Beta 2 of NVDA 2023.2 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback.
Highlights
This release introduces the Add-on Store to replace the Add-ons Manager. In the Add-on Store you can browse, search, install and update community add-ons. You can now manually override incompatibility issues with outdated add-ons at your own risk.
There are new braille features, commands, and display support. There are also new input gestures for OCR and flattened object navigation. Navigating and reporting formatting in Microsoft Office is improved.
There are many bug fixes, particularly for braille, Microsoft Office, web browsers and Windows 11.
eSpeak-NG, LibLouis braille translator, and Unicode CLDR have been updated.
Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- 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.
Links
- Download NVDA 2023.2beta2 (SHA256 sum: E56CEBDBDE8466DF103675E35D9591F849AFF281C565A27E1E4081E90D376BED)
- What’s new in this release of NVDA
- Please report any issues on GitHub.
