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 Vocalizer TTS.
• The sounds played when NVDA starts and exits can be disabled via a new option in the General Settings dialog.
• Help for add-ons can be accessed from the Add-ons Manager for add-ons which support this.
• Support for the Calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and above
including:
◦ Announcement of the current time when moving around with the arrow keys.
◦ Indication if the selected time is within any appointments.
◦ announcement of the selected appointment when pressing tab.
◦ Smart filtering of the date so as to only announce the date if the new selected time or appointment is on a different day to the last.
• Enhanced support for the Inbox and other message lists in Microsoft Outlook 2010 and above
including:
◦ The ability to silence column headers (from, subject, etc.) by turning off the Report Table row and column headers option in Document Formatting settings.
◦ The ability to use table navigation commands (control + alt + arrows) to move through the individual columns.
• Microsoft word: If an inline image has no alternative text set, NVDA will instead report the title of the image if the author has provided one.
• Microsoft Word: NVDA can now report paragraph indenting with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported automatically when the new
Report Paragraph indenting option is enabled in Document Formatting settings.
• Report automatically inserted text such as a new bullet, number or tab indent when pressing enter in editable documents and text fields.
• Microsoft word: Pressing NVDA+alt+c will report the text of a comment if the cursor is within one.
• Improved support for automatic column and row header reading in Microsoft Excel
including:
◦ Support of Excel defined name ranges to identify header cells (compatible with Jaws screen reader) .
◦ The set column header (NVDA+shift+c) and set row header (NVDA+shift+r) commands now store the settings in the worksheet so that they are available the next time the sheet is opened, and will be available to other screen readers that support the defined name range scheme.
◦ These commands can also now be used multiple times per sheet to set different headers for different regions.
• Support for automatic column and row header reading in Microsoft Word
including:
◦ Support of Microsoft Word bookmarks to identify header cells (compatible with Jaws screen reader). - set column header (NVDA+shift+c) and set row header (NVDA+shift+r) commands while on the first header cell in a table allow you to tell NVDA that these headers should be reported automatically. Settings are stored in the document so that they are available the next time the document is opened, and will be available to other screen readers that support the bookmark scheme.
• Microsoft Word: Report the distance from the left edge of the page when the tab key is pressed.
• Microsoft Word: provide feedback in speech and braille for most available formatting shortcut keys (bold, italic, underline, alignment, outline level, superscript, subscript and font size).
• Microsoft Excel: If the selected cell contains comments, they can be now reported by pressing NVDA+alt+c.
• Microsoft Excel: Provide an NVDA-specific dialog to edit the comments on the currently selected cell when pressing Excel's shift+f2 command to enter comment editing mode.
• Microsoft Excel: speech and braille feedback for many more selection movement shortcuts
including:
◦ Vertical page movement (pageUp and pageDown);
◦ Horizontal page movement (alt+pageUp and alt+pageDown);
◦ Extend selection (the above keys with Shift added); and
◦ Selecting the current region (control+shift+8).
• Microsoft Excel: The vertical and horizontal alignment for cells can now be reported with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported
automatically if the Report alignment option in Document Formatting settings is enabled.
• Microsoft Excel: The style of a cell can now be reported with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported automatically if the Report
Style option in Document formatting settings is enabled.
• Microsoft PowerPoint: when moving shapes around a slide with the arrow keys, the shape's current location is now reported
including:
◦ The distance between the shape and each of the slide edges is reported.
◦ If the shape covers or is covered by another shape, then the distance overlapped and the overlapped shape are reported.
◦ To report this information at any time without moving a shape, press the report location command (NVDA+delete).
◦ When selecting a shape, if it is covered by another shape, NVDA will report that it is obscured.
• The report location command (NVDA+delete) is more context specific in some situations.
◦ In standard edit fields and browse mode, the cursor position as a percentage through the content and its screen coordinates are reported.
◦ On shapes in PowerPoint Presentations, position of the shape relative to the slide and other shapes is reported.
◦ Pressing this command twice will produce the previous behaviour of reporting the location information for the entire control.
• New language: Catalan.
This version contains changes and bug fixes also. To know more click below link
http://community.nvda-project.org/releaseChanges/nvda_2014.3_changes.html
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 Vocalizer TTS.
