Great work! Thank you! Lissy Verghese On 8/10/15, Dinesh Kaushal <dineshkaus...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > Apologies for somewhat late information. As you all know that NVDA 2015.2 > was out a couple of months back. > > > > This email is update about the contributions made by NVDA India team. As you > would remember that on this list we had conducted a survey about the > features that all of us want to see in future releases of NVDA. I know some > of us might already know about the features that have been added by India > team, but still find below a complete update. > > > > Following is from what’s new of 2015.2 > > > > In new features, first 5 such as next and previous sentence navigation in > Microsoft word, Indian Braille tables, cell overlap information in excel, > reading excel charts, and listing of charts, comments, and formulas in excel > are fixes from Indian team. > > In bug fixes, 2 issues i.e. Character descriptions are now handled correctly > for conjunct characters in certain Indian languages and When selecting > colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now reported are > from Indian team. > > > > Thanks for your support. We are trying to fix as many issues as possible, > but we are limited by the resources to support our development efforts so we > could not fix many of the issues that we wanted. > > > > This information does not include the work that we are doing in eSpeak. > > > > Full what’s new follows: > > > > 2015.2 > > > > Highlights of this release include the ability to read charts in Microsoft > Excel and support for reading and interactive navigation of mathematical > content. > > > > New Features > > •Moving forward and backward by sentence in Microsoft Word is now possible > with alt+downArrow and alt+upArrow respectively. (#3288) > > •New braille translation tables for several Indian languages. (#4778) > > •In Microsoft Excel, NVDA now reports when a cell has overflowing or cropped > content. (#3040) > > •In Microsoft Excel, you can now use the Elements List (NVDA+f7) to allow > listing of charts, comments and formulas. (#1987) > > •Support for reading charts in Microsoft Excel. To use this, select the > chart using the Elements List (NVDA+f7) and then use the arrow keys to move > between the data points. (#1987) > > •Using MathPlayer 4 from Design Science, NVDA can now read and interactively > navigate mathematical content in web browsers and in Microsoft Word and > PowerPoint. See the "Reading Mathematical Content" section in the User Guide > for details. (#4673) > > •It is now possible to assign input gestures (keyboard commands, touch > gestures, etc.) for all NVDA preferences dialogs and document formatting > options using the Input Gestures dialog. (#4898) > > > > Changes > > •In NVDA's Document Formatting dialog, the keyboard shortcuts for Report > lists, Report links, Report line numbers and Report font name have been > changed. (#4650) > > •In NVDA's Mouse Settings dialog, keyboard shortcuts have been added for > play audio coordinates when mouse moves and brightness controls audio > coordinates volume. (#4916) > > •Significantly improved reporting of color names. (#4984) > > •Updated liblouis braille translator to 2.6.2. (#4777) > > > > Bug Fixes > > •Character descriptions are now handled correctly for conjunct characters in > certain Indian languages. (#4582) > > •If the "Trust voice's language when processing characters and symbols" > option is enabled, the Punctuation/Symbol pronunciation dialog now correctly > uses the voice language. Also, the language for which pronunciation is being > edited is shown in the dialog's title. (#4930) > > •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, typed characters are no > longer inappropriately announced in editable combo boxes such as the Google > search field on the Google home page. (#4976) > > •When selecting colors in Microsoft Office applications, color names are now > reported. (#3045) > > •Danish braille output now works again. (#4986) > > •PageUp/pageDown can again be used to change slides within a PowerPoint > slide show. (#4850) > > •In Skype for Desktop 7.2 and later, typing notifications are now reported > and problems immediately after moving focus out of a conversation have been > fixed. (#4972) > > •Fixed problems when typing certain punctuation/symbols such as brackets > into the filter field in the Input Gestures dialog. (#5060) > > •In Internet Explorer and other MSHTML controls, pressing g or shift+g to > navigate to graphics now includes elements marked as images for > accessibility purposes (i.e. ARIA role img). (#5062) > > > > Changes for Developers > > •brailleInput.handler.sendChars(mychar) will no longer filter out a > character if it is equal to the previous character by ensuring that the key > sent is correctly released. (#4139) > > •Scripts for changing touch modes will now honor new labeles added to > touchHandler.touchModeLabels. (#4699) > > •Add-ons can provide their own math presentation implementations. See the > mathPres package for details. (#4509) > > •Speech commands have been implemented to insert a break between words and > to change the pitch, volume and rate. See BreakCommand, PitchCommand, > VolumeCommand and RateCommand in the speech module. (#4674) ◦There is also > speech.PhonemeCommand to insert specific pronunciation, but the current > implementations only support a very limited number of phonemes. > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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