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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…

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Sean sitting at the NV Access table at SVRC. The table has an NV Access tablecloth, fliers, business cards and a laptop demonstrating NVDA.

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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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…

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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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"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

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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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In-Process is out! Featuring all the news about the new NVDA 2023.3, automatic Braille display detection, corporate giving, Seeing Differently's Tech Fest and more! Read now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6… #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Blind
Screenshot of the Select Braille Display dialog, showing the Braille display set to Automatic, and a range of Braille displays listed with checkboxes next to each.

In-Process 6th November 2023

The big news this time around is the release of NVDA 2023.3 NVDA 2023.3 NVDA 2023.3 is now available. This release includes improvements to performance, responsiveness and stability of audio output…
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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.
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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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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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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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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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#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
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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?!

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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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@Marco Old toot, but... there's now also MathCAT, which is open source and being written by Neil Soiffer (who implemented MathPlayer #a11y) to replace MathPlayer. There's an #NVDASR add-on already, and honestly, it's compact enough that I could see NVDA maybe just bundling it one day. The advantage over SRE is that it's written in Rust, so it's much smaller, probably faster and doesn't require a JS engine. addons.nvda-project.org/addons…

MathCAT

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