NVDA 2024.1 + Portable

Apr 2, 2024
Highlights:
A new “on-demand” speech mode has been added. When speech is on-demand, NVDA does not speak automatically (e.g. when moving the cursor) but still speaks when calling commands whose goal is explicitly to report something (e.g. report window title). In the Speech category of NVDA’s settings, it is now possible to exclude unwanted speech modes from the Cycle speech modes command (NVDA+s). A new Native Selection mode (toggled by NVDA+shift+f10) is now available in NVDA’s browse mode for Mozilla Firefox. When turned on, selecting text in browse mode will also manipulate Firefox’s own native selection. Copying text with control+c will pass straight through to Firefox, thus copying the rich content, rather than NVDA’s plain text representation. The Add-on Store now supports bulk actions (e.g. installing, enabling add-ons) by selecting multiple add-ons. There is a new action to open a reviews webpage for the selected add-on. The audio output device and ducking mode options have been removed from the “Select Synthesizer” dialog. They can be found in the audio settings panel which can be opened with NVDA+control+u. eSpeak-NG, LibLouis braille translator, and Unicode CLDR have been updated. New Thai, Filipino and Romanian braille tables are available. There are many bug fixes, particularly for the Add-on Store, braille, Libre Office, Microsoft Office and audio.

Security Fixes:
Prevents loading custom configuration while secure mode is forced. (GHSA-727q-h8j2-6p45)
Bug Fixes:
Fixed bug which caused the NVDA process to fail to exit correctly. (#16123)
Fixed bug where if the previous NVDA process failed to exit correctly, an NVDA installation could fail to an unrecoverable state. (#16122)

Security fixes:
Prevents possible reflected XSS attack from crafted content to cause arbitrary code execution

Security fixes:
The fix released in NVDA 2023.3.1 was incomplete. The same issue should now be fixed correctly, preventing possible system access and arbitrary code execution with system privileges for unauthenticated users.

Fixed issue where some externally installed add-ons were unusable
Updates to translations

Updates to translations
Various minor fixes to the Add-on Store including:
added a warning dialog when opening the Add-on Store for the first time
improved handling of externally installed add-ons
improved handling of translated add-on information
Gesture and device detection bug fixes for Eurobraille displays
Bug fix for displaying the Braille category in NVDA preferences
Bug fix for handling focus changes, notably for Windows Mail
Bug fix for Braille viewer
Bug fix for Eloquence where uppercase words were spelled instead of spoken directly
Minor changes to the User Guide, particularly the temporary copy restrictions section.

Highlights:
This release includes major improvements to UIA support with MS Office. For Microsoft Office 16.0.15000 and higher on Windows 11, NVDA will use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word documents by default. This provides a significant performance improvement over the old Object model access.
There are improvements to braille display drivers including Seika Notetaker, Papenmeier and HID Braille. There are also various Windows 11 bug fixes, for apps such as Calculator, Console, Terminal, Mail and Emoji Panel.
eSpeak-NG and LibLouis have been updated, adding new Japanese, German and Catalan tables.
Important Note:
This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2021.3.5 and earlier.
Please note, after updating any software, it is a good idea to restart the computer. Restart by going to the Shutdown dialog, selecting “restart” and pressing ENTER. Updating software can change files which are in use. This can lead to instability and strange behaviour which is resolved by rebooting. This is the first thing to try if you do notice anything odd after updating.

Landmark is once again abbreviated in braille.
Fixed unstable braille display auto detection for Humanware Brailliant and APH Mantis Q40 braille displays when using Bluetooth.

есть такой вопрос - можно ли с помощью этой программы озвучить текст и сохранить его в аудио файл?
если - да = то как..
спасибо за ответы!

