Re: [AI] NVDA 2015.2 fixes by Indian team
nice dinesh sir. there was a talk about making NVDA accessible with finacle. is there any significant step in that? in excel, there is no way to read comments, input messages as far as i experimented. is there any way to do those things? On 8/11/15, Lissy Verghese lvmalayatt...@gmail.com wrote: Great work! Thank you! Lissy Verghese On 8/10/15, Dinesh Kaushal dineshkaus...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All, Apologies for somewhat late information. As you all know that NVDA 2015.2 was out a couple of months back. This email is update about the contributions made by NVDA India team. As you would remember that on this list we had conducted a survey about the features that all of us want to see in future releases of NVDA. I know some of us might already know about the features that have been added by India team, but still find below a complete update. Following is from what’s new of 2015.2 In new features, first 5 such as next and previous sentence navigation in Microsoft word, Indian Braille tables, cell overlap information in excel, reading excel charts, and listing of charts, comments, and formulas in excel are fixes from Indian team. In bug fixes, 2 issues i.e. Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages and When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported are from Indian team. Thanks for your support. We are trying to fix as many issues as possible, but we are limited by the resources to support our development efforts so we could not fix many of the issues that we wanted. This information does not include the work that we are doing in eSpeak. Full what’s new follows: 2015.2 Highlights of this release include the ability to read charts in Microsoft Excel and support for reading and interactive navigation of mathematical content. New Features •Moving forward and backward by sentence in Microsoft Word is now possible with alt+downArrow and alt+upArrow respectively. (#3288) •New braille translation tables for several Indian languages. (#4778) •In Microsoft Excel, NVDA now reports when a cell has overflowing or cropped content. (#3040) •In Microsoft Excel, you can now use the Elements List (NVDA+f7) to allow listing of charts, comments and formulas. (#1987) •Support for reading charts in Microsoft Excel. To use this, select the chart using the Elements List (NVDA+f7) and then use the arrow keys to move between the data points. (#1987) •Using MathPlayer 4 from Design Science, NVDA can now read and interactively navigate mathematical content in web browsers and in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. See the Reading Mathematical Content section in the User Guide for details. (#4673) •It is now possible to assign input gestures (keyboard commands, touch gestures, etc.) for all NVDA preferences dialogs and document formatting options using the Input Gestures dialog. (#4898) Changes •In NVDA's Document Formatting dialog, the keyboard shortcuts for Report lists, Report links, Report line numbers and Report font name have been changed. (#4650) •In NVDA's Mouse Settings dialog, keyboard shortcuts have been added for play audio coordinates when mouse moves and brightness controls audio coordinates volume. (#4916) •Significantly improved reporting of color names. (#4984) •Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.6.2. (#4777) Bug Fixes •Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages. (#4582) •If the Trust voice's language when processing characters and symbols option is enabled, the Punctuation/Symbol pronunciation dialog now correctly uses the voice language. Also, the language for which pronunciation is being edited is shown in the dialog's title. (#4930) •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, typed characters are no longer inappropriately announced in editable combo boxes such as the Google search field on the Google home page. (#4976) •When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported. (#3045) •Danish braille output now works again. (#4986) •PageUp/pageDown can again be used to change slides within a PowerPoint slide show. (#4850) •In Skype for Desktop 7.2 and later, typing notifications are now reported and problems immediately after moving focus out of a conversation have been fixed. (#4972) •Fixed problems when typing certain punctuation/symbols such as brackets into the filter field in the Input Gestures dialog. (#5060) •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, pressing g or shift+g to navigate to graphics now includes elements marked as images for accessibility purposes (i.e. ARIA role img). (#5062) Changes for Developers •brailleInput.handler.sendChars(mychar) will no longer filter out a character if it is equal to the previous character by ensuring that the key sent
Re: [AI] NVDA 2015.2 fixes by Indian team
Great work! Thank you! Lissy Verghese On 8/10/15, Dinesh Kaushal dineshkaus...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All, Apologies for somewhat late information. As you all know that NVDA 2015.2 was out a couple of months back. This email is update about the contributions made by NVDA India team. As you would remember that on this list we had conducted a survey about the features that all of us want to see in future releases of NVDA. I know some of us might already know about the features that have been added by India team, but still find below a complete update. Following is from what’s new of 2015.2 In new features, first 5 such as next and previous sentence navigation in Microsoft word, Indian Braille tables, cell overlap information in excel, reading excel charts, and listing of charts, comments, and formulas in excel are fixes from Indian team. In bug fixes, 2 issues i.e. Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages and When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported are from Indian team. Thanks for your support. We are trying to fix as many issues as possible, but we are limited by the resources to support our development efforts so we could not fix many of the issues that we wanted. This information does not include the work that we are doing in eSpeak. Full what’s new follows: 2015.2 Highlights of this release include the ability to read charts in Microsoft Excel and support for reading and interactive navigation of mathematical content. New Features •Moving forward and backward by sentence in Microsoft Word is now possible with alt+downArrow and alt+upArrow respectively. (#3288) •New braille translation tables for several Indian languages. (#4778) •In Microsoft Excel, NVDA now reports when a cell has overflowing or cropped content. (#3040) •In Microsoft Excel, you can now use the Elements List (NVDA+f7) to allow listing of charts, comments and formulas. (#1987) •Support for reading charts in Microsoft Excel. To use this, select the chart using the Elements List (NVDA+f7) and then use the arrow keys to move between the data points. (#1987) •Using MathPlayer 4 from Design Science, NVDA can now read and interactively navigate mathematical content in web browsers and in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. See the Reading Mathematical Content section in the