e. sending mixxx control states through the controller API and using virtual midi port to read it and pass it to screen reader for text to speech. On linux this is already working for me with orca.
Another approach I haven't yet tested but am just thinking of might be reusing platform specific notification channels such as interfacing directly with a screen readers on windows such as #nvdasr controler client and using announcement role on linux to generate voice prompts for the screen readrers. This might have a similar effect to the end user than the virtual midi port but will be built into mixxx it-self.
@Mixxx DJ Software have you also got some ideas related to this please?
#nvdasr @Marek Macko @Mixxx DJ Software

Beta7 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. Changes from the previous beta include:
- When copying text in Microsoft Word with NVDA’s browse mode enabled, formatting is now also included
- Updates to documentation, Native selection mode, errors when session is locked / unlocked and translations.

Read more & download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Beta #News

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NVDA 2024.1beta7 available for testing

Beta7 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 yo…
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#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #beta

There are new NVDA releases!
- NVDA 2023.3.3 fixes a security issue. Read more & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3-…

- NVDA 2024.1 Beta 6 incorporates the same security fix, plus documentation & translation updates. Read more and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

Which version is right for me? If you'd like to check out what is new in the next version of NVDA, then grab the 2024.1 beta. If you're happy staying on the stable version - grab 2023.3. #NVDA #NVDASr #ScreenReader


NVDA 2023.3.3 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This is a security patch release to fix a security issue…
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#screenreader #nvdasr #nvda

NVDA double release day! NVDA 2023.3.2 fixes the fix that wasn’t fully fixed in the first fix. Please do read the full announcement and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3-…

And to go with it, NVDA 2024.1 Beta 5 includes the fix from 2023.3.2, as well as documentation, logging and translation updates! Read more and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #ScreenReader #News #Update #NVDAsr #A11y #Accessibility #Patch #Patchday


NVDA 2023.3.2 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This is a security patch release to fix a security issue…
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#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #patch #patchday

It's a double release day!

For those on 2023.3 we have a security point release, NVDA 2023.3.1. We encourage all users to update to this stable release. Full info & download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3-…

For those on the 2024.1 betas, we have a new one - 2024.1 Beta 4 includes the security patch above, plus more - read all the info and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDASr #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility #News #Breaking

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NVDA 2023.3.1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This is a security patch release to fix a security issue…
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#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #breaking #nvda

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Gerald Hartig as the new Chief Technology Officer at NV Access.

Please read the full announcement by Michael Curran, NV Access founder at nvaccess.org/post/welcoming-dr…

Please join all of the NV Access team in welcoming Gerald into our community!

#NVAccess #NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Accessibility #A11y #Software

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Welcoming Dr. Gerald Hartig as NV Access’s New Chief Technology Officer

By Michael Curran, NV access Founder We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Gerald Hartig as the new Chief Technology Officer at NV Access. With over a decade of expertise in software engineering and …
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#a11y #Accessibility #software #nvdasr #News #nvda #nvaccess

NVDA 2024.1 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing!

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

- Bug fixes for excluding speech modes from the cycle speech mode command from settings

- Improved battery time reporting message to pluralise hours/minutes/seconds correctly

- Updates to translations

Read the full details and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #News

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NVDA 2024.1beta3 available for testing

Beta3 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 yo…
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#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda

NVDA 2024.1 Beta 1 is now available for testing. Highlights include a new on-demand speech mode, the ability to drop speech modes from the NVDA+s command, a new "native selection" mode for Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store & ability to review add-ons & more!

Note this release breaks add-on compatibility and only works on Windows 8.1 and newer.

Full info and Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #Beta #NewVersion #A11y #Accessibility #News


NVDA 2024.1beta1 available for testing

Beta1 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 yo…
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#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #beta #newversion

The universe has cried and Kostyantin, the dev behind Whatsapp+ and Unigram+ NVDA addons, has delivered: Github-Release-Downloader, a NVDA addon that will happily download the latest release of any Github repo you throw at it. It's quite rudimentary at the moment i.e. we need to enter the URL manually, it can't handle multiple asset files etc. but I was just able to download some NVDA addons just fine. It's definitely a start.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/n7xn2fsv70c…
If you like this one and would like to support the dev, all the info you need is at t.me/unigramplus. Thanks, Kostya, and greetings to Ukraine! #NVDASR #Accessibility #Blind