New Features:
Adds an input gesture for toggling settings for reporting the style of cell borders. (#10408)
Support for the new HID Braille specification which aims to standardise support for Braille Displays. (#12523)
Devices that support this specification will be auto detected by NVDA.
For technical details on NVDA's implementation of this specification, see https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/devDocs/hidBrailleTechnicalNotes.md
Add support for the VisioBraille Vario 4 Braille Device. (#12607)
Error notifications can be enabled (advanced settings) when using any version of NVDA. (#12672)
In Windows 10 and later, NVDA will announce the suggestion count when entering search terms in apps such as Settings and Microsoft Store. (#7330, #12758, #12790)
Table navigation is now supported in grid controls created using the Out-GridView cmdlet in PowerShell. (#12928)
Changes:
Espeak-ng has been updated to 1.51-dev commit 74068b91bcd578bd7030a7a6cde2085114b79b44. (#12665)
NVDA will default to eSpeak if no installed OneCore voices support the NVDA preferred language. (#10451)
If OneCore voices consistently fail to speak, revert to eSpeak as a synthesizer. (#11544)
When reading status bar with NVDA+end, the review cursor is no longer moved to its location. If you need this functionality please assign a gesture to the appropriate script in the Object Navigation category in the Input Gestures dialog. (#8600)
When opening a settings dialog which is already open, NVDA sets focus on the existing dialog rather than raise an error. (#5383)
Updated liblouis braille translator to 3.19.0. (#12810)
New braille tables: Russian grade 1, Tshivenda grade 1, Tshivenda grade 2
Instead of "marked content" or "mrkd", "highlight" or "hlght" will be announced for speech and braille respectively. (#12892)
NVDA will no longer attempt to exit when dialogs are awaiting a required action (eg Confirm/Cancel). (#12984)
Bug Fixes:
Tracking keyboard modifiers (such as Control, or Insert) is more robust when watchdog is recovering. (#12609)
It is once again possible to check for NVDA updates on certain systems; e.g. clean Windows installs. (#12729)
NVDA correctly announces blank table cells in Microsoft Word when using UI automation. (#11043)
In ARIA data grid cells on the web, the Escape key will now be passed through to the grid and no longer turn off focus mode unconditionally. (#12413)
When reading a header cell of a table in Chrome, fix the column name being announced twice. (#10840)
NVDA no longer reports a numerical value for UIA sliders that have a textual representation of their value defined. (UIA ValuePattern is now preferred over RangeValuePattern). (#12724)
NVDA no longer treats the value of UIA sliders as always percentage based.
Reporting the location of a cell in Microsoft Excel when accessed via UI Automation again works correctly on Windows 11. (#12782)
NVDA no longer sets invalid Python locales. (#12753)
If a disabled addon is uninstalled and then re-installed it is re-enabled. (#12792)
Fixed bugs around updating and removing addons where the addon folder has been renamed or has files opened. (#12792, #12629)
When using UI Automation to access Microsoft Excel spreadsheet controls, NVDA no longer redundantly announces when a single cell is selected. (#12530)
More dialog text is automatically read in LibreOffice Writer, such as in confirmation dialogs. (#11687)
Reading / navigating with browse mode in Microsoft Word via UI automation now ensures the document is always scrolled so that the current browse mode position is visible, and that the caret position in focus mode correctly reflects the browse mode position. (#9611)
When performing Say all in Microsoft Word via UI automation, the document is now automatically scrolled, and the caret position is correctly updated. (#9611)
When reading emails in Outlook and NVDA is accessing the message with UI Automation, certain tables are now marked as layout tables, which means they will no longer be reported by default. (#11430)
A rare error when changing audio devices has been fixed. (#12620)
Input with literary braille tables should behave more reliably when in edit fields. (#12667)
When navigating the Windows system tray calendar, NVDA now reports the day of the week in full. (#12757)
When using a Chinese input method such as Taiwan - Microsoft Quick in Microsoft Word, scrolling the braille display forward and backward no longer incorrectly keeps jumping back to the original caret position. (#12855)
When accessing Microsoft Word documents via UIA, navigating by sentence (alt+downArrow / alt+upArrow) is again possible. (#9254)
When accessing MS Word with UIA, paragraph indenting is now reported. (#12899)
When accessing MS Word with UIA, change tracking command and some other localized commands are now reported in Word . (#12904)
Fixed duplicate braille and speech when 'description' matches 'content' or 'name'. (#12888)
In MS Word with UIA enabled, more accurate playing of spelling error sounds as you type. (#12161)
In Windows 11, NVDA will no longer announce "pane" when pressing Alt+Tab to switch between programs. (#12648)
The new Modern Comments side track pane is now supported in MS Word when not accessing the document via UIA. Press alt+f12 to move between the side track pane and the document. (#12982)
Changes for Developers:
Building NVDA now requires Visual Studio 2019 16.10.4 or later. To match the production build environment, update Visual Studio to keep in sync with the current version AppVeyor is using. (#12728)
NVDAObjects.UIA.winConsoleUIA.WinConsoleUIA.isImprovedTextRangeAvailable has been deprecated for removal in 2022.1. (#12660)
Instead use apiLevel (see the comments at _UIAConstants.WinConsoleAPILevel for details).
Transparency of text background color sourced from GDI applications (via the display model), is now exposed for add-ons or appModules. (#12658)
LOCALE_SLANGUAGE, LOCALE_SLIST and LOCALE_SLANGDISPLAYNAME are moved to the LOCALE enum in languageHandler. They are still available at the module level but are deprecated and to be removed in NVDA 2022.1. (#12753)
The usage of functions addonHandler.loadState and addonHandler.saveState should be replaced with their equivalents addonHandler.state.save and addonHandler.state.load before 2022.1. (#12792)
Braille output can now be checked in system tests. (#12917)

