NVDA is a popular, free and open source screen reader for windows from NV Access.
NV Access is pleased to announce that NVDA 2011.3 has been released. This release has been declared stable, which means it is suitable for production use
and is recommended for most users.
What's New in NVDA 2011.3?
Highlights of this release include automatic speech language switching when reading documents with appropriate language information; support for 64 bit
Java Runtime Environments; reporting of text formatting in browse mode in Mozilla applications; better handling of application crashes and freezes; and
initial fixes for Windows 8.
New Features
• NVDA can now change the eSpeak synthesizer language on the fly when reading certain web/pdf documents with appropriate language information. Automatic
language/dialect switching can be toggled on and off from the Voice Settings dialog. (
#845)
• Java Access Bridge 2.0.2 is now supported, which includes support for 64 bit Java Runtime Environments.
• In Mozilla Gecko (e.g. Firefox) Heading levels are now announced when using object navigation.
• Text formatting can now be reported when using browse mode in Mozilla Gecko (e.g. Firefox and Thunderbird). (
#394)
• Text with underline and/or strikethrough can now be detected and reported in standard IAccessible2 text controls such as in Mozilla applications.
• In browse mode in Adobe Reader, table row and column counts are now reported.
• Added support for the Microsoft Speech Platform synthesizer. (
#1735)
• Page and line numbers are now reported for the caret in IBM Lotus Symphony. (
#1632)
• The percentage of how much the pitch changes when speaking a capital letter is now configurable from the voice settings dialog. However, this does replace
the older raise pitch for capitals checkbox (therefore to turn off this feature set the percentage to 0). (
#255)
• Text and background color is now included in the reporting of formatting for cells in Microsoft Excel. (
#1655)
• In applications using the Java Access Bridge, the activate current navigator object command now works on controls where appropriate. (
#1744)
• New language: Tamil.
• Basic support for Design Science MathPlayer.
Changes
• NVDA will now restart itself if it crashes.
• Some information displayed in braille has been abbreviated. (
#1288)
• the Read active window script (NVDA+b) has been improved to filter out unuseful controls and also is now much more easy to silence. (
#1499)
• Automatic say all when a browse mode document loads is now optional via a setting in the Browse Mode settings dialog. (
#414)
• When trying to read the status bar (Desktop NVDA+end), If a real status bar object cannot be located, NVDA will instead resort to using the bottom line
of text written to the display for the active application. (
#649)
• When reading with say all in browse mode documents, NVDA will now pause at the end of headings and other block-level elements, rather than speaking the
text together with the next lot of text as one long sentence.
• In browse mode, pressing enter or space on a tab now activates it instead of switching to focus mode. (
#1760)
• Updated eSpeak speech synthesizer to 1.45.47.
Bug Fixes
• NVDA no longer shows bullets or numbering for lists in Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls when the author has indicated that these should not
be shown (i.e. the list style is "none"). (
#1671)
• Restarting NVDA when it has frozen (e.g. by pressing control+alt+n) no longer exits the previous copy without starting a new one.
• Pressing backspace or arrow keys in a Windows command console no longer causes strange results in some cases. (
#1612)
• The selected item in WPF combo boxes (and possibly some other combo boxes exposed using UI Automation) which do not allow text editing is now reported
correctly.
• In browse mode in Adobe Reader, it is now always possible to move to the next row from the header row and vice versa using the move to next row and move
to previous row commands. Also, the header row is no longer reported as row 0. (
#1731)
• In browse mode in Adobe Reader, it is now possible to move to (and therefore past) empty cells in a table.
• Pointless position information (e.g. 0 of 0 level 0) is no longer reported in braille.
• When braille is tethered to review, it is now able to show content in flat review. (
#1711)
• A text control's text is no longer presented twice on a braille display in some cases, e.g. scrolling back from the start of Wordpad documents.
• In browse mode in Internet Explorer, pressing enter on a file upload button now correctly presents the dialog to choose a file to upload instead of switching
to focus mode. (
#1720)
• Dynamic content changes such as in Dos consoles are no longer announced if sleep mode for that application is currently on. (
#1662)
• In browse mode, the behaviour of alt+upArrow and alt+downArrow to collapse and expand combo boxes has been improved. (
#1630)
• NVDA now recovers from many more situations such as applications that stop responding which previously caused it to freeze completely. (
#1408)
• For Mozilla Gecko (Firefox etc) browse mode documents NVDA will no longer fail to render text in a very specific situation where an element is styled
as display:table. (
#1373)
• NVDA will no longer announce label controls when focus moves inside of them. Stops double announcements of labels for some form fields in Firefox (Gecko)
and Internet Explorer (MSHTML). (
#1650)
• NVDA no longer fails to read a cell in Microsoft Excel after pasting in to it with control+v. (
#1781)
• In Adobe Reader, extraneous information about the document is no longer announced when moving to a control on a different page in focus mode. (
#1659)
• In browse mode in Mozilla Gecko applications (e.g. Firefox), toggle buttons are now detected and reported correctly. (
#1757)
• NVDA can now correctly read the Windows Explorer Address Bar in Windows 8 developer preview.
• NVDA will no longer crash apps such as winver and wordpad in Windows 8 developer preview due to bad glyph translations.
• In browse mode in applications using Mozilla Gecko 10 and later (e.g. Firefox 10), the cursor is more often positioned correctly when loading a page with
a target anchor. (
#360)
• In browse mode in Mozilla Gecko applications (e.g. Firefox), labels for image maps are now rendered.
• With mouse tracking enabled, moving the mouse over certain editable text fields (such as in Synaptics Pointing Device Settings and SpeechLab SpeakText)
no longer causes the application to crash. (
#672)
• NVDA now functions correctly in several about dialogs in applications distributed with Windows XP, including the About dialog in Notepad and the About
Windows dialog. (
#1853,
#1855)
• Fixed reviewing by word in Windows Edit controls. (
#1877)
• Moving out of an editable text field with leftArrow, upArrow or pageUp while in focus mode now correctly switches to browse mode when automatic focus
mode for caret movement is enabled. (
#1733)
Changes for Developers
• NVDA can now instruct speech synthesizers to switch languages for particular sections of speech.
◦ To support this, drivers must handle speech.LangChangeCommand in sequences past to SynthDriver.speak().
◦ SynthDriver objects should also provide the language argument to VoiceInfo objects (or override the language attribute to retrieve the current language).
Otherwise, NVDA's user interface language will be used.
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