Dear all, To all those who want to switch to the freen and open source NVDA screen reader, either to promote and embrace free and open source assistive technology or as a result of positive reviews given in a recent thread by many, this is something you definitely need to look into. Joseph Lee, a regular code contributor and Korean translation maintainer for the NVDA project, has created an extensive tutorial series that covers everything you may want to know. Read the forwarded announcement to know more...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 16:23:35 -0700 Subject: [NVDA] NVDA audio tutorial: It is done - the complete set of Welcome to NVDA 2015 tutorials is now available To: n...@freelists.org Dear NVDA users, developers and supporters around the world: It is official: the complete set of English audio tutorials for NVDA, now titled Welcome to NVDA 2015, is now available for download. This edition packs all the features of NVDA 2015.1, including complete coverage of all configuration settings, revised material on popular apps and NVDA and much more. About the tutorial: this nine part tutorial series, recorded by a contributor to NVDA screen reader project, covers everything you ever wanted to know about NVDA. This tutorial set covers everything from installation, basic commands, object navigation and review cursor, mouse and touchscreen features, web browsing, popular applications, complete set of configuration options, tools and add-ons. The first edition of this tutorial, published in 2013, has been updated in this second edition to include coverage of new review modes, integration of touchscreen gestures, configuration profiles and much more. The tutorial files, along with a zip file containing all tutorial chapters, can be found at the following site: http://www.nvda-kr.org/en/ Contents of the tutorial: 1. Introduction: NVDA features, how to install and update NVDA, creating a portable copy and how to start, restart and exit NVDA. 2. Basics: NVDA menu, welcome dialog, basic keyboard and touchscreen commands. 3. All about objects: Object navigation, review cursor, object, document and screen review modes, mouse manipulation and touchscreen support. 4. Browsing the web: focus versus browse mode, first letter navigation, elements list, embedded objects, live regions and advanced commands. 5. Popular applications: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), Miranda IM, Winamp, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Windows Store apps. 6. Configuring NVDA I: Preferences menu overview, general settings, synthesizer and supported synthesizers, voice settings and synth settings ring, braille settings and supported braille displays, keyboard settings, mouse settings and how to save and revert to saved configuration. 7. Configuring NVDA II: Review cursor, input composition settings, object presentation, browse mode, document formatting, speech dictionaries, symbol pronunciation, input gestures and restoring default settings. 8. Configuration profiles and tools: Log viewer, speech viewer, Python console, reloading plug-ins, configuration profiles. 9. All about add-ons: Add-ons manager, Systray List, Extended Winamp, Resource Monitor, Control Usage Assistant, OCR, Easy Table Navigator and final remarks. For those coming from 2013 series, here's what's new and changed: 1. Introduction: Added a segment towards the end on how to restart NVDA with and without add-ons. 2. Basics: Touchscreen commands are demonstrated. 3. All about objects: Review modes introduced, replacing flat review. 4. Browsing the web: Live regions added, a dedicated section on focus versus browse mode has been added. 5. Popular apps: Microsoft Word and Outlook sections were updated to mention browse mode facility. 6. Configuring NVDA: Updated various sections and added a section on input gestures dialog (chapter 7). 7. Config profiles and tools: Added a section on configuration profiles, including how to add and delete profiles and different profile types and triggers. 8. Add-ons: Easy Table Navigator replaces Instant Translate add-on, revised add-ons manager section to cover additions to this dialog. Planned addenda: 1. Math support: A brief overview on reading math content in web browsers. 2. Regular expressions: a more detailed coverage of regular expressions in speech dictionaries. More addenda to be added as time goes by. Thanks, and hope you enjoy the newly updated tutorials. 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