Microsoft Word text editor: accessibility enhancement - History
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1. v3.6 (October/11/2024)
compatibility with NVDA 2024.2, 2024.3 and 2024.4.
What's new:
- improvement regarding comments:
- added a "windows + alt +o" script to announce or display comments replies under the cursor.
- added a "windows + alt +y" script to reply to the comment under the cursor.
- possibility of indicating the name of the author when inserting a comment.
- in the element insertion dialog, added the "Reply to comment" element to reply to the comment under the cursor.
- in the dialogue listing the comments:
- added a button to read the replies to the comment.
- added a button to reply to the comment.
- added a button to modify the author's name.
- moving from sentence to sentence now works correctly when UIA is used.
- the scripts for moving from paragraph to paragraph with the possibility of skipping empty paragraphs are brought into compliance with those of NVDA.
- The script for reading the text of the element under the cursor (footnote or endnote) now allows, on the second press of the command gesture, to modify this text.
- automatic reading of footnotes or endnotes is now operational when the "Use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word Document Controls" option is either "When appropriate" or "Always".
- added a script (without input gesture) to set the option "Use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word Document Controls" without needing to access the "Advanced" category of NVDA settings.
Bug fixes:
- correction in the documentation of the horizontal and vertical movement keys in "table command layer" mode activated.
- deleting an endnote or footnote no longer causes an error when automatic reading of notes is activated.
- the text associated with the comment is now correctly displayed when there is only one comment listed.
Changes:
- scripts concerning movements from sentence to sentence or from paragraph to paragraph no longer appear in the add-on 's input gestures category because they are triggered by non-modifiable Word commands.
- the "Escape" key no longer allows you to deactivate the "table command layer" mode.
2. v3.5 (March/28/2024)
What's new:
- Compatibility with NVDA 2024.1 and dropping support for NVDA versions prior to 2023.1.
- 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.
Development :
- removal of code specific to versions prior to NVDA 2023.1.
3. v3.4 (February/15/2023)
Compatibility with NVDA 2023.1
4. v3.3 (May/24/2022)
Features:
- addition in the document information, of:
- the indication "contains hidden text" in the statistics,
- the indication of the state of the "show hidden text" option of Word.
Bug fixes:
- no translation of certain types of elements in the dialog opened with "nvda+f7".
- error when moving from bookmark to bookmark.
- error getting document information when page borders are not uniform.
- the options of the "Document formatting" category are no longer modified when a search for comments is made using the "Search for elements" dialog (windows+alt+f5).
Changes:
- removal of the message which asked, for a good functioning of the extension, to uncheck the option "Use UI Automation to access the Controls of Microsoft Word documents when available".
5. v3.2 (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 extension, it no longer asks the user if he wants to keep the current configuration parameters of the extension.
6. v3.1 (December/19/2021)
Compatibility with NVDA 2021.3. Versions of NVDA prior to 2020.4 are no longer supported.
7. v3.0 (June/23/2021)
Compatibility with NVDA 2021.1. Versions of NVDA prior to 2019.3 are no longer supported.
New features:
- Extension of the script for inserting a comment to insert a footnote or endnote.
- concerning the dialog which displays the list of elements found:
- added "Edit" button for comments, footnotes and endnotes.
- added "delete all" button for footnotes and endnotes.
- addition of automatic reading of inserted, deleted or modified texts.
Bug fixes:
- correction of the error reported when displaying document information.
- correction of the NVDA bug of the "nvda + f7" script not working in edit mode: it is no longer necessary to activate at least once before, the navigation mode
Other changes:
- reorganization of the extension parameters.
- restructuring of the user manual
- removed code specific to Python 2.7.
8. v2.3 (31/12/2020)
- compatibility with NVDA 2020.4
- added automatic reading of endnotes.
- addition of the type of element selected in the title of the "Elements's list" dialog opened by "nvda + f7".
- programmable limitation of the element search time in the "Elements's list" dialog.
- optional loop navigation in navigation mode.
