NVDA 2018.1rc2 has just been released for testing. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be identical to the final 2018.1 release. Changes from rc1 to rc2 include: NVDA will no longer cause messages in Outlook or documents in Microsoft Word to be classed as changed… Read More

Hi everyone, Hasn’t February been a busy month so far? So busy, in fact, that I’m a week behind in posting In-Process! What has kept us busy? One reason is that last weekend, the staff and board of NV Access all got together in Brisbane to catch up on what has been happening over the… Read More

NVDA 2018.1rc1 has just been released for testing. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be identical to the final 2018.1 release. Highlights of this release include support for charts in Microsoft word and PowerPoint, support for new braille displays including Eurobraille and the Optelec protocol… Read More

Well, the first month of the year is already over, and hopefully, our werewolf followers didn’t get up to too much mischief during last night’s super-blue-blood-moon spectacular! Here at NV Access, we’ve been busy working on the next version of NVDA, so I thought I’d share a couple of things which are coming up in… Read More

Happy New Year everyone and a warm welcome to 2018! Well, it’s been a month since I last wrote. In that time, the NV Access team have been very busy relaxing, spending time with loved ones and eating too much! Well, speaking for myself at least… We hope you have also enjoyed your time since… Read More

Welcome to the very last In-Process for 2017! Wow, what a year it’s been. 24 issues of In-Process since it started on the 30th January, over 18,000 words, 4 NVDA releases (and hundreds of snapshot builds for those interested in trying pre-release features). We’ve had a lot of great community discussion, participation and fun. We’ve… Read More

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2017.4 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, has now been released. Highlights of this release include many fixes and enhancements to web support including browse mode for web dialogs by default, better reporting of field group labels in browse mode, support for new Windows… Read More

Can you believe it is nearly December already? There’s a certain anticipation in the air; an excitement building; time to start thinking about presents…. That’s right, it’s RC time! Which means we are VERY close to the gift of a new version of NVDA. With NVDA 2017.4 in the final phases of testing, we invite… Read More

NVDA 2017.4rc3 has just been released for testing. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be identical to the final 2017.4 release. Changes from RC2: Fixed performance issues in applications such as MIRC which draw a lot of text to the screen using Windows GDI. (#7803)… Read More

NVDA 2017.4rc2 has just been released for testing. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be identical to the final 2017.4 release. Changes from RC1 include: The message shown in NVDA’s About dialog is again correctly shown in the user’s configured language. It is again possible… Read More