Audacity multi-track editor: accessibility enhancement - History

URL: https://github.com/paulber19/audacityAccessEnhancementNVDAAddon.git

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• Current stable version: 3.4
• Previous stable Version: 3.3.2
• Development's versions

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1. V3.4 (February/26/2026)

Compatibility with NVDA 2026.1.

NVDA versions prior to 2025.1 are no longer supported.

News:

• Addition of a script "NVDA+windows+j" to announce the duration contained in a time editing area.

Bogs corrections:

• Correction of the error that was podied when a recent file was imported.

Development:

• removal of code regarding NVDA versions lower than 2025.1.
• to display the "What's new" of a new version of the add-on, the "changes.html" document is no longer opened by "urlopen", but is downloaded, saved momentarily in the "appData\local\temp" folder and opened in the browser.
• taking into account the closure of the rawgit.com site for updating add-ons.
• use of json instead of pickle to store the add-on update status.

Compliance with the NVDA API:

• taking into account the movement of the NVDA version in the "buildVersion.py" module.

2. v3.3 (June/05/2025)

Compatibility with NVDA 2025.1.

NVDA versions prior to 2024.1 are no longer supported.

Compatibility with audacity 3.7.1. versions lower than version 3.5.1 and 32-bit versions are no longer supported.

Bug fixes:

• the update search is no longer done when the "Automatically search for updates" option is unchecked just after starting NVDA.

Development :

• when installing the extension, the current configuration is no longer saved in the extension folder but is now saved in the user configuration folder. This allows you to still keep the current configuration if an installation goes wrong.

Compliance with the NVDA API:

• Use of the "ExecandPump" method of the "Systemutils" module.
• Take into account the obsolescence of Gui.messagebox and Gui.message.messagebox, replaced by messagedialog:
  • Messagedialog is now used for all NVDA versions greater than 2025.1.

3. v3.2 (October/11/2024)

• compatibility with NVDA 2024.2, 2024.3 and 2024.4.
• compatibility and tests with Audacity 3.6.4 x64,3.6.2 x64 and 3.5.1 x64.
• upgraded the Audacity guide written by David Bailes.

4. v3.1 (March/23/2024)

Compatibility with NVDA 2024.1

What's new:

• taking into account the "Speech on demand" mode introduced in nvda 2024.1: all scripts announcing information will vocalize this information. In this mode, all other scripts will remain silent.

Bug Fixes:

• the radio button allowing you to choose the type of export (export the entire project, export of multiple files, etc.) is now accessible.

5. v3.0 (Nobember/23/2023)

New:

• naming toolbar panels into "lower panels" and "upper panel".
• naming of the panel containing the track view as "Main panel".

Changes:

• The scripts to announce the start, the end, the duration and the center of the selection are replaced by:
  • a script to announce the selection,
  • a script to announce the first time of the selection,
  • a script to announce the second time of the selection.
• in the documentation, the term group" for toolbars is replaced by "panel".
• the "Vocalization of Audacity digital time selection boxes" functionality is not available in versions 3.3.x of Audacity.

Compatibility:

• This version of the extension has been tested with Audacity 3.4, 3.4.2, 3.3.0 and 3.3.3. It should also be compatible with versions 3.3.1 and 3.3.2, but no testing has been done.
• Compatibility with versions prior to 3.3.0 is no longer supported.
• NVDA versions below 2022.1 are no longer supported.

6. v2.9 (August/03/2023)

• the audio position is no longer announced after restarting playback. This happened with Audacity versions 3.2.2 and above. In these versions, the state of the "play" and "pause" buttons is no longer available with MSAA), unlike previous versions.

7. v2.8 (February/14/2023)

• compatibility with audacity 3.2.3
• compatibility with NVDA 2023.1
• discontinuation of versions prior to audacity 3.0.

Changes:

• updating the Audacity guide for versions 3.2.3 ( see guide written by David Bell )

8. v2.7 (May/26/2022)

Bug fixes:

• replacement of curLang by getLanguage
• error when launching a script in the dialog that lists the command interpreter scripts.

Changes:

• updating the Audacity guide for versions 3.1.0 to 3.1.3 ( see guide written by David Bell https://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-3.1.0- )

9. v2.6 (02/04/2022)

• Compatibility with NVDA 2022.1
• reset the configuration in the event of errors in the configuration file.