Основные моменты:
NVDA 2021.2 представляет предварительную поддержку Windows 11. Хотя Windows 11 еще не выпущена, этот выпуск был протестирован на предварительных версиях Windows 11. В него включено важное исправление для Screen Curtain (см. важное примечание).
Инструмент исправления регистрации COM теперь может решить больше проблем при запуске NVDA. Есть обновления для синтезатора eSpeak и переводчика Брайля LibLouis. Также исправлены различные ошибки и внесены улучшения, в частности, для поддержки шрифта Брайля и терминалов Windows, калькулятора, панели эмодзи и истории буфера обмена.

Важное замечание:
В связи с изменением в Windows Magnification API, Screen Curtain пришлось обновить для поддержки новейших версий Windows. Используйте NVDA 2021.2 для активации Screen Curtain в Windows 10 21H2 (10.0.19044) или более поздней версии. Сюда входят инсайдеры Windows 10 и Windows 11. В целях безопасности при использовании новой версии Windows получите визуальное подтверждение того, что Screen Curtain делает экран полностью черным.
Обратите внимание, что после обновления любого программного обеспечения рекомендуется перезагрузить компьютер. Перезагрузите компьютер, перейдя в диалоговое окно выключения, выбрав "перезагрузить" и нажав ENTER. Обновление программного обеспечения может изменить используемые файлы. Это может привести к нестабильности и странному поведению, которое устраняется перезагрузкой. Это первое, что нужно сделать, если вы заметили что-то странное после обновления.

