[nvda] Re: New version of NonVisual Desktop Access released

I did report this a while back on the NVDA list, but this still hasn't
been fixed, even in the latest revision. Basically, if I attempt to open
the Synthesizer dialogue from within the preferences menu of NVDA, the
programme crashes. Could this be fixed as soon as possible please?
Thanks.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:51:27 +1100, "Michael Curran" <mick@xxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Today I posted revision 315 of NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) to the
> NVDA 
> website:
> http://www.kulgan.net/nvda/
> 
> NonVisual Desktop Access is an entirely free (and open-source) screen
> reader 
> for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
> 
> It does much more than Microsoft's Narator (including support for
> Internet 
> Explorer 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
> Outlook 
> Express, Dos console windows, and much more).
> 
> I'm sure there are still bugs, and support for some applications could be
> a 
> little better, but I personally now use NVDA as my day-to-day screen
> reader, 
> and I know of others who are now starting to do the same.
> 
> Of course the only way for NVDA to grow and become better is for people
> to 
> use it, and report bugs and suggest new features.
> 
> Also, I am always interested in help from other programmers who have
> skills 
> in either the Python programming language, or skills in programming with 
> MSAA and other accessibility APIs.
> 
> There have been many changes since revision 164 including:
> *Much improved responsiveness for sapi5 synths.
> *Much improved support for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
> *The addition of easy-to use dialogs, to configure many settings such as 
> voice, pitch, rate, key echo, mouse navigation, object presentation and 
> more.
>  *A built-in quick-start guide right in the NVDA user interface.
> *Massive improvements to the NVDA user interface as far as focus issues
> are 
> concerned.
> *Password protection by saying stars when typing in to protected edit 
> fields.
> *All objects are reviewable so you are able to check the spelling of
> things 
> as you navigate around.
> *NVDA can report the groupbox that the object with focus is in (example: 
> advanced page in system dialog, control pannel).
> *Beeps are now used to notify the user of changes on progress bars (such
> as 
> when loading a page in Internet Explorer or Firefox, copying a large file
> in 
> Windows Explorer, or checking for new email in Outlook Express etc).
> *New wave sounds are now used to denote startup, errors, crashes and
> exit, 
> in NVDA. Previously the PC speaker was used.
> *insert+s used to turn speech on and off, but now it toggles between 3 
> speech modes: talk, beeps and off.
> 
> Talk is just normal speech, off is off, but beeps, is an idea that came
> from 
> the Dos screen reader, ASAP. This mode plays a 5ms 10000HZ tone (very
> high 
> and very short) each time an item of speech is supposed to happen. It is 
> very responsive, and it allows you to deal with the situation when you
> are 
> doing something that is constantly changing the screen, as in millions of 
> files are scrolling up a dos console, or perhaps you are running a setup 
> program that is constantly telling you what file it is copying etc. If
> you 
> switch to the beeps speech mode, you only have to wait until the flood of 
> beeps stop and you know the task is finished. This is much faster than 
> having to keep pressing control, or waiting for all the speech to finish.
> 
> *Reading of new text on Dos consoles has been much improved. Also NVDA no 
> longer crashes when pressing control+c or exiting a dos console.
> 
> *Improved the reading of objects under the mouse more so that hopefully
> NVDA 
> will not freeze if using the mouse to close a window.
> 
> *Improved responsiveness and memory management in some parts of NVDA.
> Most 
> noticeably NVDA no longer will sometimes freeze up for a second or two
> when 
> closing some applications.
> 
> *When leaving the menu bar or context menu of an application, NVDA now
> moves 
> back to the correct place of focus and reports it.
> 
> *Removed the sapi4 driver because it was causing trouble on a lot of 
> systems, plus it has to be rewritten to solve some problems to do with 
> threading. Now NVDA only supports sapi5.
> 
> *Removed the Viavoice driver due to licencing issues.
> 
> *Added a say 'cap' before capitals option to NVDA. When on (check the 
> checkbox in voice settings) the word 'cap' will be prepended to any
> single 
> capital letter spoken. This means either when typing a capital letter
> with 
> sayTypedCharacters on, or when arrowing on to a capital letter. This was 
> added because some synthesizers may not support pitch and therefore have
> no 
> way of denoting capital letters.
> 
> *Caps lock and Num lock now speak when being turned on and off.
> 
> *NVDA no longer hides its user interface on startup by default. If you
> want 
> it to hide by default, check the "Hide user interface on startup"
> checkbox 
> in the User Interface settings dialog on the preferences menu.
> 
> *Added an option to automatically save the current configuration on exit. 
> (Found in the User Interface settings dialog)
> 
> *The NVDA interface now contains a navigatable text control in the main
> part 
> of its window, which contains a quick-start document explaining how the
> User 
> interface works, and also documents many useful NVDA key strokes.
> 
> *Added a script to report the title of the active window (insert+t). Like 
> speak title in many other screen readers.
> 
> *The navigator where am I script (insert+numpadAdd) now starts from the 
> object that is a parent to the current navigator object, rather than 
> starting from the actual current navigator object. This is to make it 
> quicker to find out where you are since you can already report the
> current 
> navigator object with insert+numpad5. The script now also says the word
> 'in' 
> before each object to separate the objects more clearly.
> 
> *Added a script to report the dimentions and location (in pixles)of the 
> current navigator object (shift+insert+numpad5)
> 
> 
> 
> Mick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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