Hi everyone, Next weekend, June 1 – 3 2018, is the 5th annual NVDACon. It’s an online conference you can attend from the comfort of your own home. The theme this year is “Future-proofing NVDA”. There are sessions to suit regular users, as well as those interested in the more technical aspects of add-on development.… Read More

Welcome to another edition of In-Process. A special shout-out to all the mums out there celebrating Mother’s Day around this time. Many countries celebrated Mother’s Day on Sunday (the second Sunday in May). Some celebrate in March, or at other times, such as our friends in Paraguay, who celebrate today, May 15th. NVDA 2018.2 We’re… Read More

NV Access on Tek Talk and at Sight City with Babbage, new features in recent snapshot builds, and a workaround for a tricky Excel bug, all in this week’s In-Process!

Welcome to another In-Process! The NV Access team are all well rested from CSUN. We’ve caught up on correspondence from while we were away, so thank you for your patience! Sight City and Babbage Just as Mick gets back into the swing of things back home, he will be packing again. This time for Frankfurt,… Read More

Wow, March has been such a busy time, I just realised how long it has been since the last In-Process. I do apologise & hope you didn’t miss me too much! This past week, the NV Access team have been busy at the CSUN Adaptive Technology conference in San Diego California. During the week we… Read More

NV Access is today releasing a small update to NVDA 2018.1 to handle changes to the OneCore Windows speech in Windows 10. For those running Windows Insider builds, you may have noticed recently that OneCore Windows speech voices started talking a little bit like a chipmunk. This is due to their sample rate changing in… Read More

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2018.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, has now been released. Highlights of this release include support for charts in Microsoft word and PowerPoint, support for new braille displays including Eurobraille and the Optelec protocol converter, improved support for Hims and Optelec braille displays,… Read More

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