New Features:
Early support for UIA with Chromium based browsers (such as Edge). (#12025)
Optional experimental support for Microsoft Excel via UI Automation. Only recommended for Microsoft Excel build 16.0.13522.10000 or higher. (#12210)
Easier navigation of output in NVDA Python Console.
NVDA now reports the categories assigned to an appointment in Microsoft Outlook, if any. (#11598)
Support for the Seika Notetaker braille display from Nippon Telesoft. (#11514)
Changes:
In browse mode, controls can now be activated with braille cursor routing on their descriptor (ie. "lnk" for a link). This is especially useful for activating eg. check-boxes with no labels. (#7447)
NVDA now prevents the user from performing Windows 10 OCR if screen curtain is enabled. (#11911)
Updated Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) to 39.0. (#11943, #12314)
Added more mathematical symbols to the symbols dictionary. (#11467)
The user guide, changes file, and key commands listing now have a refreshed appearance. (#12027)
"Unsupported" now reported when attempting to toggle screen layout in applications that do not support it, such as Microsoft Word. (#7297)
'Attempt to cancel speech for expired focus events' option in the advanced settings panel now enabled by default. (#10885). This behaviour can be disabled by setting this option to "No". Web applications (E.G. Gmail) no longer speak outdated information when moving focus rapidly.
Updated liblouis braille translator to 3.17.0. (#12137). New braille tables: Belarusian literary braille, Belarusian computer braille, Urdu grade 1, Urdu grade 2.
Support for Adobe Flash content has been removed from NVDA due to the use of Flash being actively discouraged by Adobe. (#11131)
NVDA will exit even with windows still open, the exit process now closes all NVDA windows and dialogs. (#1740)
The Speech Viewer can now be closed with alt+F4 and has a standard close button for easier interaction with users of pointing devices. (#12330)
The Braille Viewer now has a standard close button for easier interaction with users of pointing devices. (#12328)
In the Elements List dialog, the accelerator key on the "Activate" button has been removed in some locales to avoid collision with an element type radio button label. When available, the button is still the default of the dialog and as such can still be invoked by simply pressing enter from the elements list itself. (#6167)
Bug Fixes
The list of messages in Outlook 2010 is once again readable. (#12241)
In terminal programs on Windows 10 version 1607 and later, when inserting or deleting characters in the middle of a line, the characters to the right of the caret are no longer read out. (#3200) This experimental fix must be manually enabled in NVDA's advanced settings panel by changing the diff algorithm to Diff Match Patch.
In MS Outlook, inappropriate distance reporting when shift+tabbing from the message body to the subject field should not occur anymore. (#10254)
In the Python Console, inserting a tab for indentation at the beginning of a non-empty input line and performing tab-completion in the middle of an input line are now supported. (#11532)
Formatting information and other browseable messages no longer present unexpected blank lines when screen layout is turned off. (#12004)
It is now possible to read comments in MS Word with UIA enabled. (#9285)
Performance when interacting with Visual Studio has been improved. (#12171)
Fix graphical bugs such as missing elements when using NVDA with a right-to-left layout. (#8859)
Respect the GUI layout direction based on the NVDA language, not the system locale. (#638); known issue for right-to-left languages: the right border of groupings clips with labels/controls. (#12181)
The python locale is set to match the language selected in preferences consistently, and will occur when using the default language. (#12214)
TextInfo.getTextInChunks no longer freezes when called on Rich Edit controls such as the NVDA log viewer. (#11613)
It is once again possible to use NVDA in languages containing underscores in the locale name such as de_CH on Windows 10 1803 and 1809. (#12250)
In WordPad, configuration of superscript/subscript reporting works as expected. (#12262)
NVDA no longer fails to announce the newly focused content on a web page if the old focus disappears and is replaced by the new focus in the same position. (#12147)
Strikethrough, superscript and subscript formatting for entire Excel cells are now reported if the corresponding option is enabled. (#12264)
Fixed copying config during installation from a portable copy when default destination config directory is empty. (#12071, #12205)
Fixed incorrect announcement of some letters with accents or diacritic when 'Say cap before capitals' option is checked. (#11948)
Fixed the pitch change failure in SAPI4 speech synthesizer. (#12311)
The NVDA installer now also honors the --minimal command line parameter and does not play the start-up sound, following the same documented behavior as an installed or portable copy NVDA executable. (#12289)
In MS Word or Outlook, the table quick navigation key can now jump to layout table if "Include layout tables" option is enabled in Browse mode settings. (#11899)
NVDA will no longer announce "???" for emojis in particular languages. (#11963)
Espeak now supports Cantonese and Mandarin again. (#10418)
In the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge, text fields such as the address bar are now announced when empty. (#12474)
Fix Seika Braille driver. (#10787)

Merge: Fix restart after install merge to beta