NVDA

What's new in this version:

New Features:
- NVDA's Miranda NG support works with newer versions of the client
- You can now disable browse mode by default by disabling the new "Enable browse mode on page load" option in NVDA's browse mode settings
- Note that when this option is disabled, you can still enable browse mode manually by pressing NVDA+space
- You can now filter symbols in the punctuation/symbol pronunciation dialog, similar to how filtering works in the elements list and input gestures dialog
- A command has been added to change the mouse text unit resolution (how much text will be spoken when the mouse moves), it has not been assigned a default gesture
- The windows OneCore synthesizer now has a rate boost option, which allows for significantly faster speech
- The Rate Boost option is now configurable from the Synth Settings Ring for supported speech synthesizers. (Currently eSpeak-NG and Windows OneCore)
- Configuration profiles can now be manually activated with gestures
- The gesture must be configured in the "Input gestures" dialog
- In Eclipse, added support for autocompletion in code editor
- Additionally, Javadoc information can be read from the editor when it is present by using NVDA+d
- Added an experimental option to the Advanced Settings panel that allows you to stop the system focus from following the browse mode cursor (Automatically set system focus to focusable elements). Although this may not be suitable to turn off for all websites, this may fix
- Rubber band effect: NVDA sporadically undoes the last browse mode keystroke by jumping to the previous location
- Edit boxes steal system focus when arrowing down through them on some websites
- Browse mode keystrokes are slow to respond
- For braille display drivers that support it, driver settings can now be changed from the braille settings category in NVDA's settings dialog
- Freedom Scientific braille displays are now supported by braille display auto detection
- Added a command to show the replacement for the symbol under the review cursor
- Added an experimental option to the Advanced Settings panel that allows you to try out a new, work-in-progress rewrite of NVDA's Windows Console support using the Microsoft UI Automation API
- In the Python Console, the input field now supports pasting multiple lines from the clipboard

Changes:
- Synthesizer volume is now increased and decreased by 5 instead of 10 when using the settings ring
- Clarified the text in the add-on manager when NVDA is launched with the --disable-addons flag
- Updated Unicode Common Locale Data Repository emoji annotations to version 35.0
- The hotkey for the filter field in the elements list in browse mode has changed to alt+y
- When an auto detected braille display is connected via Bluetooth, NVDA will keep searching for USB displays supported by the same driver and switch to a USB connection if it becomes available
- Updated eSpeak-NG to commit 67324cc
- Updated liblouis braille translator to version 3.10.0
- NVDA will now report the word 'selected' after reporting the text a user has just selected
- In Microsoft Visual Studio Code, NVDA is in focus mode by default

Bug Fixes:
- NVDA no longer crashes when an add-on directory is empty
- LTR and RTL marks are no longer reported in Braille or per-character speech when accessing the properties window
- When jumping to form fields with Browse Mode quick navigation, the entire form field is now announced rather than just the first line
- NVDA will no longer become silent after exiting the Windows 10 Mail app
- NVDA no longer fails to start when the users regional settings are set to a locale unknown to NVDA, such as English (Netherlands)
- When browse mode is enabled in Microsoft Excel and you switch to a browser in focus mode or vice versa, browse mode state is now reported appropriately
- NVDA now properly reports the line at the mouse cursor in Notepad++ and other Scintilla based editors
- In Google Docs (and other web-based editors), braille no longer sometimes incorrectly shows "lst end" before the cursor in the middle of a list item
- In the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, NVDA no longer speaks many volume notifications if changing the volume with hardware buttons when File Explorer has focus
- Loading the punctuation/symbol pronunciation dialog is now much faster when using symbol dictionaries containing over 1000 entries
- In Scintilla controls such as Notepad++, NVDA can read the correct line when wordwrap is enabled
- In Microsoft Excel, the cell location is announced after it changes due to the shift+enter or shift+numpadEnter gestures
- In Visual Studio 2017 and up, in the Objects Explorer window, the selected item in objects tree or members tree with categories is now reported correctly
- Add-ons with names that only differ in capitalization are no longer treated as separate add-ons
- For Windows OneCore voices, the rate set in NVDA is no longer affected by the rate set in Windows 10 Speech Settings
- The log can now be opened with NVDA+F1 when there is no developer info for the current navigator object
- It is again possible to use NVDA's table navigation commands in Google Docs, in Firefox and Chrome
- The bumper keys now work correctly on Freedom Scientific braille displays
- When reading the first character of a document in Notepad++ 7.7 X64, NVDA no longer freezes for up to ten seconds
- HTCom can now be used with a Handy Tech Braille display in combination with NVDA
- In Mozilla Firefox, updates to a live region are no longer reported if the live region is in a background tab
- NVDA's browse mode Find dialog no longer fails to function if NVDA's About dialog is currently open in the background

Changes for Developers:
- You can now set the "disableBrowseModeByDefault" property on app modules to leave browse mode off by default
- The extended window style of a window is now exposed using the `extendedWindowStyle` property on Window objects and their derivatives
- Updated comtypes package to 1.1.7
- When using the report module info command, the order of information has changed to present the module first
- Added an example to demonstrate using nvdaControllerClient.dll from C#
- Added a new isWin10 function to the winVersion module which returns whether or not this copy of NVDA is running on (at least) the supplied release version of Windows 10 (such as 1903)
- The NVDA Python console now contains more useful modules in its namespace (such as appModules, globalPlugins, config and textInfos)
- The result of the last executed command in the NVDA Python console is now accessible from the _ (line) variable
- Note that this shadows the gettext translation function also called "_". To access the translation function: del _