WWW/Talking Tech for May 11 2025 - an early celebration for GAAD - talking all about NVDA.

Helpful links from today’s program on NvDA.

Download the current stable version of NVDA at 

https://www.nvaccess.org/download/

We mentioned it a little bit, but we are currently in the Beta period for NVDA 2025.1.  

Some of the key updates in NVDA 2025.1

- NVDA Remote built in

- Speech responsiveness and other features for, SAPI4, SAPI5, and OneCore

- Improvements to add-on store auto updates

- New commands to manually refresh ocr

- Native selection in Chromium and Edge (Press NVDA+shift+F10 then copy as normal to copy text with formatting)

- Default input & output braille tables based on language

- Added a general setting to prevent the display turning off during say all or reading with braille. This option is enabled by default, but may result in increased battery depletion. 

- Braille works with say all config profiles

Add-ons:

Braille Extender, developed by André-Abush Clause and contributors

https://github.com/aaclause/BrailleExtender

Many features including Switching between displays or tables with shortcuts, and additional commands and support for a range of features.

PC Keyboard Braille Input

NVDA Spanish team (Available from the NVDA Add-on store)

Type Braille using six keyboard keys as on a perkins

Still on Braille, we published a lot of recent and upcoming features in a special edition of our In-Process blog back in October: 

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-23rd-october-2024/#datavalidation

And you can subscribe to that blog, and to all our announcements, updates, releases etc, via email at: 

https://eepurl.com/iuVyjo

Our training material is all available from our shop: 

https://www.nvaccess.org/shop/

We recommend starting with Basic Training for NVDA, which you can get as:

- Electronic text (Word, Text, ePub and HTML formats) for $35: 

https://www.nvaccess.org/product/basic-training-for-nvda-ebook/

Human-read MP3 audio for $52: 

https://www.nvaccess.org/product/basic-training-for-nvda-downloadable-audio/

UEB Braille for $71:

https://www.nvaccess.org/product/basic-training-for-nvda-braille-hard-copy/

Community links:

NVDA user group: 

https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda

Add-ons group: https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/

NVDA Developer Guide: 

https://download.nvaccess.org/documentation/developerGuide.html

Contact us:

Web: https://www.nvaccess.org/

Email: Info@nvaccess.org

Social Media - most of our users are on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess