Forgot to add a note for any Jaws users trying out the scrubbing in the
release candidate.
If you are using the Jaws screen reader, and its typing echo setting is set
to characters, which is the default, then if you press and hold down one of
keys for scrubbing, you will hear the name of the key being repeated while
you scrub. To avoid this, you can temporarily set the typing echo to none.
To do this, press Insert + 2 until you hear the word none, and use the same
keystroke to set the typing echo back to characters.
David.
On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 10:55, David Bailes <drbailes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For Windows users, there's both a portable version and an installer for
the release candidate. This is a link to the portable version:
https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-devel.html?dwl=Audacity-2.4.0rc05.zip
And this is a link to the installer:
https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-devel.html?dwl=audacity-win-2.4.0rc05.exe
The new features in this release are given on this page of the manual:
https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/New_features_in_this_release
Of interest to screen reader users include the ability to scrub using the
keyboard, and the removal of the audio position control from the selection
toolbar. The audio position control is now in a separate Time toolbar,
which is placed after the Selection Toolbar. So you just have to tab a bit
more to get to the audio position control.
For those using the current version of the Jaws script, the keystroke to
read the audio position does not work with the release candidate.
It would be good if some of you could give this release candidate some
testing,
David.
