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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


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


In-Process for the 19th October is out! Featuring updates on 2023.3, including the new audio settings and refreshable OCR, an update from the NASA Space Apps Challenge, and an important head's up for Windows 7 users. All that and more at nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… #NVDA #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Accessibility


Not sure if this is a bad idea, but I'd like an #NVDA setting to turn off the reading of URLs. Specifically, if something is identified as a URL on the text, it could just say URL, or if we want a bit more specificity, web URL, FTP URL, or whatever. Thoughts? I suppose this might be possible to do with a user ditionary.
#nvda


Есть ли шанс, что мы сможем побудить вас стать трендом #NVIDIA, если вы имеете в виду именно эту компанию? Я знаю, что такое их дескриптор NASDAQ, но #NVDA гораздо более широко известен как название программы чтения с экрана, которую мы делаем, а хэштег #NVDA очень широко используется для программы чтения с экрана. Это спасет оба наших сообщества от загрязнения каналов друг друга. Если вы хотите узнать больше о программе чтения с экрана, посетите наш веб-сайт www.nvaccess.org. Спасибо!


#инвестиции #AMD #NVDA смотрю эти акции по мультипликаторам и удивился крайне высокими уровнями по показателям P/E у AMD около 600 а у NVDA 210 при норме в индустрии 30. Такое ощущение, что из за прорыва ИИ рынок оторвался от реальности, а технологический сектор #NASDAQ слишком перегрет. У крайне недооценённого #INTC P/E 16. Лично держу 2% акции интела в портфеле.


This week's blog post is out! Featuring the Helen Keller Services AccessAbility awards, NV Access are hiring, RBlind on Lemmy, the Blind Accessible Research & Exploration Jam on Itch.io, and a walkthrough of #NVDA #Braille settings. Happy #DeafBlind awareness week! nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…


Today, we have a #testimonial in Greek from Vagelis. While we don't have a translation of Vagelis’ testimonial, he sent us this message to accompany his recording:
“I am sending you this message, so that you can see how much NVDA helps me in my daily life. I recorded a windows voice recorder to show that NVDA is helping me.”
It means so much to us to have our users from around the world share their experiences with us.
Thank you Vagelis for sharing how NVDA helps you in your daily life! #NVDA


Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!


#nvidia closes above a trillion in market cap. I know all the talk is about AI in the datacentre, but I think we might be underestimating just how amazing gaming/VR is going to become the next decade. finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA?p… #nvda


As a screen reader serving the blind & vision impaired, our users rely on audio rather than visuals, therefore this week we bring you an audio testimonial from Jacques in South Africa. Jacques is a technical specialist for a financial organisation.

“When dealing with inaccessible software, NVDA’s object navigation often saves the day…NV Access & add on contributors around the globe, your efforts are appreciated” - Jacques

Thank you Jacques for sharing how NVDA helps you!

#NVDA #Testimonial


We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for your continued support & input. It’s with your help that NVDA impacts lives across the globe. There are many more blind or visually impaired people who need our help globally. We rely on donations to help keep delivering our users uncompromising, quality, and updated software. You can help us continue our mission by donating at nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat…

Thank you everyone!
#AustralianStory #NVDA #NVAccess #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility


Australian Story was amazing! We loved filming it and we are so grateful to share the story behind NVDA. If you missed the episode it is available on ABC iView here: iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2302Q… or on YouTube:

Audio Description enabled version: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI
Non audio described version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw

Thank you everyone!
#AustralianStory #NVDA #NVAccess #AccessibleTechnology #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility


Just watched this documentary about Mick Curran and Jamie Teh the creators of NVDA, which is the free and open source Windows screen reader I use daily.
NVDA has been truly life-changing for so many people.
I think the documentary was well put together and I've learnt a thing or 2.
@NVAccess @jcsteh
#NVDA #blind #foss
youtube.com/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sA…


What a beautiful story of #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #software from #ABC news from Kristine Taylor and Susan Chenery - @kristineataylor@twitter.com and @chenery3@twitter.com - Jamie Teh - @jcsteh and Mick Curran - @md_curran@twitter.com, who both live with #blindness, created #NVDA software which is a desktop #ScreenReader - and continue to give it away for free.

abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

Get the software here on @github github.com/nvaccess/nvda

#a11y


Our In-Process blog is out. The big news is that our founders Mick and Jamie are featured on this Monday's episode of Australian Story! Plus we're hiring a software engineer, we share more of your inspiring user stories, and we've got some tips on testing with NVDA and using the Speech Viewer.

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #AustralianStory #blog


The cat is out of the bag! Australian Story is dedicating an episode to our founders, Mick and Jamie. NVDA and NV Access are featured, and we’re excited to share it with you! It airs on Monday, the 5th of June at 8pm on ABCTV, ABC iview or YouTube

#AustralianStory #NVDA #NVAccess #a11y #accessibility #AccessibleTechnology


Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds Thank you!


Not much to say about #AMD outside of that huge gap up after #NVDA earnings. Wow. 📈

Options data is likely going to be messy on AMD today and tomorrow as people take profits and contracts get assigned.

Dark pool sentiment for #AMD is still positive and the biggest dark pool level for the moment is $107.46 (by a lot).

Some bearish dark pool trades came through last night for AMD and NVDA, so exercise caution playing here at the top. Many traders will want to take profits, some will get greedy, and AI is uncharted territory.

