Posted: 2009-05-18 01:02 Author: jteh Categories: GeneralNews Several months ago, we started work to allow NVDA to read secure Windows screens such as the Windows logon screen, User Account Control (UAC) screens, the Windows lock screen and the control+alt+delete screen. This work stalled for several months, but due to increasing requests from users (as well as our own frustration), I finally revitalised the effort a couple of weeks ago. I am happy to announce that this work has now been merged into the main NVDA development branch , which means that it is now available for testing by users in daily snapshots . There are doubtless some issues still to be fixed, but this should now be quite useable. This code also added an option to the General Settings dialog which allows you to configure the system to automatically start NVDA after logging on to Windows. In addition, there is an option to configure whether NVDA will be used on the Windows logon screen. Disabling this will still allow other Windows secure screens to be read while NVDA is running.
Some additional info for those that care: The standard way to configure assistive technology products to access secure Windows screens on Windows Vista and later is to use the Ease of Access framework. However, using a service (which is the approach used for Windows XP) appears to work quite well on Windows Vista and later as well. Therefore, rather than implementing support for Ease of Access in NVDA , we just use the service for all supported versions of Windows for now. (The documentation for Ease of Access is also incorrect in some areas, which stops us from implementing useable support right now.) We may consider implementing support for Ease of Access later if we discover a significant reason to do this. regards, Ruchir -- As long as forever, I will stay by your side, I'll be your companion, Your friend and your guide!!! www.ruchir89.wordpress.com 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
