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NVDA 2026.3 beta 4 is now available for testing: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-3beta4/
Changes introduced in Beta 4:
- Updates to translations
- Added bug fix for lag in the Add-on Store when searching using Chinese characters
- Minor documentation changes
Please do keep testing out the beta and we encourage reporting any issues on GitHub.
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","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117387180043445361","date_published":"2026-10-05T07:43:38+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 07:43","date_timestamp":1791186218,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98680963","content_html":"@FreakyFwoof @bscross32 @TheQuinbox @simon @NikJov @x0 We've unblocked you Andre, but please use the form from now on :)
","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117387171699165152","date_published":"2026-10-05T07:41:31+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 07:41","date_timestamp":1791186091,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98668353","content_html":"@NikJov @x0 @FreakyFwoof The note at the bottom of that issue records:
\"You have been banned for using AI to spam the repository.
Previous warnings
[Submit add-on]: wikiFusion 1.5.2 #9154
[Submit add-on]: Minuter 1.0.0 #9152
[Submit add-on]: nvdaComposer 1.6.2 #9153
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Are you using the form, or trying to submit via an AI agent?
@amir @jcsteh My favourite was Halloween a few years ago, I encouraged people to get creative with NVDA - might have been here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-halloween-2017-edition/ One of the responses (& I can't find a link now) was from NVDA contributor Derek from memory, who created an add-on which played a spooky sound every few minutes or so at random intervals
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But what I am replying to say is, if not obvious, the reply from \"MSTDNSecure\" is a phishing attempt. Feel free to report them, but I wouldn't follow the link in their post.
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","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117370130408817300","date_published":"2026-10-02T07:27:42+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-02 07:27","date_timestamp":1790926062,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98520856","content_html":"@draeand @alexhall The issue noting problems from the original PRs is: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/20888
In the conversation on that issue, Sean linked to the release process to explain why we wouldn't attempt fixing one part of it in the middle of the beta cycle: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/community/releaseProcess.md
Is it this comment on the reverting PR you felt was curt? https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/20898#issuecomment-5885121435
Brief, yes, but he asked for a new issue just to start from a clean slate. Did he say somewhere he didn't believe the issue was real?
@mew @alexhall I appreciate your concern. As I mentioned to Alex, the reason for reverting at that point was that being in the beta cycle, things SHOULD be fairly stable. If there was a small, obvious fix, then that could be done, but in this case, for a complex PR, the best course was to revert & plan for a more stable implementation for NVDA 2027.1. Sean can be abrupt, but he is good at what he does & has no doubt implemented a lot of things you DO like :)
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","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117368233974976800","date_published":"2026-10-01T23:25:24+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-01 23:25","date_timestamp":1790897124,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98510679","content_html":"@alexhall 2/2 It's also important to note that features / fixes are first brought into alpha for testing. By the time we are in beta everything SHOULD be fairly stable - if we discover something isn't working right in beta, we need to be able to quickly fix it, or pull the associated PR. In this case, the latter - it doesn't mean the original work is just thrown away or that we won't attempt to fix it. I appreciate it is frustrating, and in this case I think there is momentum to solve it.
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","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117368214380788851","date_published":"2026-10-01T23:20:25+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-01 23:20","date_timestamp":1790896825,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98509542","content_html":"@alexhall @NikJov @garo Please note: Obviously there is a good amount of discussion in that PR and the associated issues. If you would like to contribute, please do so on GitHub, either in an open issue like https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/20902 or create a new issue if required (I'm just concerned that any important information posted here will be lost)
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\"Reason for revert
The PR #20177 greatly reduced terminal usability. Large console output was skipped, meaning users couldn't read content. #20649 attempted to mitigate this by making it more configurable, but the change is still not great.
Can this PR be reimplemented? If so, what is required for the next attempt
We need a way of safely pumping the text that avoids performance issues but also avoids skipping useful content\"
@KaraLG84 Thank you!
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","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117362251126705046","date_published":"2026-09-30T22:03:53+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-30 22:03","date_timestamp":1790805833,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98404272","content_html":"NVDA 2026.3 Beta 3 is now available for testing!
Download at https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-3beta3/
Changes introduced in Beta 3:
- Updates to translations
- Reverted bug fix to terminals, meaning NVDA may freeze again when substantial amounts of text are dumped to the screen. This is due to the bug fix not working correctly.
- Prevented Magnifier crash recovery from flashing to reduce seizure risk
@kaveinthran No need for a write up, it's fairly simple. We have 2 goals with the survey:
1) To give a benchmark for how we are going, that is the rating, and is a fairly standard scale used across industries - the \"Net Promoter Score\": https://www.qualtrics.com/articles/customer-experience/net-promoter-score/
2) We like to think we are pretty easy to get in touch with, but since we're asking, we offer an easy way to add extra comments in the open ended field.
