Beta4 of NVDA 2024.4 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 using our issue reporting process.
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Important Note:
- The minimum required version of Poedit that works with NVDA is now version 3.5.
Links
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Download NVDA 2024.4beta4
- SHA256 sum: 7968a514020d27ce7c7cc842ce7c6bb36625cf21fc122a2204fb8a26057af489
- What’s new in this release of NVDA
- Please report any issues on GitHub.
Highlights
This release includes a number of improvements in Microsoft Office, braille, and document formatting.
In Word or Excel, it is now possible to double-press the comment gesture to read the comment or note in a browsable dialog. You can now use the review cursor selection command to select text in PowerPoint. NVDA also no longer brailles garbage characters when showing row or column header text in tables in Word when using the object model.
NVDA can now be configured to report font attributes in speech and braille separately.
A new setting has been added to configure the timeout to perform a multiple press gesture, such as the report time/date command.
You can now configure how NVDA shows text formatting in braille, and set NVDA to show the start of paragraphs in braille. NVDA can now speak the character at the cursor when performing a braille cursor routing action. Cursor routing reliability has been improved, and support for routing keys in PowerPoint has been added. All lines of cells will now be used when using a multi-line braille display via HID braille. NVDA is no longer unstable after restarting NVDA during an automatic Braille Bluetooth scan.
The minimum required version of Poedit that works with NVDA is now version 3.5.
eSpeak NG has been updated, adding support for the Faroese and Xextan languages.
LibLouis has been updated, adding new Braille tables for Thai and Greek international braille with single-cell accented letters.
There have also been a number of fixes, including to mouse tracking in Firefox, and the on-demand speech mode.
Changes introduced in Beta 4:
- Fixed the visual layout of NVDA’s Braille Settings page.
- Fixed an issue causing text not related to shortcut keys to appear in the Commands Quick Reference.
- Updates to translations.
Changes introduced in Beta 3:
- Updated LibLouis Braille translator to 3.31.0.
- Fixed translation of numbers in Spanish Braille.
- New Braille tables:
- Thai grade 1
- Greek international Braille (single-cell accented letters)
- Renamed tables:
- “Thai 6 dot” was renamed to “Thai grade 0” for consistency reasons.
- The existing “Greek international braille” table was renamed to “Greek international braille (2-cell accented letters)” to clarify the distinction between the two Greek systems.
- Updates to translations.
Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- The stability of NVDA’s Poedit support has been improved with the side effect that the minimum required version of Poedit is now version 3.5.
- NVDA no longer freezes while checking for add-on updates.
- Updates to translations.
