Helpful links from today’s program on NvDA. Download the current stable version of NVDA at https://www.nvaccess.org/download/ We mentioned it a little bit, but we are currently in the Beta period for NVDA 2025.1. Some of the key updates in NVDA 2025.1 - NVDA Remote built in - Speech responsiveness and other features for, SAPI4, SAPI5, and OneCore - Improvements to add-on store auto updates - New commands to manually refresh ocr - Native selection in Chromium and Edge (Press NVDA+shift+F10 then copy as normal to copy text with formatting) - Default input & output braille tables based on language - Added a general setting to prevent the display turning off during say all or reading with braille. This option is enabled by default, but may result in increased battery depletion. - Braille works with say all config profiles Add-ons: Braille Extender, developed by André-Abush Clause and contributors https://github.com/aaclause/BrailleExtender Many features including Switching between displays or tables with shortcuts, and additional commands and support for a range of features. PC Keyboard Braille Input NVDA Spanish team (Available from the NVDA Add-on store) Type Braille using six keyboard keys as on a perkins Still on Braille, we published a lot of recent and upcoming features in a special edition of our In-Process blog back in October: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-23rd-october-2024/#datavalidation And you can subscribe to that blog, and to all our announcements, updates, releases etc, via email at: https://eepurl.com/iuVyjo Our training material is all available from our shop: https://www.nvaccess.org/shop/ We recommend starting with Basic Training for NVDA, which you can get as: - Electronic text (Word, Text, ePub and HTML formats) for $35: https://www.nvaccess.org/product/basic-training-for-nvda-ebook/ Human-read MP3 audio for $52: https://www.nvaccess.org/product/basic-training-for-nvda-downloadable-audio/ UEB Braille for $71: https://www.nvaccess.org/product/basic-training-for-nvda-braille-hard-copy/ Community links: NVDA user group: https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda Add-ons group: https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/ NVDA Developer Guide: https://download.nvaccess.org/documentation/developerGuide.html Contact us: Web: https://www.nvaccess.org/ Email: [email protected] Social Media - most of our users are on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@NVAccess

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