Enhanced Touchscreen Gestures

• Authors: Joseph Lee, Kefas Lungu

This add-on provides additional touchscreen gestures for NVDA, including focus reporting and synth settings ring gestures.

Note: this add-on requires NVDA 2026.2 or later running on a touchscreen computer with Windows 10 or 11.

Commands

Available everywhere

• Two finger tripple tap: quits NVDA!
• Three finger flick right: press Tab.
• Three finger flick left: press Shift+Tab.
• Three finger flick down (object mode): read current window.
• Three finger double tap: cycles through speech symbol levels which determine what symbols are spoken.
• Three finger triple tap: toggles screen curtain.
• Four finger tap: cycles through audio ducking modes.
• Four finger double tap: toggle input help mode.
• Four finger flick left: report object with focus.
• Four finger flick right: report current navigator object.
• Four finger flick up: report title of the current window.
• Four finger flick down: report status bar text.

Synth settings touch mode

You can use this mode to quickly change synthesizer settings such as choosing a voice and changing volume. In this mode, use two finger flick left or right to move between synth settings and use two finger flick up and down gestures to change values. This gestures mirrors that of synth settings ring commands on the keyboard.

For a list of changes made between each add-on releases, refer to changelogs for add-on releases document.