The market will likely pick winners in the AI race and will likely pick them violently. Just don't find yourself without a chair when the music stops.

Not financial advice. Do your homework.

#stocks #trading #options


This week we bring you Nimer from the USA. Nimer started using NVDA around 2007 and has been involved in our community ever since. He is currently the owner of the NVDA community mailing group.
Nimer first began using NVDA for schoolwork over 15 years ago, and now utilises it in his workplace at Google.
“NVDA’s a really powerful tool for me that I rely on all the time” – Nimer
Thank you Nimer for sharing with us how NVDA continues to play a significant role in your life!
#NVDA #ScreenReader


Updated add-ons: wintenApps stable
Homepage: addons.nvda-project.org/
Download: github.com/josephsl/wintenApps…
SHA256: 66878c6221c3aed8fff41e0da2650102099fa324d5a19c780801695a4768a5c6
#NVDA #bot
#Bot #nvda


And TFW Friendica leaves in the hashtag from that debugging effort even though it isn't actually in the post. Jeez, glad I wasn't writing about #MyDeepestDarkestSecret.

In related news, silverbullet.md is a neat notetaking app, but its desktop app glitches #NVDA. I'll file an issue on that soon.


The "Report link destination" command in NVDA 2023.1 is very popular. Press NVDA+k to report exactly where a link goes. This is an important #security feature for users. Do you use it? Read more in our In-Process blog: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6… #a11y #ScreenReader #NVDA


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


Tossing a #STEM #accessibility grumble out into the wild:

So apparently, even as #MathML support is improving at the browser level, in order to get #NVDA to _read_ math, you need to install #MathPlayer -- which is fine in and of itself, but it really bothers me that the MathPlayer webpage (info.wiris.com/mathplayer-info) says both "Accessibility for web environments using MathPlayer is limited to obsolete browsers such as Internet Explorer 8" and (in bold) "We are not actively developing MathPlayer."

It seems really odd for such a necessary tool to have such prominent warnings (but then, of course, there's an #XKCD for everything: xkcd.com/2347/). And nearly every instructional page I found while looking for information on MathPlayer references using it in Internet Explorer, which is now officially dead (and is actually being remotely disabled on people's machines, which seems rather draconian).

On the bright side, once MathPlayer is installed, NVDA seems to be able to read (properly MathML coded) math just fine, even in Chrome, which the MathJax documentation says doesn't work; probably due to recent MathML support improvements in Chrome.

Accessibility in general I'm really enjoying learning more about. STEM accessibility is giving me headaches.


We're back in Australia and to celebrate, we've got a new 2023.1 Release Candidate! nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-1r… As well as all the previously mentioned 2023.1 goodness, this RC includes a fix for NVDA stopping reading in Kindle when turning the page. #NVDA #Kindle #release #update #screenreader


Inspired by the creative use of some nifty JAWS scripting and the power of iOS shortcuts as demonstrated by @IllegallyBlind, I have decided to try my hand at creating something similar for NVDA and I think I've succeeded. Note that I'm fairly new at this and by no means a coder so this is the simplest of simple, in fact, I'm still quite amazed that it works, actually.
What we need:
1. The NVDA Speech Logger addon available at:
github.com/opensourcesys/speec…
2. The following iOS shortcut:
icloud.com/shortcuts/999808bd1…
How to use:
1. Install both: the addon in your NVDA and the shortcut in your shortcuts respectively.
2. In NVDA's settings head over to the Speech Logger category and set the output path to your Dropbox root (that's what the shortcut assumes you're using, feel free to modify as needed);
3. Start logging the local speech with the assigned gesture (by default NVDA+alt+l);
4. Assuming the shortcut is configured properly (Dropbox authorized and all that jazz), launch it and a viewer will pop up with the fresh version of the log file at the time.
One nuissance I've found with this is that the viewer overlay will not surround the VO gestures so you need to focus it first through exploration before you can start reading the log. Also the gestures for the first and last item on the screen will move you to whatever else should be on your screen right now so you have to explore again to close the viewer. I assume that's a VO bug.
Also bear in mind that, while logging, anything your PC says will ultimately land in a regular text file and nothing apart from your Dropbox account is protecting it. Use with caution.
Feel free to suggest feedback.
#Accessibility #Tip #VoiceOver #NVDA #iPhone #iOS #Windows #Blind


Decided not to set up the #SteamDeck for development because that's not what I got it for, and without a PC it's been hard to move ahead with ideas for making it more #blind accessible with #NVDA. But I got it back a few hours ago and have started making some progress.

First up, a small NVDA script exposing a configurable gesture to exit a content recognition result. Without this, you can OCR fine from the touchscreen but can't close the resulting buffer to open another one later, meaning you needed a keyboard to OCR games. Now OCR-accessible games with controller support are fully playable with only the deck.

Next up, accessibility fixes to make this user-mode gamepad driver and configuration UI more accessible. I used it to play ShadowRine in its default configuration last night, but next I'd like to get it working with Hearthstone.

Getting there, and I'll do a guide on all this at some point.


I need some help with #nvda & #wikipedia.
I'm assisting a blind student in learning how to navigate the web using a laptop.
NVDA reads out the title first, then properties about the document, then the summary box on the side.
I can't find any way to skip that whole box and move straight to the main content. There is no main content landmark, nor is there a heading, not is it in the Contents section.
Take en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood… as an example. How can I navigate to the first sentence of the main article?
Thanks for any help.
#blind #accessibility


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