User Guide for details. (#4673) •It is now possible to assign input gestures (keyboard commands, touch gestures, etc.) for all NVDA preferences dialogs and document formatting options using the Input Gestures dialog. (#4898) Changes •In NVDA's Document Formatting dialog, the keyboard shortcuts for Report lists, Report links, Report line numbers and Report font name have been changed. (#4650) •In NVDA's Mouse Settings dialog, keyboard shortcuts have been added for play audio coordinates when mouse moves and brightness controls audio coordinates volume. (#4916) •Significantly improved reporting of color names. (#4984) •Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.6.2. (#4777) Bug Fixes •Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages. (#4582) •If the Trust voice's language when processing characters and symbols option is enabled, the Punctuation/Symbol pronunciation dialog now correctly uses the voice language. Also, the language for which pronunciation is being edited is shown in the dialog's title. (#4930) •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, typed characters are no longer inappropriately announced in editable combo boxes such as the Google search field on the Google home page. (#4976) •When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported. (#3045) •Danish braille output now works again. (#4986) •PageUp/pageDown can again be used to change slides within a PowerPoint slide show. (#4850) •In Skype for Desktop 7.2 and later, typing notifications are now reported and problems immediately after moving focus out of a conversation have been fixed. (#4972) •Fixed problems when typing certain punctuation/symbols such as brackets into the filter field in the Input Gestures dialog. (#5060) •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, pressing g or shift+g to navigate to graphics now includes elements marked as images for accessibility purposes (i.e. ARIA role img). (#5062) Changes for Developers •brailleInput.handler.sendChars(mychar) will no longer filter out a character if it is equal to the previous character by ensuring that the key sent is correctly released. (#4139) •Scripts for changing touch modes will now honor new labeles added to touchHandler.touchModeLabels. (#4699) •Add-ons can provide their own math presentation implementations. See the mathPres package for details. (#4509) •Speech commands have been implemented to insert a break
[AI] NVDA 2015.2 fixes by Indian team
Dear All, Apologies for somewhat late information. As you all know that NVDA 2015.2 was out a couple of months back. This email is update about the contributions made by NVDA India team. As you would remember that on this list we had conducted a survey about the features that all of us want to see in future releases of NVDA. I know some of us might already know about the features that have been added by India team, but still find below a complete update. Following is from what’s new of 2015.2 In new features, first 5 such as next and previous sentence navigation in Microsoft word, Indian Braille tables, cell overlap information in excel, reading excel charts, and listing of charts, comments, and formulas in excel are fixes from Indian team. In bug fixes, 2 issues i.e. Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages and When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported are from Indian team. Thanks for your support. We are trying to fix as many issues as possible, but we are limited by the resources to support our development efforts so we could not fix many of the issues that we wanted. This information does not include the work that we are doing in eSpeak. Full what’s new follows: 2015.2 Highlights of this release include the ability to read charts in Microsoft Excel and support for reading and interactive navigation of mathematical content. New Features •Moving forward and backward by sentence in Microsoft Word is now possible with alt+downArrow and alt+upArrow respectively. (#3288) •New braille translation tables for several Indian languages. (#4778) •In Microsoft Excel, NVDA now reports when a cell has overflowing or cropped content. (#3040) •In Microsoft Excel, you can now use the Elements List (NVDA+f7) to allow listing of charts, comments and formulas. (#1987) •Support for reading charts in Microsoft Excel. To use this, select the chart using the Elements List (NVDA+f7) and then use the arrow keys to move between the data points. (#1987) •Using MathPlayer 4 from Design Science, NVDA can now read and interactively navigate mathematical content in web browsers and in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. See the Reading Mathematical Content section in the User Guide for details. (#4673) •It is now possible to assign input gestures (keyboard commands, touch gestures, etc.) for all NVDA preferences dialogs and document formatting options using the Input Gestures dialog. (#4898) Changes •In NVDA's Document Formatting dialog, the keyboard shortcuts for Report lists, Report links, Report line numbers and Report font name have been changed. (#4650) •In NVDA's Mouse Settings dialog, keyboard shortcuts have been added for play audio coordinates when mouse moves and brightness controls audio coordinates volume. (#4916) •Significantly improved reporting of color names. (#4984) •Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.6.2. (#4777) Bug Fixes •Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages. (#4582) •If the Trust voice's language when processing characters and symbols option is enabled, the Punctuation/Symbol pronunciation dialog now correctly uses the voice language. Also, the language for which pronunciation is being edited is shown in the dialog's title. (#4930) •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, typed characters are no longer inappropriately announced in editable combo boxes such as the Google search field on the Google home page. (#4976) •When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported. (#3045) •Danish braille output now works again. (#4986) •PageUp/pageDown can again be used to change slides within a PowerPoint slide show. (#4850) •In Skype for Desktop 7.2 and later, typing notifications are now reported and problems immediately after moving focus out of a conversation have been fixed. (#4972) •Fixed problems when typing certain punctuation/symbols such as brackets into the filter field in the Input Gestures dialog. (#5060) •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, pressing g or shift+g to navigate to graphics now includes elements marked as images for accessibility purposes (i.e. ARIA role img). (#5062) Changes for Developers •brailleInput.handler.sendChars(mychar) will no longer filter out a character if it is equal to the previous character by ensuring that the key sent is correctly released. (#4139) •Scripts for changing touch modes will now honor new labeles added to touchHandler.touchModeLabels. (#4699) •Add-ons can provide their own math presentation implementations. See the mathPres package for details. (#4509) •Speech commands have been implemented to insert a break between words and to change the pitch, volume and rate. See BreakCommand, PitchCommand,
