I'm starting to think about the next blog post, but while I do that, what did you think of the last edition? Did I cover all the ways you use to get help from within NVDA? https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-7th-august-2026/#help

Perhaps next edition, we should cover how to get help from others? What would you include there?

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Help #Community #GetHelp #HelpingOthers #Accessibility

Oh My Posh is a set of configurations and themes for powershell, that allows dynamic modification of the prompt depending on what you're doing. This is the theme I use as my daily driver, and how I have powershell set up as a screen reader user.

What are other #NVDAsr users using for a #Mastodon client on #Windows these days? I'd heard development stopped on FastSMRW. I've been using Fedra, but I'm having some issues in my home, local, and federated timelines with focus jumping off posts I'm trying to read, so I'm curious what my other options are.
#blind #ScreenReader #accessibility #NVDA @mastoblind @main

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 11 is now available for testing!

Changes in Beta 11:

• Updates to translations
• Updated some messages related to magnifier -Added a security fix to clear the braille display on system shutdown

Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta11/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Testing #Beta #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS

All services on rblind.com will be down for 6 hours on August 18th, 2026.

• Date: 18-08-2026
• Start Time: 7:00 AM EST
• End Time: 5:00 PM EST
• Expected Downtime: Approximately 6 hours

Services effected are:

• lemmy: rblind.com and www.rblind.com
• IRC: irc.rblind.com

The RBlind discord will remain functioning as normal, and the ourblind.com website will also remain available. Thanks for your understanding, and see you on the other side!

Ok so in the last two weeks I have read 275 pages of #Braille, totalling 19 chapters. I finished reading The Claw of the Conciliator(The Book of the New Sun 2) by Gene Wolf, and started The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun 3). I am sure some of you have seen my rather sparse posts logging my progress through this series, but this is more just patting myself on the back for keeping up reading consistently for almost 3 months now.

@main @mastoblind @bookstodon

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 10 is now available: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta10/

Changes since beta 9:

• Updates to translations
• Fixed touchscreen, touchpad & mouse input for magnifier
• Added gestures for braille automatic scroll commands
• Removed True Center Mode & Border Mode from the magnifier due to design bugs
• Remove non-functional “Custom” option from the math decimal separator setting

Please do keep testing & share feedback on GitHub: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues or via email.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #New #Beta

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic/116850723356494813

Ok I have begun The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun 3) by Gene Wolf in #Braille, and have read the first chapter.
@main @mastoblind @bookstodon

NVDA 2026.2 beta 9 available for testing. Changes introduced in Beta 9:

• Updates to translations
• Update Braille Reading and Automatic Scroll Rate in User Guide
• Fixed moving by sentence in Word (alt+downArrow/alt+upArrow).
• Changed quick access keys for magnifier settings to ensure they are unique

Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta9/

This shows a person using Orca on Plasma Mobile on a Linux phone. However, he is using TAP to explore and not using the right and left flick gestures. So I have asked if it works with those.

If it is limited to tap to explore, then I'm not certain a fully blind user could use it properly, but a person with some amount of sight could use it.

This is the first time I have seen a screen reader working on a Linux phone at all though, so that is a serious improvement.

Edit: According to them, flick gestures do not currently work, but they will see if it can be added.

Hi, I wanted to know if there is a way to prepare documents for signature with digital signing methods like Docusign and Adobe ESign with screenreaders? With Docusign signing is straightforward, if prepared by someone else, but when preparing them myself I haven't figured out how to place signature fields where they are supposed to be on the document for others to sign. For Adobe ESign I can't place my signature where it needs to be. Is this a skills issue or are these services not accessible? For reference I use JAWS but do have NVDA as well.

