We’re near the end of January and getting near release time for NVDA 2020.4. So let’s start there: NVDA 2020.4 The milestone step this week is the announcement of the translation string freeze. The freeze date is the 4th February. That means, translators have one more week to get their translations up to date to… Read More
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In-Process 28th January 2021
In-Process 14th January 2021
Welcome to 2021! We are slowly easing our way into the new year and catching up on correspondence. If you have emailed [email protected] over the break, you should receive a response shortly, if you haven’t already. First off, we have news on NVDA 2020.4, so let’s get right into that. NVDA 2020.4 Beta 4 Thank… Read More
NVDA 2020.4beta4 Available for Testing
Beta4 of NVDA 2020.4 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback. Changes from Beta3 Updates to translations. Changes from Beta2 Fix loss of… Read More
NVDA 2020.4beta3 Available for Testing
Beta3 of NVDA 2020.4 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback. Changes from Beta2 Fix loss of speech after removed audio device. Updates… Read More
NVDA 2020.4beta2 Available for Testing
Beta2 of NVDA 2020.4 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback. Changes from Beta1: Liblouis 3.16.1: added Afrikaans grade 2 to braille input/output… Read More
In-process 18th December 2020
We are almost at the end of another year, and what a year it’s been! We’re not done yet though, we’re hard at work on the next NVDA release, so let’s start with that: NVDA 2020.4 News NVDA 2020.4 Beta 1 has just been released. NVDA 2020.4 will include lots of new and improved features.… Read More
NVDA 2020.4beta1 Available for Testing
Beta1 of NVDA 2020.4 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback. NVDA 2020.4 This release includes new Chinese Input methods, an update to… Read More
In-Process 2nd December 2020
We’re now in the last month of 2020! The big news this week is NVDACon, which is this weekend. Depending on your time zone, it will either be this coming Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday. We’ve got full coverage to get you up to speed in this dedicated pre-NVDACon edition of In-Process, so… Read More
The Art of Sound Design
Justin MacLeod is an NVDA user, a sound designer and an NVDACon presenter. He spoke with Quentin about these things and more. The interview is available as a video, with the transcript of the conversation below that. Justin MacLeod is a sound designer who relies on NVDA to access his computer. Before he tells us… Read More
In-Process 20th November 2020
Now that NVDA 2020.3 has been out for a while and well received, we are working towards the next release on NVDA. In fact, work on that started well before NVDA 2020.3 was even released. We are not quite up to a beta version yet this week. So, it’s an excellent opportunity for another longer… Read More