NVAccess has released the latest version of NVDA v2015.1, a free and open source screen reader for Windows Operating System. Highlights of this release include browse mode for documents in Microsoft Word and Outlook; major enhancements to support for Skype for Desktop; and significant
fixes for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
About NVDA: 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.
What's New in NVDA 2015.1:
New Features:
• You can now add new symbols in the Symbol Pronunciation dialog.
• In the Input Gestures dialog, you can use the new "Filter by" field to show only gestures containing specific words.
• NVDA now automatically reports new text in mintty.
• In the browse mode Find dialog, there is now an option to perform a case sensitive search.
• Quick navigation (pressing h to move by heading, etc.) and Elements List (NVDA+f7) are now available in Microsoft Word documents by turning on browse mode with NVDA+space.
• Reading HTML messages in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and later has been majorly improved as Browse mode is automatically enabled for these messages. If browse mode is not enabled in some rare situations, you can force it on with NVDA+space.
• Table column headers in Microsoft word are automatically reported for tables where a header row has been explicitly specified by the author via Microsoft word's table properties:
◦ However, For tables where rows have been merged, this will not work automatically. In this situation, you can still set column headers manually in NVDA with NVDA+shift+c.
• In Skype for Desktop, notifications are now reported.
• In Skype for Desktop, you can now report and review recent messages using NVDA+control+1 through NVDA+control+0; e.g. NVDA+control+1 for the most recent message and NVDA+control+0 for the tenth most recent.
• In a conversation in Skype for Desktop, NVDA now reports when a contact is typing.
• NVDA can now be installed silently via the command line without starting the installed copy after installation. To do this, use the --install-silent option.
• Support for the Papenmeier BRAILLEX Live 20, BRAILLEX Live and BRAILLEX Live Plus braille displays.
Changes:
• In NVDA's Document Formatting settings dialog, the option to report spelling errors now has a shortcut key (alt+r).
• NVDA will now use the synthesizer/voice's language for character and symbol processing (including punctuation/symbol names), regardless of whether automatic language switching is turned on. To turn off this feature so that NVDA again uses its interface language, uncheck the new option in Voice settings called Trust Voice's language when processing characters and symbols.
• Support for the Newfon synthesizer has been removed. Newfon is now available as an NVDA add-on.
• Skype for Desktop 7 or later is now required for use with NVDA; earlier versions are not supported.
• Downloading of NVDA updates is now more secure. (Specifically, the update information is retrieved via https and the hash of the file is verified after it is downloaded.)
• eSpeak has been upgraded to version 1.48.04
Apart from new features and changes listed above, this version contains lot of bug fixes. Please read full notes from below link.
http://www.nvaccess.org/files/nvda/releases/2015.1/nvda_2015.1_changes.html
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