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 8 is now available for testing. Beta 8 includes:

• Updates to translations
• Improve magnifier behaviour when using higher DPI scaling
• Fix magnifier from interfering with opening dictionary dialogs
• Improve the handling of failing to activate the magnifier
• Block touch screen input when using the magnifier where possible, as it is not supported yet

Read more and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta8/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #NewVersion #Beta #News #Testing

In-Process is out, featuring:

• the loss of a community legend
• the latest NVDA 2026.2 beta updates
• what IS the "Characters per line" setting?
• Introducing "Access Point"
• and the System Accessibility Repair Tool

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-20th-july-2026/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Newsletter #Blog #Update

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 7 is now available for testing. This beta fixes the SAPI 5 issue some users experienced after Beta 6. It also includes:

• Updates to translations
• Fixes NVDA prompting to restart after updating instead of logging off
• and a fix for reading PDF content in Foxit PDF Editor with browse mode

Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta7/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #News #NewVersion

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 6 is now available for testing!

Read more & download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta6/

Changes since Beta 5:

• Updates to translations
• Show the restart dialog after updating from within NVDA
• SAPI5 bug fix: skip over invalid voices
• SAPI4 32 bit bug fix: support more voices
• Improve conflict handling between magnifier and screen curtain
• Restore the ability for add-ons to register custom touch modes in availableTouchModes

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #News #NewVersion

I hope all my fellow #Blind, #DeafBlind, and #VisuallyImpaired people, along with their family, friends, and others have a great time at the #ACB and/or #NFB 2026 conventions. I am taking this time, and the increased activity on certain hashtags to do some shameless promotion of #OurBlind. OurBlind comprises the Discord, Lemmy, and Reddit communities operated by the staff of the r/Blind subreddit, as well as those who have joined since the creation of the Discord in 2022, and Lemmy in 2023. We have members from all over the world, and of all ages, hearing and vision levels, and are a safe space for Our LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse friends. Our general community guidelines, and the links to reach our platforms can be found on our website.

https://ourblind.com/

@main @mastoblind #ACB2026 #NFB2026

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic/116575911177078798

Ok, I have now started The Claw of the Conciliator (THE Book of the New Sun 2) by Gene Wolf in #Braille, and read the first two chapters.
@main @mastoblind @bookstodon

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 5 is now available: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta5/

Changes introduced in Beta 5:

• Updates to translations
• Use math navigation category for one more math script
• Prevent NVDA freeze when brailling math with certain Unicode characters
• Improvements to Magnifier messages and settings names

Read more and download from the release announcement, and please keep filing any issues you find on GitHub: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #Update #News

In-Process is out! It's a bumper edition featuring:

• NVDA 2026.2 Beta 4
• OCR Follow-up: Extracting text from inaccessible PDF files
• From the Community
• NVDA Gives George Flexibility
• 2026.2 Touch Improvements

Check it out here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-26th-june-2026/

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 4 is now available for testing for those who want to try out what the next version of NVDA has before it comes out!

Changes since Beta 3, improvements to:

• Translations
• Speech dictionaries
• Magnifier tracking & logging

Read the full changes and download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta4/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta

Early this year I preordered this new Blackberry like phone keyboard that attaches via MagSafe (or Qi2).

So far - and I’m typing this on it - it’s pretty interesting. I’m used to touch typing, but my muscle memory was never trained for BBM.

Symbols seem to roughly match the iOS keyboard, dead keys work as expected and holding a key pops up the numbered list of accents like on macOS. That’s amazing for me as a multi-lingual low-vision typist.

Ergonomics are kinda weird and I’ll need to get used to it. Using it with the phone in landscape and zoom gives lots of space for text though, I like that.

Just some day 1 impressions, I’d love to answer any questions from BVI folks.

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 3 is now available for testing!

Please find the full change log and download from https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta3/

Changes in Beta 3:

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

• Pressing NVDA+control+w on secure screens now opens Magnifier settings as expected.
• Highlighter and Magnifier now follow the focused cell in Excel
• Improvements to Magnifier settings names and layout

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #Beta #FOSS #ScreenReader

Ok stumbled upon this tonight, can anyone figure out what the fuck it is? Is it an adult daycare? Is it a #Blind training center?
https://www.cumberlandcountynj.gov/mw-enrichment-center
@main @mastoblind

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing!

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2beta1/

This release includes a built-in magnifier with zoom and filtering options (currently only full-screen). Touch support has been significantly expanded, custom speech dictionaries are now available, you can press NVDA+x to repeat the last spoken information, the Braille display can automatically scroll and more!