What's New:
New Features• The sounds played when NVDA starts and exits can be disabled via a new option in the General Settings dialog.
• Help for add-ons can be accessed from the Add-ons Manager for add-ons which support this.
• Support for the Calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and above
including:
◦ Announcement of the current time when moving around with the arrow keys.
◦ Indication if the selected time is within any appointments.
◦ announcement of the selected appointment when pressing tab.
◦ Smart filtering of the date so as to only announce the date if the new selected time or appointment is on a different day to the last.
• Enhanced support for the Inbox and other message lists in Microsoft Outlook 2010 and above
including:
◦ The ability to silence column headers (from, subject, etc.) by turning off the Report Table row and column headers option in Document Formatting settings.
◦ The ability to use table navigation commands (control + alt + arrows) to move through the individual columns.
• Microsoft word: If an inline image has no alternative text set, NVDA will instead report the title of the image if the author has provided one.
• Microsoft Word: NVDA can now report paragraph indenting with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported automatically when the new
Report Paragraph indenting option is enabled in Document Formatting settings.
• Report automatically inserted text such as a new bullet, number or tab indent when pressing enter in editable documents and text fields.
• Microsoft word: Pressing NVDA+alt+c will report the text of a comment if the cursor is within one.
• Improved support for automatic column and row header reading in Microsoft Excel
including:
◦ Support of Excel defined name ranges to identify header cells (compatible with Jaws screen reader) .
◦ The set column header (NVDA+shift+c) and set row header (NVDA+shift+r) commands now store the settings in the worksheet so that they are available the next time the sheet is opened, and will be available to other screen readers that support the defined name range scheme.
◦ These commands can also now be used multiple times per sheet to set different headers for different regions.
• Support for automatic column and row header reading in Microsoft Word
including:
◦ Support of Microsoft Word bookmarks to identify header cells (compatible with Jaws screen reader). - set column header (NVDA+shift+c) and set row header (NVDA+shift+r) commands while on the first header cell in a table allow you to tell NVDA that these headers should be reported automatically. Settings are stored in the document so that they are available the next time the document is opened, and will be available to other screen readers that support the bookmark scheme.
• Microsoft Word: Report the distance from the left edge of the page when the tab key is pressed.
• Microsoft Word: provide feedback in speech and braille for most available formatting shortcut keys (bold, italic, underline, alignment, outline level, superscript, subscript and font size).
• Microsoft Excel: If the selected cell contains comments, they can be now reported by pressing NVDA+alt+c.
• Microsoft Excel: Provide an NVDA-specific dialog to edit the comments on the currently selected cell when pressing Excel's shift+f2 command to enter comment editing mode.
• Microsoft Excel: speech and braille feedback for many more selection movement shortcuts
including:
◦ Vertical page movement (pageUp and pageDown);
◦ Horizontal page movement (alt+pageUp and alt+pageDown);
◦ Extend selection (the above keys with Shift added); and
◦ Selecting the current region (control+shift+8).
• Microsoft Excel: The vertical and horizontal alignment for cells can now be reported with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported
automatically if the Report alignment option in Document Formatting settings is enabled.
• Microsoft Excel: The style of a cell can now be reported with the report formatting command (NVDA+f). It can also be reported automatically if the Report
Style option in Document formatting settings is enabled.
• Microsoft PowerPoint: when moving shapes around a slide with the arrow keys, the shape's current location is now reported
including:
◦ The distance between the shape and each of the slide edges is reported.
◦ If the shape covers or is covered by another shape, then the distance overlapped and the overlapped shape are reported.
◦ To report this information at any time without moving a shape, press the report location command (NVDA+delete).
◦ When selecting a shape, if it is covered by another shape, NVDA will report that it is obscured.
• The report location command (NVDA+delete) is more context specific in some situations.
◦ In standard edit fields and browse mode, the cursor position as a percentage through the content and its screen coordinates are reported.
◦ On shapes in PowerPoint Presentations, position of the shape relative to the slide and other shapes is reported.
◦ Pressing this command twice will produce the previous behaviour of reporting the location information for the entire control.
• New language: Catalan.
This version contains changes and bug fixes also. To know more click below link
http://community.nvda-project.org/releaseChanges/nvda_2014.3_changes.html
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