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NVDA version 2022.1 has been released
What's new in this version :
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.
Note:
• This release breaks compatibility with existing add-ons.
New Features:
• Support for reporting notes in MS Excel with UI Automation enabled on Windows 11.
• In recent builds of Microsoft Word via UI Automation on Windows 11, the existence of bookmarks, draft comments and resolved comments are now reported in both speech and braille.
• The new --lang command line parameter allows overriding the configured NVDA language.
• NVDA now warns about command line parameters which are unknown and not used by any add-ons.
• In Microsoft Word accessed via UI Automation, NVDA will now make use of mathPlayer to read and navigate Office math equations.
◦ For this to work, you must be running Microsoft Word 365/2016 build 14326 or later.
◦ MathType equations must also be manually converted to Office Math by selecting each, opening the context menu, choosing Equation options, Convert to Office Math.
• Reporting of "has details" and the associated command to summarize the details relation have been updated to work in focus mode.
• Seika Notetaker can now be auto-detected when connected via USB and Bluetooth.
◦ This affects the following devices: MiniSeika (16, 24 cells), V6, and V6Pro (40 cells)
◦ Manually selecting the bluetooth COM port is also now supported.
• Added a command to toggle the braille viewer; there is no default associated gesture.
• Added commands for toggling multiple modifiers simultaneously with a Braille display
• The Speech Dictionary dialog now features a "Remove all" button to help clear a whole dictionary.
• Added support for Windows 11 Calculator.
• In Microsoft Word with UI Automation enabled on Windows 11, line numbers and section numbers can now be reported.
• For Microsoft Office 16.0.15000 and higher on Windows 11, NVDA will use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word documents by default, providing a significant performance improvement over the old Object model access.
◦ This includes documents in Microsoft Word itself, and also the message reader and composer in Microsoft Outlook.
Changes:
• Espeak-ng has been updated to 1.51-dev commit 7e5457f91e10.
• Updated liblouis braille translator to 3.21.0.
◦ Added new braille table: Japanese (Kantenji) literary braille.
◦ Added new German 6 dot computer braille table.
◦ Added Catalan grade 1 braille table.
• NVDA will report selection and merged cells in LibreOffice Calc 7.3 and above.
• Updated Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) to 40.0.
• NVDA+Numpad Delete reports the location of the caret or focused object by default.
• NVDA+Shift+Numpad Delete reports the location of the review cursor.
• Added default bindings for toggling modifier keys to Freedom Scientific displays
• "Baseline" is no longer reported via the report text formatting command (NVDA+f).
• Activate long description no longer has a default gesture assigned.
• Report details summary now has a default gesture (NVDA+d).
• NVDA needs to be restarted after installing MathPlayer.
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