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| Version | Date Released | Status | Release Notes |
| 2012.1 | Mar 22, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · NVDA can announce the number of leading tabs and spaces of the current line in the order that they are entered. This can be enabled by selecting report line indentation in the document formatting dialogue. · NVDA can now detect key presses generated from alternative keyboard input emulation such as on-screen keyboards and speech recognition software. · NVDA can now detect colors in Windows command consoles. · Bold, italic and underline are now indicated in braille using signs appropriate to the configured translation table. Much more information is now reported in Microsoft Word documents, including: · Inline information such as footnote and endnote numbers, heading levels, the existance of comments, table nesting levels, links, and text color; · Reporting when entering document sections such as the comments story, footnotes and endnotes stories, and header and footer stories. · Braille now indicates selected text using dots 7 and 8. (#889) |
| 2012.1 RC 1 | Mar 14, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · NVDA can announce the number of leading tabs and spaces of the current line in the order that they are entered. This can be enabled by selecting report line indentation in the document formatting dialogue. · NVDA can now detect key presses generated from alternative keyboard input emulation such as on-screen keyboards and speech recognition software. · NVDA can now detect colors in Windows command consoles. · Bold, italic and underline are now indicated in braille using signs appropriate to the configured translation table. Much more information is now reported in Microsoft Word documents, including: · Inline information such as footnote and endnote numbers, heading levels, the existance of comments, table nesting levels, links, and text color; · Reporting when entering document sections such as the comments story, footnotes and endnotes stories, and header and footer stories. · Braille now indicates selected text using dots 7 and 8. (#889) |
| 2012.1 Beta | Feb 29, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · NVDA can announce the number of leading tabs and spaces of the current line in the order that they are entered. This can be enabled by selecting report line indentation in the document formatting dialogue. · NVDA can now detect key presses generated from alternative keyboard input emulation such as on-screen keyboards and speech recognition software. · NVDA can now detect colors in Windows command consoles. New Features: · NVDA can announce the number of leading tabs and spaces of the current line in the order that they are entered. This can be enabled by selecting report line indentation in the document formatting dialogue. · NVDA can now detect key presses generated from alternative keyboard input emulation such as on-screen keyboards and speech recognition software. · NVDA can now detect colors in Windows command consoles. · Bold, italic and underline are now indicated in braille using signs appropriate to the configured translation table. |
| 2012.1 Beta | Jan 31, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · NVDA can announce the number of leading tabs and spaces of the current line in the order that they are entered. This can be enabled by selecting report line indentation in the document formatting dialogue. · NVDA can now detect key presses generated from alternative keyboard input emulation such as on-screen keyboards and speech recognition software. · NVDA can now detect colors in Windows command consoles. · Bold, italic and underline are now indicated in braille using signs appropriate to the configured translation table. Much more information is now reported in Microsoft Word documents, including: · Inline information such as footnote and endnote numbers, heading levels, the existance of comments, table nesting levels, links, and text color; · Reporting when entering document sections such as the comments story, footnotes and endnotes stories, and header and footer stories. · Braille now indicates selected text using dots 7 and 8. (#889) |
| 2011.3 RC 1 | Nov 16, 2011 | New Release | 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 202 is now supported, which includes support for 64 bit Java Runtime Environments · In Mozilla Gecko (eg Firefox) Heading levels are now announced when using object navigation · Text formatting can now be reported when using browse mode in Mozilla Gecko (eg 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) |
| 2011.3 Beta | Oct 18, 2011 | New Release | 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 202 is now supported, which includes support for 64 bit Java Runtime Environments · In Mozilla Gecko (eg Firefox) Heading levels are now announced when using object navigation · Text formatting can now be reported when using browse mode in Mozilla Gecko (eg 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) |
| 2011.2 | Aug 8, 2011 | New Release | · Highlights of this release include major improvements concerning punctuation and symbols, including configurable levels, custom labelling and character descriptions; no pauses at the end of lines during say all; improved support for ARIA in Internet Explorer; better support for XFA/LiveCycle PDF documents in Adobe Reader; access to text written to the screen in more applications; and access to formatting and color information for text written to the screen. New Features: · It is now possible to hear the description for any given character by pressing the review current character script twice in quick succession. For English characters this is the standard English phonetic alphabet. For pictagraphic languages such as traditional Chinese, one or more example phraises using the given symbol are provided. Also pressing review current word or review current line three times will spell the word/line using the first of these descriptions. (#55) |
| 2011.2 RC1 | Jul 28, 2011 | New Release | · Highlights of this release include major improvements concerning punctuation and symbols, including configurable levels, custom labelling and character descriptions; no pauses at the end of lines during say all; improved support for ARIA in Internet Explorer; better support for XFA/LiveCycle PDF documents in Adobe Reader; access to text written to the screen in more applications; and access to formatting and color information for text written to the screen. New Features: · It is now possible to hear the description for any given character by pressing the review current character script twice in quick succession. For English characters this is the standard English phonetic alphabet. For pictagraphic languages such as traditional Chinese, one or more example phraises using the given symbol are provided. Also pressing review current word or review current line three times will spell the word/line using the first of these descriptions. (#55) |
| 2011.2 Beta | Jul 7, 2011 | New Release | · Highlights of this release include major improvements concerning punctuation and symbols, including configurable levels, custom labelling and character descriptions; no pauses at the end of lines during say all; improved support for ARIA in Internet Explorer; better support for XFA/LiveCycle PDF documents in Adobe Reader; access to text written to the screen in more applications; and access to formatting and color information for text written to the screen. New Features: · It is now possible to hear the description for any given character by pressing the review current character script twice in quick succession. For English characters this is the standard English phonetic alphabet. For pictagraphic languages such as traditional Chinese, one or more example phraises using the given symbol are provided. Also pressing review current word or review current line three times will spell the word/line using the first of these descriptions. (#55) |
| 2011.2 Beta | Jul 7, 2011 | New Release | · Highlights of this release include major improvements concerning punctuation and symbols, including configurable levels, custom labelling and character descriptions; no pauses at the end of lines during say all; improved support for ARIA in Internet Explorer; better support for XFA/LiveCycle PDF documents in Adobe Reader; access to text written to the screen in more applications; and access to formatting and color information for text written to the screen. New Features: · It is now possible to hear the description for any given character by pressing the review current character script twice in quick succession. For English characters this is the standard English phonetic alphabet. For pictagraphic languages such as traditional Chinese, one or more example phraises using the given symbol are provided. Also pressing review current word or review current line three times will spell the word/line using the first of these descriptions. (#55) |