This mode plays a 5ms 10000HZ tone (very high and very short) each time an item of speech is supposed to happen. Talk is just normal speech, off is off, but beeps, is an idea that came from the Dos screen reader, ASAP. *insert+s used to turn speech on and off, but now it toggles between 3 speech modes: talk, beeps and off. *New wave sounds are now used to denote startup, errors, crashes and exit, in NVDA. *Beeps are now used to notify the user of changes on progress bars (such as when loading a page in Internet Explorer or Firefox, copying a large file in Windows Explorer, or checking for new email in Outlook Express etc). *NVDA can report the groupbox that the object with focus is in (example: advanced page in system dialog, control pannel). *All objects are reviewable so you are able to check the spelling of things as you navigate around. *Password protection by saying stars when typing in to protected edit fields. *Massive improvements to the NVDA user interface as far as focus issues are concerned. *A built-in quick-start guide right in the NVDA user interface. *The addition of easy-to use dialogs, to configure many settings such as voice, pitch, rate, key echo, mouse navigation, object presentation and more. *Much improved support for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. *Much improved responsiveness for sapi5 synths. There have been many changes since revision 164 including: Also, I am always interested in help from other programmers who have skills in either the Python programming language, or skills in programming with MSAA and other accessibility APIs. Of course the only way for NVDA to grow and become better is for people to use it, and report bugs and suggest new features. I'm sure there are still bugs, and support for some applications could be a little better, but I personally now use NVDA as my day-to-day screen reader, and I know of others who are now starting to do the same. It does much more than Microsoft's Narator (including support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Outlook Express, Dos console windows, and much more). NonVisual Desktop Access is an entirely free (and open-source) screen reader for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Today I posted revision 315 of NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) to the NVDA website: Here's an announcement of another free screen reader that is open-source, so anyone can modify or suggest changes to it.
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