UnigramPlus for NVDA 🇺🇦

Welcome to the UnigramPlus add-on channel. New versions of this add-on will be released here and here you can write your comments, feedback and suggestions on this add-on.
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#Accessibility #blind #nvdasr

In-Process is out! Featuring some more NVDA 2023.3 goodies, a few other things we've been up to, a sneak peek at something in NVDA 2024.1 AND a HUGE walkthrough of Object Navigation. If you're not familiar with how object navigation works after that, I'll give you a refund on the cost of your In-Process subscription! 🤑: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-4…

#NVAccess #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Tutorial #A11y #Accessibility

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In-Process 4th December 2023

Can you believe it’s December already?! As we speed towards Christmas, let’s check out some more presents from NVDA 2023.3. Plus, everything else going on in the world of NVDA, and a big tutorial o…
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#a11y #Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #tutorial #nvda #nvaccess

LLaVA-1.5 is an open-ish AI model which can provide image descriptions and allow follow-up interaction, akin to Be My AI. The best part is that you can run it locally on your computer if you have an appropriate GPU... or very, very slowly if you want to use your CPU. I thought it'd be cool to hook it up to #NVDASR so you can get image descriptions for the current navigator object and then ask follow-up questions. So, I wrote an NVDA add-on to do just that using llama.cpp. github.com/jcsteh/nvda-llamaCp…

GitHub - jcsteh/nvda-llamaCpp: NVDA add-on which allows you to use llama.cpp to obtain image descriptions and ask follow-up questions using AI models.

NVDA add-on which allows you to use llama.cpp to obtain image descriptions and ask follow-up questions using AI models. - GitHub - jcsteh/nvda-llamaCpp: NVDA add-on which allows you to use llama.cp...
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Congratulations to Gene, recipient of this year's RNZFB Chair's Award. It is wonderful to see your hard work & advocacy over many years acknowledged with this prestigious award. Gene has long advocated for NVDA & been a great friend to us in New Zealand. We're excited to see him honoured.

Read more at: blindlowvision.org.nz/news/cha…

#Blindness #Blind #Advocacy #RNZFB #BlindLowVision #A11y #Accessibility #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader

Gene Gibson receiving his Chair’s Award from Clive Lansink. The award is a beautiful wooden carving. Acting CE of Blind Low Vision NZ, Greg Hurn, and Board Secretary, Diana Chandler, look on.

Blind Low Vision NZ - Celebrating Achievement: The Chair's Award

The annual Chair's award is a prestigious honour bestowed upon a blind, deafblind, or low vision person who has shown remarkable achievement.
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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #blindness #nvda #advocacy #rnzfb #blindlowvision

#a11y #Accessibility #technology #nvdasr #nvda #expo

#Accessibility #nvdasr @NV Access

"Access to a free, fast & efficient screen reader has changed my life. Because of its qualities, my computer never crashes; updates are frequent & the software works well. It follows best the evolution of Windows and all software. Updating is fast & easy, it is available in all languages. The provision of add-ons makes it really efficient” – Silvie, France

You can help continue to provide NVDA free to all! nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Access #Accessibility #A11y

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It’s been 5 months since Australian Story aired an episode on NV Access founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh. The first Australian Story episode to be audio described. It was an incredible opportunity to share with a wider audience the importance of NVDA & our overarching message, that everyone deserves equal access to technology.

You can still watch the Australian Story episode, with Audio Description, on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sA…
#ScreenReader #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Access

Screenshot from the Australian Story website showing a preview of the episode. The image shows Jamie and Mick working with a Braille display and smiling.

AD-ENABLED | Best friends don’t want a cent from their big tech idea. This is why | Australian Story

Mick Curran and Jamie Teh are lifelong friends who share a love of music and technology. They're also blind.Both computer programmers, the pair saw an injust...
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#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #access #nvda

#blog #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda

#screenreader #nvdasr #events #nvda #seedifferently

Ok, updated #NVDASR and as usual when I do that sent a donation. NVDA makes my life better and I want it to keep existing. Thank you for making it.
#nvdasr

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version, which is the last version compatible with Windows 7.

This release includes audio updates and refreshable OCR. There are fixes for Braille, the add-on store, Office, Edge, Calculator and more!

