NV Access is pleased to announce that NVDA 2010.2 has been released. This release has been declared stable, which means it is suitable for production use and is recommended for most users.

Notable features of NVDA 2010.2 include greatly simplified object navigation; virtual buffers for Adobe Flash content; access to many previously inaccessible controls by retrieving text written to the screen; flat review of screen text; support for IBM Lotus Symphony documents; reporting of table row and column headers in Mozilla Firefox; and significantly improved user documentation.

Changes from 2010.2rc1 to 2010.2:

• Updated translations.
• Fixed access to some Windows Security dialogs such as the dialog which appears when installing unsigned drivers in Windows 7.

Download links and change log:

• NVDA 2010.2 installer
• NVDA 2010.2 portable version
• What's new in 2010.2

NVDA 2010.2rc1 has just been released. This is a release candidate, which means that unless any critical issues are found, this will be almost identical to the final 2010.2 release.

Note that there may be some minor updates to some translations (particularly of the what's new document) in the final release.

Changes from beta2 to rc1:

• Updated translations.
• Updated What's New.
• Fixed the issue where copying text to the clipboard from flat review of the screen only copied part of the text in some circumstances. (#948)
• When moving the main cursor in virtual buffers, the review cursor will always review the entire document as intended, rather than reviewing the focused object. This was supposed to be fixed in beta2, but the fix was flawed.
• NVDA will now once again function in Windows XP with no service pack. This was supposed to be fixed in beta2, but another change had to be made to make this work correctly. (#908)

Download links and change log:

• NVDA 2010.2rc1 installer
• NVDA 2010.2rc1 portable version
• What's new in 2010.2rc1

At the end of the first, rather successful September fundathon, donations for NVDA totalled AU$590.00 (Around US$570.00 at time of writing). We would like to very much thank all who donated. As I mentioned in a previous post, we have decided to put these donations this time towards a specific project, which is to start implementing support for multitouch devices in NVDA. We had first planned to purchase a tablet PC, however it now seems that probably just a stand-alone multitouch monitor would be useful enough to start testing. We have some ideas on brands and models, and we will post more info once we have the new toy and start researching / implementing multitouch support in NVDA.