NVDA 2013.1 Released, Download Installer and Portable From Here

  NVDA (Non visual desktop access) is a free and open source screen reader for Windows platform from NV Access.  NVDA is also available as portable, you can copy it to a removable media and it can be run in any computer without installing. NVDA provides many features as provided by paid screen readers. NVDA is a good alternative screen reader for JAWS and Window-Eyes. Some of the features of NVDA is, OCR (Optical character Recognision), Support for SAPI4 and SAPI 5 compatible TTSs and more. NVDA comes with ESpeak synthesizer as default, but you can buy lisence for Elequence TTS.

What’s New:

• Basic support for editing and reading Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
• Basic support for reading and writing messages in Lotus Notes 8.5.
• Support for automatic language switching when reading documents in Microsoft Word.
• In Browse mode for MSHTML (e.g. Internet Explorer) and Gecko (e.g. Firefox), the existance of long descriptions are now announced. It's also possible
  to open the long description in a new window by pressing NVDA+d.
• Notifications in Internet Explorer 9 and above are now spoken (such as content blocking or file downloads).
• Automatic reporting of table row and column headers is now supported for browse mode documents in Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls.
• New language: Aragonese, Irish
• New braille translation tables: Danish grade 2, Korean grade 1.
• Support for braille displays connected via bluetooth on a computer running the Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba.
• Support for port selection when using Freedom Scientific displays (Automatic, USB or Bluetooth).
• Support for the BrailleNote family of notetakers from HumanWare when acting as a braille terminal for a screen reader.
• Support for older models of Papenmeier BRAILLEX braille displays.
• Support for input of computer braille for braille displays which have a braille keyboard.
• New keyboard settings that allow  the choice for whether NVDA should interrupt speech for typed characters and/or the Enter key.
• Support for several browsers based on Google Chrome: Rockmelt, BlackHawk, Comodo Dragon and SRWare Iron.
  Changes:
• Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.5.2.
• The laptop keyboard layout has been completely redesigned in order to make it more intuitive and consistent.
• Updated eSpeak speech synthesizer to 1.47.11.
  This version of NVDA contains many bug fixes also. Click below link to read full release notes.
  http://community.nvda-project.org/releaseChanges/nvda_2013.1_changes.html

Download:

Click below link to download NVDA 2013.1 Installer and Portable. Installer and Portable contain in a single file. You’ll be prompted while installing to make it portable or to install in to your computer. Download NVDA 2013.1

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