Very exciting development indeed! It is up to all of us now to support the developers by testing functionality and posting issues and bugs.
Sagar +91 99 30 271732 intouchid: 2010-SAGAR007 <http://intch.me/2010-SAGAR007> "The evil of the world is made possible only by the sanction you give it." - John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged" On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Kotian, H P <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dipendra > What a lovely news to receive on the teachers day. > Very excited to read this and we all should translate this window of > opportunity to the best of use. > > > Harish Kotian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dipendra Manocha > Sent: 05 September 2013 23:25 > To: accessindia > Subject: [AI] NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN SCREEN READING SOFTWARE > > Dear Access-Indians > > I would like to share a very exciting development in the area of Screen > Reading software. As you all know that NVDA is an open source screen > reading > software that can be downloaded free of cost from nvaccess.org web site. > Its > latest version is 2013-2 released just few days ago. There are some good > developments related to NVDA here in India. > > First; A development team is now working right here in India contributing > new features and improving the screen reading software. The team is lead > by > one of our brightest software developer who himself is a screen reading > software user. He is Mr. Manish Agrawal. Manish works full time with > Sapient > Technologies at very senior knowledge resource and he now gives 40% of his > time specifically to the NVDA project. He is supported by one more > dedicated > developer and also very experienced screen reading software tester. > > IIT Delhi is also putting a team together to work under Manish to > contribute > in development of NVDA. > > All these efforts are under a joint project being implemented by CIS and > Saksham and supported by enable-India. Thanks to Hans Foundation to provide > financial support to run this project. > > Specific objective of getting a team here in India is to work on priorities > set by users in India. The team started its work by concentrating on > improving performance of NVDA in Microsoft office applications. Some of the > remarkable improvements that Indian team contributed to NVDA include: > > Added sentence reading command > Improved paragraph reading command performance specially with bullets and > auto numbering > Reading of protected documents in MS word > Announcement of suggestions in microsoft outlook in to or cc fields > Improvements of speech output in spell check dialogue box > Reading of status bar im all office 2010 applications > Etc... > This list is growing fast and we can all appreciate that how important > these > features are for us. > > More important is that we now have developers who are very willing to > listen > to us and work on what we think are most important features for us in our > jobs or educational environments. For example, One major reason due to > which > I myself was not able to switch to NVDA was that it did not announce auto > complete suggestions of mail IDs in Microsoft outlook. Global team had this > a very low priority because they always suggested to use thunderbird > instead > of MS Outlook. I could not make that shift due to my company policy and > responsibilities. Indian development team fixed this issue and for past few > months I am working very happily full time with NVDA as my full time screen > reading software. What this team now wants is that the priorities of bug > fixes or new feature requests should be set by the users themselves. So, > here comes the opportunity to make a screen reading software work where we > find that it is not working. If you would like to report an problem that > you > are facing use of NVDA or you feel NVDA is not providing information that > you need, please report it to: [email protected] > > Normally there are three releases of NVDA every year. How-ever, if you > would > like to try out builds of version that NVDA development team in India is > releasing, write to Suman with this intension on the e-mail provided above. > These releases are issued after every bug fix. These are not ensured for > stability and thus only those who would like to test out the new features > and provide feedback should get into this mode of using NVDA. > > Last but not the least, We are getting very close of provide licenses of > Eloquence to work with NVDA along with the license of Sangita and Vocaliser > voices. Saksham will be providing these licenses in a few weeks to come > after testing stability of whole new licensing system. > > I will also be writing soon about what is being done to add all Indian > languages in E-speak TTS. So, keep watch in this area as lot of exciting > developments are happening here. > > Wishing everyone all the best and a happy teacher's day. > > Dipendra Manocha > > > > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. 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