Changes:

• during an automatic update of the add-on, it no longer asks the user if he wants to keep the current configuration parameters of the add-on.
• during a manual installation of the add-on, a confirmation request is requested when the user has chosen not to keep the current settings of the add-on configuration.

10. v2.5 (12/01/2021)

• Compatibility with NVDA 2021.3
• removed the warning message indicating that the extension has not been tested with the version of Audacity used.

11. v2.4.1 (06/25/2021)

Adding turkish translation

12. v2.4 (06/18/2021)

• Compatibility with NVDA 2021.1. Versions of NVDA prior to 2019.3 are not supported.
• removal of the code concerning Python 2.7.
• compatibility with audacity 3.0.2.

13. v2.3 (08/04/2021)

Compatibility with Audacity 3.0

14. v2.2 (18/12/2020)

• compatibility with NVDA 2020.4
• addition of the "View history" button in the "Update" category of the add-on's parameters.

15. v2.1 (27/10/2020)

• compatibility with NVDA 2020.3
• code cleaning (corrections of errors detected by Flake8)
• addition of the "What's new" button in the dialog proposing the installation of a new update.

16. Version 2.0 (01/08/2020)

Compatibility with audacity 2.4.2 and 2.4.1.

• compatibility with NVDA 2020.2
• adding option to desactivate enhanced announcement of edit spin boxes.
• parameters dialog with category.
• code modified for searching object based on controlID

17. Version 1.4.5 (19/05/2020)

Bugs's correction:

• bad support of audacity 2.3.2 version.

18. Version 1.4.4 (11/05/2020)

Adding turkish translation

19. Version 1.4.3 (08/05/2020)

Bug corrections:

• bad detection of Transport tools bar.
• error when timer in Speed change dialog gains focus.

20. Version 1.4.2.1 (06/04/2020)

Adding arabic translation

21. Version 1.4.1 (03/04/2020)

updating of history of add-on's changes.

22. Version 1.4 (03/04/2020)

• compatibility with NVDA 2020.1,
• compliance for NVDA extension compatibility test

23. v1.3 (01/10/2019)

-Compatibility with NVDA 2019.3.

• adding automatic update check.
• correction of the documentation.
• translation of the addon in Spanish by Rémy Ruiz, changes by Gunther Melendez.

24. v1.2 (01/06/2019)

• Modification of manifest.ini file for compatibility with NVDA 2019.2.0.

25. v1.1 (16/03/2019)

• Modification of manifest.ini file for compatibility with NVDA 2019.1.0.
• code changes for compatibility with python 3.

26. v1.0.2 (28/12/2018)

Correction of bad announcement of selection.

27. v1.0.1 (22/12/2018)

Small documentation correction.

28. v1.0 (20/12/2018)

• version number restarted to 1.0 cause of name change,
• compatibility with Audacity 2.3.0,
• the scripts of "shell scripts display" dialog are listed with possibility to run selected script,
• improvement of the accessibility of the edit boxes of the time in the "timer Recording" dialog,
• major overhaul of the code.

29. v3.2 (19/06/2018)

• compatibility with NVDA 2018.2,
• settings management on installation or uninstallation (adding install.py file),
• clean-up and repackaging of code.

30. v3.1 (07/01/2018)

• addon modified to be in the addon template form and stored in git hub repository.

31. v3.0.1 (04/01/2018)

• settings addon menu bug fix,
• adding future directive for python 3 compatibility.

32. v3.0 (11/2017)

• compatibility with Audacity 2.2.0, new - scripts to announce the peak meters and sliders for playback or recording,
• new scripts to announce the duration and the position of the center of the selection,
• restriction of the use of certain scripts to the tracks view conformémant to the documentation,
• implementation of the command interpreter,
• implementation of an interceptor of keyboard keys as a replacement to the watchdog,
• implementation of a configuration file,
• structuring the module to the repository on github.
• update the user manual.

33. v2.3 (08/2017)

• script "alt+control+f4" to activate or deactivate the announcement of the selection changes,
• compatibility with audacity v2.1.3,
• resumption of the code.

34. v2.2 (06/2015)

• restructuring of the code

35. v2.1 (10/2014)

• compatibility with NVDA 2014.3
• compatibility with Audacity v2.06

36. v2.0 (05/2014)

• establishment of a supervisory field position and selection to announce the changes.

37. v1.0 (01/2014)

Creation of the add-on