Read the full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Accessibility

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NVDA 2023.3 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. This is…
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#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda

Is it just me, or is the interface for searching in #thunderbird really clunky with #NVDAsr? Seems like it takes a lot of steps just to view the list of results. I find myself resorting to iOS mail if I need to track down a message from a few days ago. Is it better with a different #Screenreader? #accessibility #a11y #Jaws #JFW
#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #thunderbird #nvdasr #jaws #JFW

NVDA 2023.3 RC 2 has been released. Changes from RC1 are translation updates for some languages. We encourage all users to download and test this RC and provide feedback. Please read the full what's new and download the release candidate from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3r… #NVDASr #NVDA #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion

NVDA 2023.3rc2 available for testing

The second Release Candidate (RC2) of NVDA 2023.3 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, thi…
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#screenreader #nvdasr #update #nvda #newversion

The NVDA 2023.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage ALL users to download this RC and give feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2023.3 release.

This release includes refreshable OCR, responsiveness improvements, braille fixes and many other bug fixes and improvements.

Read the full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3r…
#NVDA #NVDASr #ScreenReader


NVDA 2023.3rc1 available for testing

The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2023.3 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…
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#screenreader #nvdasr #nvda

Para los que usamos #NVDASR, hay buenas noticias para el futuro próximo. Un cambio en el modo de procesar el bucle de eventos reducirá considerablemente la latencia al responder a acciones del usuario y cambios de foco. github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…

Improve responsiveness of input and focus by pumping immediately instead of after a delay. by jcsteh · Pull Request #14928 · nvaccess/nvda

Link to issue number: None. Summary of the issue: Currently, everything in NVDA, including responding to keyboard input and focus changes, goes through the core pump. The core pump is always run wi...
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This week's In-Process is out! Featuring NVDA 2023.1, a feature on the new link destination reporting feature, an update on Windows 7 and 8 support, thanks to our wonderful community & handy ways to recover unsaved Word documents from Microsoft. Now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6… #NVDA #NVAccess #NVDAsr #ScreenReader

In-Process 6th April 2023

The big news this time around is the release of NVDA 2023.1! But there’s plenty more exclusive news below so let’s get into it: NVDA 2023.1 It’s new release time! NVDA 2023.1 is n…
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#screenreader #nvdasr #nvda #nvaccess

#nvdasr #jawsForWindows @bgt lover @Leonard de Ruijter

I spent several hours over the last few days implementing WASAPI audio output for NVDA for some reason. As I suspected, I don't think it's really any more responsive, but I'm hoping it might eventually fix some tricky bugs with the old WinMM implementation, though it'll probably introduce a bunch of its own. Still quite some way to go before it's fully featured; e.g. it doesn't support any device other than the default yet, nor can it recover if a device disappears. #NVDASR
#nvdasr

Are you sure it's a #windows thing? #NVDASR has an option called Use screen layout within its browse mode settings section. Perhaps toggling it will help with the Windows 10 computer as well. It's on by default meaning the virtual document content is displayed the way it's arranged on the screen rather than wrapped at link boundaries.
#Windows #nvdasr

So since this does not seem to be widely disseminated knowledge, the RH Voice speech synthesizer engine allows for training your own voice models by associating sets of sentences in a text file with their corresponding recordings as wav files. There is a tutorial about this on the project's Wiki at:
github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/wik….
I haven't tried it myself yet so can't answer possible questions, others have though so it surely works.
Happy hacking, creating SAPI, NVDA, Android voices or whatever else you imagine! ##SpeechSynthesis #Accessibility #NVDASR #Blind

Home · RHVoice/RHVoice Wiki

a free and open source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages - Home · RHVoice/RHVoice Wiki
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Special Saturday release of In-Process!

This week, we've got an update on our Casting Call, info on NVDA 2022.3.2 and 2022.4 Beta 3, the string freeze, a great testimonial from a user, and some info you never realised you needed on punctuation, alternative symbol names and how to change them. And why aren't we using the interrobang more?!

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#Beta #NVDA #NVDAsr #punctuation #interrobang


In-Process 19th November

We are continuing to move ever closer to NVDA 2022.4. Since last edition, we have a new beta AND we’ve announced the string freeze. Video request First up, a quick reminder of our Casting call for …
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#nvdasr #nvda #beta #punctuation #interrobang

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