9. v2.2.1 (09/12/2020)
updated Turkish translation.
10. v2.2 (06/12/2020)
- compatibility with NVDA 2020.3
- fixed the conflict of the quick navigation key for bookmarks (, "):" - "by default and" ¡"for Spanish keyboard.
- addition of the "What's new" button in the dialog proposing the installation of a new update.
- addition of the "View history" button in the "Update" category of the add-on's parameters.
- code cleaning (corrections of errors detected by Flake8)
11. v2.1 (28/07/2020)
Compatibility with NVDA 2020.2
12. v2.0 (16/04/2020)
- compatibility with NVDA 2020.1.
- add scripts to move to the first or last cell in the table.
- add of the announcement of the arrival of the first or last cell in the table.
- selection of the cell after a displacement by command in a table(to have the same behavior as standard when moving by tabulation).
- the number of line or column is announced in accordance with option "Cell coordinates" of the category "Document Formatting" of NVDA.
- adaptation of scripts for the spell checker of Word 2019.
- automatic reading of comments and footnotes (NVDA 2019.3 and above).
- correction of a too long response time at the end of the document and when moving by paragraph.
- compliance with NVDA for the compatibility test of extensions with NVDA.
- browseMode quick navigation keys configurable according to the language of NVDA.
Changes for the user: the navigation mode command keys and some command gestures have been modified to be compatible with a Qwerty keyboard.
13. v1.0.1 (07/03/2020)
- correction of the documentation.
- translation of the addon in Spanish by Gunther Melendez, changes by Rémy Ruiz.
14. v1.0 (07/02/2020)
This add-on changes name to avoid confusion with other add-ons. His version starts with 1.0.
- compatibility with NVDA 2019.3.
- input gesture modifications:
- replacement of the key NVDA by pressing the "windows" in the combinations with the "alt" key.
- suppression of the input gestures of scripts for moving with announcement of all cells.
- added script to enable or disable the announcement of the cells in that row or column during a displacement into a table.
- add table layer mode bringing the possibility to use the arrow keys to move around the tables.
- add the script to announce the current cell.
- add the script "document Information",
- improvement of the accessibility of the spelling corrector of Word 2013 and 2016.
- deletion of the announcement of the header level changes.
- preparation of the compatibility to python 3.
15. v3.1 (April 10, 2016)
- adding the announcement of the column for the keyboard command "key_line_page"
16. v3.0 (10 March 2016)
- removal scripts of a fast-moving (duplicate with the mode of navigation of NVDA),
- removal scripts to announce in the second support the title of the rows or columns (use now the option included in NVDA),
- compatibility with NVDA 2016.1.
17. v2.5 (22 June 2015) (not released)
- change the keyboard command: "nvda+control+f6" "alt+backspace" and nvda + numpad delete".
- indication of the position relative to the left and upper edge (command "alt + backspace"", "alt + numpad delete")
- adding the search objects in the current page (command nvda+alt+f5)
- compatibility mode with the navigation of NVDA (change navigation shortcuts)
18. v2.4 (11 June 2015)
- correction block appeared since NVDA 2015.1
- add the script to select the mode quick navigation
19. v2.3 (14 December 2014)
- add command to move the focus to the previous or next sentence ("alt+ up or down Arrow")
- correction of documentation and translation
- fixed manifest.ini
20. v2.2 (1, November 15, 2014)
- added quick navigation
- separation into two categories of objects graph (those in the text layer, the drawing layer)
- add the script "nvda+alt+r" to read the text-editing cursor,
- add the script "nvda+alt+e" to read the note at the end or bottom of the page to the cursor
21. v2.1 (1 October 2014)
- added button "Find and view",
- adding shortcuts to the buttons of the dialog boxes,
- Correction of the documentation
- change the background color of the list items.
- fixed default selection on pressing button "Search and copy to clipboard"
22. v2.0 (24 September 2014)
- compatibility with version 2014.3
- added scripts for tables
- added script for enabling or disabling the skip empty paragraphs
23. v1.0 (24 January 2014)