We have done targeted surveys in the past, as you found for Braille etc.
","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117357746836863610","date_published":"2026-09-30T02:58:23+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-30 02:58","date_timestamp":1790737103,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98394499","content_html":"@kaveinthran Thanks! You're right, we could promote it more - I just didn't want to annoy people :)
","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117357285935774123","date_published":"2026-09-30T01:01:11+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-30 01:01","date_timestamp":1790730071,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98363805","content_html":"@asael @amir Good question. Here are the current open issues tagged for 2027.1 at this stage: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20milestone%3A2027.1
The best place to check though would be the announcements in the API announcements list - are you already subscribed to that? If not, I would definitely encourage you to subscribe, as many of the planned changes would have been announced there likely months ago: https://groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.org/g/nvda-api/about
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","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117354399188521286","date_published":"2026-09-29T12:47:02+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-29 12:47","date_timestamp":1790686022,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98348954","content_html":"@amir No problem, and I didn't think anything I said was news to you, it was more for anyone else reading the thread who might be less familiar with the process. Thanks as always for your support and for sharing information with the community!
","url":"https://fosstodon.org/users/NVAccess/statuses/117353063574057124","date_published":"2026-09-29T07:07:22+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-29 07:07","date_timestamp":1790665642,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98348274","content_html":"@amir This is expected as we introduce the breaking changes planned for 2027.1. We would generally recommend that if you are testing alphas for the new features you run these without add-ons. If you are testing add-ons you maintain then while you can't declare compatibility with 2027.1 yet, you can make changes for compatibility issues - but no guarantee things won't change further.
And yes, we're still working on the secure add-on API which will help alleviate this regular yearly dance :)
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- What's in NVDA 2026.3 Beta 2
- Changes to the Changes
- Our International Communities
- Copying last spoken text
- Talking about NVDA
- Show Screen Overview
Read it all at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-28th-september-2026/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #NewVersion #News #Newsletter #Changes #International
Hi everyone,
The NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2026 is now open: https://www.nvaccess.org/survey2026
We are always interested in understanding the satisfaction of our NVDA users, what is important to you & what we can do more effectively. The survey is anonymous & we encourage you to add comments on the survey.
We're interested in hearing from as many people as possible, so please feel free to pass this on to others.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Survey #Accessibility #Feedback
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NVDA 2026.3 Beta 2 is now available for testing! Changes from Beta 1 include:
- Updates to eSpeak and translations
- Fix Magnifier’s “Show screen overview”
- Improvements to alt+upArrow & alt+downArrow
- fix Magnifier colour filtering
- Update to the Chinese Word Segmentation
Read more & Download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-3beta2/
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- NVDA 2026.2
- The new magnifier
- A new beta already?
- Resetting to factory defaults
Read it all at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-8th-september-2026/#magnifier
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Updates #Information #Magnifier #beta #reset
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Hot on the heels of NVDA 2026.2..... We now have Beta 1 of NVDA 2026.3 available!
This release includes significant performance improvements, improvements to NVDA’s dialogs, and expanded touch screen input.
Read the full announcement and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-3beta1/
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Featuring:
- Magnifier (full screen, colour filtering, zoom, focus tracking)
- Improved touch gestures (links, form fields, etc)
- NVDA+x to repeat last spoken information
- Improved speech dictionaries
- Automatic Braille Display scrolling
Read more & download from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #New #NewVersion #Update #FOSS #Software #Download #Free
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Release Candidate 2 of NVDA 2026.2 is now available for download and testing from https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2rc2/
Changes introduced in RC 2:
- Updates to translations
- Fix bug preventing launch for Hungarian users
Please continue to test this release candidate and let us know of any issues you encounter!
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1) NVDA 2026.2 Release Candidate!
2) Automatically Scrolling the Braille Display
3) Getting help from others
4) New Unassigned Commands
5) Finding out more about what is new
Read all about it at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-24th-august-2026/
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https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2rc1/
NVDA 2026.2 includes:
- Magnifier (full screen, colour filtering, zoom, focus tracking)
- Improved touch gestures (links, form fields, etc)
- NVDA+x to repeat last spoken information
- Improved speech dictionaries
- Automatic Braille Display scrolling
- & much more!
