Sean RandallI happened to connect my Airpods to my computer today. It never occurred to me before that the screen reader wouldn't honour the play/pause feature. Like, there's literally a say all command within #NVDASR designed to start reading the screen without further interaction, and there's this globally-recognised multimedia shortcut in windows - part of myriad keyboards, headsets (even my wired 3.5mm earbuds send it) - that the screen reader just totally ignores.
Rui BatistaAfter more than 10 years at least least, I did a PR to #nvdasr. It was not accepted for quite good reasons but. So long. I feel like a first time contributor. Amount of processes is annoying but in this day and age it is unavoidable.
@BTyson @darrell73 The universe is exactly as it should be! Let us know if you need any help with add ons, voices ETC and I'm sure anyone would be willing to get you up and running! #NVDASR
If anybody is interesting at a Rust port of the #nvdasr remote relay here it is, in need of user testing: https://github.com/ragb/nvda-remote-server-rs I know nobody needs and asked for it but has I had this code around....
NV AccessNVDA 2026.1 Beta 8 is now avaialble from https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-1beta8/
Changes since Beta 7:
- Fixed the “Speech style” setting in Math settings being empty when using languages other than English.
- Updates to translations.
See the release announcement for the full highlights of NVDA 2026.1
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersion #Update #PreRelease #FOSS #FLOSS #Free #News
Pratik PatelTerminal Access for NVDA updated to 1.4.0. New features: error/warning audio cues with word-boundary regex detection, output activity tones, profile selection dialog, search results dialog, gesture scoping (terminal-only activation), and enhanced bookmarks with line labels.
Settings panel reorganized with Audio Cues section. Gesture conflicts checklist shows only NVDA-conflicting gestures. Terminal detection uses exact process name match.
https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/tag/v1.4.0
Would there be any interest in Having the KittenTTS voices integrated as an NVDA add-on? before I do the work, I want to know whether people are actually interested. This sounds like an interesting project. The voices are ML based but they use the CPU for processing.
Turns out @fastfinge has already done an early version of it. I might look at the code but sounds like it's not worth the time.
https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
#accessibility #NVDA #NVDASR
@joslee #NVDAsr was really only used as a last resort on Twitter because all the crypto scammers took over #NVDA. Here is much cleaner, and the thing is if you are a financial person interested in NVIDIA, you really won't find much by searching for #NVDA - you'll find what you want with #NVIDIA which doesn't have any alternate meanings.
What did you think of our article about add-on development and AI in last week's In-Process newsletter? Did we cover the main points? Did we miss anything? If you are visual and into graphics, what did you think of our AI-generated image?
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-10th-march-2026/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Newsletter #Addons #Ecosystem #Development #FOSS #FLOSS #Contributing
