We have four main types of NVDA builds: Alpha, Beta, RC, and Stable.īoth NV Access, and our amazing community contributors constantly work on new features and fixes for NVDA. So the new beta is out… But just what IS a beta version of NVDA anyway? There are many bug fixes, particularly for braille, Microsoft Office, web browsers and Windows 11.ĮSpeak-NG, LibLouis braille translator, and Unicode CLDR have been updated.

Navigating and reporting formatting in Microsoft Office is improved.

There are also new input gestures for OCR and flattened object navigation. There are new braille features, commands, and display support. You can now manually override incompatibility issues with outdated add-ons at your own risk. In the Add-on Store you can browse, search, install and update community add-ons. This release introduces the Add-on Store to replace the Add-ons Manager. The big news this week is that Beta 1 of NVDA 2023.2 is out! NVDA 2023.2 is a huge update with lots of new features and updates.

Download the new NVDA 2023.2 Beta 2