Weekly Update for 11 Nov

I didn't have a chance to write a weekly update last week due to the promised hack fest, which I will discuss in another post.

Here are the noteworthy changes to NVDA in the week prior to the hack fest:

Aleksey Sadovoy contributed a command (NVDA+c) to report the text on the Windows clipboard.
Several enhancements to virtual buffer pass through were added:
- Instead of virtual buffer pass through on and off, NVDA now reports focus mode and browse mode, respectively.
- Pressing escape while in focus mode returns to browse mode.
- NVDA can now switch to focus mode or browse mode as appropriate for the control under the virtual caret. This is also known as automatic virtual buffer pass through, which I described in a previous progress update.
Mick wrote a new SAPI 4 driver, which replaces the old sapi4serotek and sapi4activeVoice drivers. This new driver should fix the issues encountered with the previous drivers.

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