NVDA 2025.3 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing.

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

• Updates to translations
• Bug fix for SAPI 5 where NVDA did not announce certain gestures

See the release announcement for full changes and download: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3beta3/

For sending a message, as others have noted, control+enter is the keystroke you want. Alt+s should also work.

Navigation in Outlook seems… a little flakey - if you press TAB, it inserts a tab stop into your email. If you press SHIFT+TAB immediately after pressing TAB it removes that tab stop.

If you press SHIFT+TAB at the top of the body of a message, it usually moves back to the subject then to fields. If you press shift+tab at other points in the body of the message, it sometimes moves to the subject and sometimes does nothing. Moving back to the top of the message then pressing shift+tab does seem to work more reliably.

F6 and SHIFT+F6 do move between parts of the window… just not the parts you might expect (Message body, ribbon, somewhere else in the ribbon, navigation bar, message list, then back to the body.

Control+tab seems to move from the message body to the navigation bar to the message list then back to the message body.

If you have the message open in a new window, rather than the reading pane, then control+tab doesn’t seem to do anything, and F6 only moves between the body of the message and the ribbon.

With NVDA not running, most of that still works the same, although shift+tab does seem to move reliably move from the body of the message to the subject regardless of where in the body you are. Not sure if that’s an NVDA bug, but happy for someone to write up an issue on that, or anything else :)

Hi everyone, NVDA 2025.3 Beta 2 is now available! https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3beta2/ Updates include:

Bug fix for responsiveness issues with SAPI 5. We think we have fixed most of the SAPI 5 bugs now - PLEASE test this version if you use SAPI 5 and let us know. Bug fix for Turkish Braille tables

Updates to translations

Hey everyone, just bumping this to encourage anyone who hasn’t filled in the survey to please consider doing so - we are still receiving feedback: https://nvaccess.org/survey

If you’re keen to try the beta, but aren’t sure how, download & run it just like any other copy of NVDA!

You can install it, but we recommend most users create a portable copy. Tips here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-9th-february-2024/#portable

Particularly test any highlighted features or those mentioned in the change log.

GitHub is the best place to report issues - steps here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-17-july-2025/#issues

Or ask here or via email!

What other tips would experienced users give new testers?

And now NVDA 2025.2 Beta 2 is now available for testing! Changes in beta 2 include:

• Braille updates correctly when typing in Excel.
• Fixed a bug with the NLS eReader Zoomax driver.
• Fixed errors in object navigation with braille in XAML static text controls.
• Fixed root certificate issues in the Add-on Store.
• Updates to translations.

For full details and to download, please visit: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2beta2/

I must admit, I am not sure - whether that was a deliberate change, or perhaps if we even knew you could do that originally :) It could be something which is worth an issue if you are interested: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues

I have seen NVDA as an acronym for NonViolent Direct Action, though only ever in lists of acronyms :) I’m not sure how widely (or in what context) it is used in the wild like that?

NVDA in our context stands for Non Visual Desktop Access. The free screen reader which has been around since 2006: https://www.nvaccess.org/

Another update for 2025.1 - The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2025.1.2 is now available for download and testing. This release includes a fix for a crash in certain Microsoft Word versions before version 16.0.18226 on opening.

Full info and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1-2rc1/

Hi everyone, two small bits of news from us today:

1. Hot on the heels of yesterday’s 2025.1 release, there’s a minor point release - NVDA 2025.1.1 to fix an issue which affected some users (updates for both those on stable, and those on RC / Beta branches): https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1-1/

2. We’ve re-enabled taking NVDA Certified Expert exams (we froze them while we were having those site issues): https://certification.nvaccess.org/

Do let us know. I’m not familiar with Unspoken. If it’s an NVDA add-on, it might need an update. If it’s an external program, it should keep working fine.

Thanks everyone for your ongoing patience. We are pleased to confirm checking for NVDA updates now works again.

Thanks to not needing a license check, there was never any other impact to NVDA & its functionality.

Expert certification & snapshot builds are still paused & shop purchases are still being processed manually.

We’re making progress, and once again we do thank everyone for your support and patience! If you do need anything, please do reach out to info@nvaccess.org.

NVDA 2024.4 Beta 4 is now available for download & testing.

Changes introduced in Beta 4:

• Fixed the visual layout of NVDA’s Braille Settings page.
• Fixed an issue causing text not related to shortcut keys to appear in the Commands Quick Reference.
• Updates to translations.

Full information and dowload at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4beta4/

NVDA 2024.4 Beta 3 is now available!

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

Updated LibLouis Braille translator to 3.31.0.

• Fixed translation of numbers in Spanish Braille.

• New Braille tables:

• Thai grade 1

• Greek international Braille (single-cell accented letters)

• Renamed tables:

• “Thai 6 dot” was renamed to “Thai grade 0” for consistency reasons.

• The existing “Greek international braille” table was renamed to “Greek international braille (2-cell accented letters)” to clarify the distinction between the two Greek systems.

Updates to translations.

Read more and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4beta3/

Continuing my trend of being a bit late posting - NVDA 2024.4 Beta 2 is now available: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4beta2/

Changes introduced in Beta 2:

• The stability of NVDA’s Poedit support has been improved with the side effect that the minimum required version of Poedit is now version 3.5.
• NVDA no longer freezes while checking for add-on updates.
• Updates to translations.

Note that “NVDA is no longer as sluggish when arrowing up and down through large files in VS Code.” is listed on the release announcement as a new update - this was included in Beta 1 and inadvertently carried over to the Beta 2 announcement.

Thanks so much for pinning this - and for all the responses we’ve got! We are closing the survey today, so can remove the pinned post now.

Of course, we are always happy for feedback, so if anyone does have additional feedback they would like to give, please don’t hesitate to write to info@nvaccess.org

Kind regards

Quentin

I have also not encountered the credentials going stale issue. It might be worth clearing your browser cache (remember when we had to do that to fix ANYTHING? I have barely needed to do that in the last year or so, but it comes up occasionally).

Re navigating, the list of posts works ok - you can press H to jump from one post to the next. When you actually go into a post, the UI breaks down a bit. Mostly because (for me at least), n doesn’t seem to work to jump to the next non-linked text where it should (as in the body of motobojo’s post, or any replies). The “Skip to content” button also doesn’t seem to work - it comes up as the first item on the page, but you can’t activate it?

We’re going to be there all week. We are presenting in “Orange County 1-2” at 2:20pm on Thursday 21st March.

Uh, thanks?

We try to prioritise features and fixes that will have the most positive impact on the largest number of users. Not all features are used by every user, but there’s usually SOMETHING for everyone in each release.

I’m glad it sounds like we got some things in there for you this time around anyway!

Is it this one: “Added an experimental option to leverage the UIA notification support in Windows Terminal to report new or changed text in the terminal, resulting in improved stability and responsivity. (#13781) Consult the user guide for limitations of this experimental option.”

We don’t normally link directly to updated files in the what’s new, it’s really just to let you know what is new so you can try it out when you download the update. The easiest way is to open the user guide from the help menu - in this way, if you are using NVDA in a language other than English, you will also get the updated translation (if it is there yet).

To get to the file without downloading the beta, it’s a little roundabout, but you can go to the linked issue, and from there to the PR (“seanbudd closed this as completed in #14047 on Oct 25, 2022”: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/14047 From there, go to files, and you will find the user guide as one of them, and you can view the file, which links me here: https://github.com/leonardder/nvda/blob/f6f6563b6872ec82b095ef9a930606b8d10e7f27/user_docs/en/userGuide.t2t

The raw file doesn’t have neat little links but if you search for “Windows terminal”, there aren’t too many other references.