VLC multimedia player: Accessibility enhancements - History
Author: paulber19 (paulber19@laposte.net) with the very active participation of Daniel Poiraud.
URL: https://github.com/paulber19/VLCAccessEnhancementNVDAAddon.git
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1. Version 2.12 (October/11/2024)
Compatibility with NVDA 2024.2, 2024.3 and 2024.4.
Bug fixes:
- in edit boxes, "space" characters and uppercase characters are now correctly announced.
- correction of a bad French translation.
2. Version 2.11 (March/27/2024)
Compatibility:
- Compatibility with NVDA 2024.1.
- NVDA versions prior to 2023.1 are no longer supported.
What's new:
- according to the addon store since NVDA 2023.2, it is now possible to update the extension with an incompatible version.
- taking into account the "Speech on demand" mode introduced in nvda 2024.1: all scripts announcing information will vocalize this information. In this mode, all other scripts will remain silent.
Bug fixes:
- improved initialization of the extension when playback of a video file is started from Windows Explorer and the cursor remains on the Explorer. But doesn't work in all cases.
3. Version 2.10 (February/18/2023)
Compatibility with NVDA 2023.1
Bug fixes:
- correction of not returning to the configuration profile of the previous application when stopping VLC or switching with "alt+tab".
- correction of the impossibility of using VLC with a language not provided for in the extension.
4. Version 2.9 (May/30/2022)
- the list of recent files with their elapsed times is now correctly found.
- announcement of the volume during an increase or decrease request, when no media is in progress.
- voice messages are now also sent to the braille display.
- fixed inability to view extension history with "View History" button.
5. Version 2.8 (February/04/2022)
- compatibility with NVDA 2022.1
- reset the configuration in the event of errors in the configuration file.
Changes:
- during an automatic update of the add-on, it no longer asks the user if he wants to keep the current configuration parameters of the add-on.
- during a manual installation of the add-on, a confirmation request is requested when the user has chosen not to keep the current settings of the add-on configuration.
6. Version 2.7 (December/01/2021)
compatibility with NVDA 2021.3
7. Version 2.6 (June/22/2021)
- Compatibility with NVDA 2021.1 Versions of NVDA prior to 2019.3 are no longer supported.
- code removal for Python 2
8. Version 2.5.2 (January/09/2021)
- added Turkish translation
9. Version 2.5.1 (january/09/2021)
Added russian translation
- added Turkish translation
10. Version 2.5 (12/19/2020)
- Compatibility with NVDA 2020.4.
- added download links in the add-on's history.
- addition of the "View history" button in the "Update" category of the add-on's parameters.
11. Version 2.4 (10/27/2020)
- Compatibility with NVDA 2020.3.
- code recovery to avoid "garbage collector" errors.
- addition of the "What's new" button in the dialog which offers a new version to download.
12. Version 2.3 (07/28/2020)
Compatibility with NVDA 2020.2
13. Version 2.2.1 (06/15/2020)
Fixed issue with NVDA stopping during fast forward by repeated small jumps.
14. Version 2.2 (05/18/2020)
- correction of the regression to resume media playback.
- pausing the media during a forward jump in the last 3 seconds to avoid stopping the media by VLC.
15. Version 2.1.1 (04/03/2020)
updating of history of add-on's changes.
16. Version 2.1 (04/03/2020)
- compatibility with NVDA 2020.1,
- compliance for NVDA extension compatibility test
17. Version 2.0.2 (02/14/2020)
Fixed extension download link.
18. Version 2.0.1 (02/09/2020)
- correction of the non-presentation of the message asking the user to stop VLC.
- deletion of trace instructions.
19. Version 2.0 (02/07/2020)
- Compatibility with NVDA 2019.3
- added automatic update of the extension
- setting option to automatically announce changes in the level of volume and the elapsed time.
- announcement of the hiding of the menu bar.
- management of the shortcut for activating the menu "Interface minimum".
- management of the shortcut for activating the menu "Effects and filters".
- improvement of the announcement of the name and the level of the knobs.
- access by virtual panel, to the various control elements of the media playback (source code base of Javi Dominguez).
- taking into account the absence of the total time of certain media during the announcement of the time elapsed, total and remaining.
- deletion of the html text included in the description of some of the controls (source code base of Javi Dominguez).
- improvement of accessibility in the reading list .
- improvement of the accessibility of the fields for editing (source code base of Javi Dominguez).
- in the dialog "meta-data":
- announcement of the titles of the edit boxes.
- correction of the blockage in the movement by tab key (source code base of Javi Dominguez).
- rearrangement of the menu of parameter setting of the extension.
20. Version 1.3.1 (06/11/2019)
- fixed the file buildVars.py
- added Spanish translation
21. Version 1.3 (06/01/2019)
Compatibility with NVDA 2019.2.0 (updating the manifest.ini).
22. Version 1.2 (03/06/2019)
- replacement of buttons "yes" and "no" by the buttons "ok" and "cancel" in the boxes for confirmation to be able to use the key "Échapp".
- replacement of the term "add-on" by extension "(imposed by the translators of NVDA).
- compatibility with NVDA 2019.1.0.
- preparation of the compatibility with python3.
23. Version 1.1 (12/21/2018)
- correction of non-recovery of the playback when the media list recent has only one media,
- corrections to the documentation,
- compatibility with alpha versions 2019.1 of NVDA.
24. Version 1.0 (10/29/2018)
To avoid confusion with other extensions, for VLC, the name of the extension is to be renamed "VLCAccessEnhancement" and in the extensions manager, it is called "VLC media Player: add-ins of accessibility".
What's new:
- compatibility with NVDA 2018.3,
- change extension name to avoid confusion with other extensions for VLC.
- announcement of the indication of the possibility of the resumption of the playback interrupted position stored by VLC and resuming playback using the gesture command "Alt + Control + r",
- added button to delete the configuration file of VLC,
Internal change:
- complete overhaul of the code,
- file style.css renamed style_md.css,
- conversion of the file user manual for compliance of the form with the extensions international,
- renaming of the menu configuration of the extension.
25. Previous history
25.1. Version 3.0 (19/06/2018)
This version is compatible with VLC 3.0, which is incompatible with the old versions.
New:
- vocalization of the indicator of repetition of the media,
- correct reading of the status bar,
- announcement of the state play or pause with the sound muted when the focus of the main window.
Changes:
- the configuration file of VLC is no longer changed automatically to set the keyboard shortcuts. Their implementation is done manually by the user using a simple button,
- the dialog box "Go to time" of VLC is no longer vocalized.
- the volume level is now announced at each change.
25.2. Version 2.3.1
correction of bugs (regression of "NVDA + Control + h")
25.3. Version 2.3
- added scripts for the revival of reading
- addition of the management of a configuration file for the extension
25.4. Version 2.2
- configuration of the file vlcrc to change the keys of speed variations,
- announcement of the time read during breaks, reading,
- announcement of the cut-off /delivery of the sound,
- announcement of the passage in pause,
- vocalization of the dialog box of VLC "Go-time",
- change the dialog of the extension of the "Go to time".
25.5. Changes to version 2.0
First multilingual version.