#NVDA #NVDAsr #NewVersion #New #Update #ScreenReader
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcast432/117128410986366356
The University of Kansas are running a survey on braille literacy. All braille users are encouraged to participate
All #braille readers and others who work with braille: I urge you to take the Global Survey on Braille: Literacy, Access, and Innovation! The survey seeks to gather information about global trends in braille literacy, access to braille, and familiarity / usage of tools and technologies that support braille. Feel free to spread this far and wide, also. Read more and take the survey by going to https://tiny.cc/braillesurvey #BrailleLiteracy #TouchReader #Accessibility\n","summary":"","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess/117133299774101242","date_published":"2026-08-21T11:38:33+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-21 11:38","date_timestamp":1787312313,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96065559","content_html":"
I'm starting to think about the next blog post, but while I do that, what did you think of the last edition? Did I cover all the ways you use to get help from within NVDA? https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-7th-august-2026/#help
Perhaps next edition, we should cover how to get help from others? What would you include there?
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Help #Community #GetHelp #HelpingOthers #Accessibility
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NVDA 2026.2 Beta 11 is now available for testing!
Changes in Beta 11:
- Updates to translations
- Updated some messages related to magnifier
-Added a security fix to clear the braille display on system shutdown
Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta11/
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- NVDA 2026.2 Beta 10
- Getting Help
- WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey
- Thanks Acapela
- Moving by Sentence (and more!)
Read more at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-7th-august-2026/
","summary":"","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess/117052533565798253","date_published":"2026-08-07T05:18:38+00:00","author":{"name":"NV Access","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.fosstodon.org%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F311%2F036%2F687%2F677%2F246%2Foriginal%2Fdde294d72f85555b.png","_microblog":{"username":"NVAccess@fosstodon.org"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-07 05:18","date_timestamp":1786079918,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95267336","content_html":"NVDA 2026.2 Beta 10 is now available: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta10/
Changes since beta 9:
- Updates to translations
- Fixed touchscreen, touchpad & mouse input for magnifier
- Added gestures for braille automatic scroll commands
- Removed True Center Mode & Border Mode from the magnifier due to design bugs
- Remove non-functional “Custom” option from the math decimal separator setting
Please do keep testing & share feedback on GitHub: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues or via email.
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- Updates to translations
- Update Braille Reading and Automatic Scroll Rate in User Guide
- Fixed moving by sentence in Word (alt+downArrow/alt+upArrow).
- Changed quick access keys for magnifier settings to ensure they are unique
Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta9/
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How do you have yours set? Are you #Team50? Or #Team250?
If you're not sure what any of this is, head over to the blog & check it out: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-20th-july-2026/#characters
And if you like that, be sure to sign up to get the next one in your inbox first! https://www.nvaccess.org/newsletter
(If you are Team250 and would like even more, there IS an issue requesting this & there is work being done on it. See Issue #20478 on GitHub if interested)
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NVDA 2026.2 Beta 8 is now available for testing. Beta 8 includes:
- Updates to translations
- Improve magnifier behaviour when using higher DPI scaling
- Fix magnifier from interfering with opening dictionary dialogs
- Improve the handling of failing to activate the magnifier
- Block touch screen input when using the magnifier where possible, as it is not supported yet
Read more and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta8/
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- the loss of a community legend
- the latest NVDA 2026.2 beta updates
- what IS the \"Characters per line\" setting?
- Introducing \"Access Point\"
- and the System Accessibility Repair Tool
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-20th-july-2026/
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- Updates to translations
- Fixes NVDA prompting to restart after updating instead of logging off
- and a fix for reading PDF content in Foxit PDF Editor with browse mode
Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta7/
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Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta6/
Changes since Beta 5:
- Updates to translations
- Show the restart dialog after updating from within NVDA
- SAPI5 bug fix: skip over invalid voices
- SAPI4 32 bit bug fix: support more voices
- Improve conflict handling between magnifier and screen curtain
- Restore the ability for add-ons to register custom touch modes in availableTouchModes
In the latest Talking Technology podcast from Vision Ireland David chats with our own Training & Support manager, Quentin about new features coming to the next version of NVDA (which is currently in beta). The full episode goes for 1 hour, 54 seconds with the section on NVDA running from 17:48 to 42:18:
Full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zoTf2uXrcQ
NVDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zoTf2uXrcQ&t=1068s
You can subscribe to the podcast feed at:
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/981793.rss
#NVDA #NVDAsr #VisionIreland #TalkingTechnology
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NVDA 2026.2 Beta 5 is now available: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta5/
Changes introduced in Beta 5:
- Updates to translations
- Use math navigation category for one more math script
- Prevent NVDA freeze when brailling math with certain Unicode characters
- Improvements to Magnifier messages and settings names
Read more and download from the release announcement, and please keep filing any issues you find on GitHub: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues
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- NVDA 2026.2 Beta 4
- OCR Follow-up: Extracting text from inaccessible PDF files
- From the Community
- NVDA Gives George Flexibility
- 2026.2 Touch Improvements
Check it out here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-26th-june-2026/
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