Hello everyone, A version of this announcement will be sent to NVDA users soon. The following announcement stems from a discussion regarding now deprecated Image Describer add-on on NVDA add-ons maili

Hi all, While editing the latest edition of NVDA Add-on Dev Guide and in the midst of planning a pull request strategy, I thought about something that was nagging at the back of my mind and I’m sure m

Hello everyone, On behalf of add-on guide writers, I’m delighted to announce the publication of 2020.2 edition of NVDA Add-on Development Guide. Key changes include Python 3 syntax, script decorator,

Hello all, NVDA Add-on Development Guide 2020.2 edition is in progress, hopefully to be published next week. As we are beyond Python 3 transition, the guide will see some important changes as a result

Hi, Perhaps. What can help with that effort is source code comments and separating patches into separate modules so that when it comes time to send pull requests to NVDA, just the needed parts can be

Hello all, especially to Braille Extender fans, People watching Braille Extender GitHub repo (https://github.com/andre9642/brailleextender) may have noticed various issues about code maintenance and s

Hi, Re-initializing UIA handler thread is a performance nightmare - causes NVDA to freeze until the thread comes to life. There are two possible routes I've investigated, both involving event handlers

Hi, Not easy, but it can be done at the event handler level (that's the route I'm taking with modern input features at the moment). Cheers, Joseph

Hello everyone, Folks on NVDA add-ons list may have seen the below message, but just to reiterate: For people using Windows 10 App Essentials: you'll notice that if you do enable the option described

Hi, You can toggle full screen mode by pressing Control+Alt+Break (turn off full screen mode to toggle out of Sandbox window). To really exit Widnows Sandbox, you need to exit out of full screen and c

Hi, Once Windows Sandbox opens, you need to copy NVDA installer to Sandbox guest's desktop and run it. Unless you let Windows Sandbox use full screen (Control+Alt+Break), you won't be able to use majo

Hello NVDA developers and add-ons community, I’m delighted to announce that two major features from Enhanced Touch Gestures add-on are being considered for inclusion in a future NVDA release (or rathe

Hi all, Add-on Updater 20.06.2 is on its way, to be released either today or tomorrow (likely later today). This release includes two major changes: Add-on Updater 20.06.2 is the last version to suppo

#addonrelease

Hi, It might be possible using foreground and gain/lose focus events, but be aware that you need to think about possibilities such as a website having the same name and/or content as your app but host

Hi, At the moment there is no way of creating domain specific add-ons. I think a better approach might be looking into making your app usable with browsers other than (or in addition to) Internet Expl

Hello all, I was notified that several NVDA users (on users list) cannot use Image Describer add-on originally developed by Oliver Edholm. The add-ons community was notified, and an add-ons reviewer s

Hi, Because wxPython includes C extension code (pyd file), you'll need to run Python 3.7 specific and 32-bit wxPython 4.0.3. Cheers, Joseph

Hi, His name is Oliver and email address is oliver.edholm@.... Also, if you want to introduce yourself to add-ons community, the NVDA Add-ons list can be found at: https://nvda-addons.groups.io/

Hi, I see. In this case, would you like to talk to the author of this add-on (unless you already talked to the author) to get some advice and early feedback? If yes, I’ll forward this conversation to

Hi, Image Describer used to be a useful NVDA add-on for this purpose until things changed. Cheers, Joseph