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NVDA 2020.4

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What's new in this version:

New:
- Pressing F1 inside NVDA dialogs will now open the help file to most relevant section
- Support for auto complete suggestions (IntelliSense) in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio plus Visual Studio 2017 and higher
- Symbol pronunciation: Support for grouping in a complex symbol definition and support group references in a replacement rule making them simpler and more powerful
- Users are now notified when attempting to create Speech Dictionary entries with invalid regular expression substitutions
- Specifically grouping errors are now
- Added support for the new chinese Traditional Quick and Pinyin Input methods in Windows 10
- Tab headers are now considered form fields with quick navigation f key
- Added a command to toggle reporting of marked (highlighted) text; There is no default associated gesture
- Added the --copy-portable-config command line parameter that allows you to automatically copy the provided configuration to the user account when silently installing NVDA
- Braille routing is now supported with the Braille Viewer for mouse users, hover to route to a braille cell
- NVDA will now automatically detect the Humanware Brailliant BI 40X and 20X devices via both USB and Bluetooth

Changed:
- Updated liblouis braille translator to version 3.16.1:
- Addresses multiple crashes
- Adds Bashkir grade 1 Braille table
- Adds Coptic 8 dot computer braille table
- Adds Russian literary braille and Russian literary braille (detailed) tables
- Adds Added Afrikaans grade 2 braille table
- Removes the Russian grade 1 Braille table
- When reading with say all in browse mode, the find next and find previous commands do not stop reading anymore if Allow skim reading option is enabled; say all rather resumes from after the next or previous found term
- For HIMS braille displays F3 has been remapped to Space + dots 148
- Improvements to the UX of the "braille message timeout" and "Show messages indefinitely" options
- In web browsers and other applications that support browse mode, the Elements List dialog (NVDA+F7) can now be invoked when in focus mode
- Updates to ARIA live regions are now suppressed when reporting of dynamic content changes is disabled
- NVDA will now report "Copied to clipboard" before the copied tex
- Presentation of graphical view table in disk management has been improved
- Labels for controls are now disabled (greyed out) when the control is disabled
- Updated CLDR emoji annotation to version 38
- The inbuilt "Focus Highlight" feature has been renamed "Vision Highlight"

Fixed:
- NVDA once again works correctly with edit fields when using the Fast Log Entry application
- Report elapsed time in Foobar2000 if no total time is available (e.g. when playing a live stream)
- NVDA now honors the aria-roledescription attribute on elements in editable content in web pages
- 'list' is no longer announced on every line of a list in Google Docs or other editable content in Google Chrome
- When arrowing by character or word from one list item to another in editable content on the web, entering the new list item is now announced
- NVDA now reads the correct line when the caret is placed at the end of a link on the end of a list item in Google Docs or other editable content on the web
- On Windows 7, opening and closing the start menu from the desktop now sets focus correctly
- When "attempt to cancel expired focus events" is enabled, the title of the tab is now announced again when switching tabs in Firefox
- NVDA no longer fails to announce a list item after typing a character in a list when speaking with the SAPI5 Ivona voices
- It is again possible to use browse mode when reading emails in Windows 10 Mail 16005.13110 and later
- When using the SAPI5 Ivona voices from harposoftware.com, NVDA is now able to save configuration, switch synthesizers, and no longer will stay silent after restarting
- It is now possible to enter number 6 in computer braille from a braille keyboard on HIMS displays
- Major performance improvements in Azure Data Studio
- With "Attempt to Cancel speech for expired focus events" enabled the title of the NVDA Find dialog is announced again
- NVDA should no longer freeze when waking the computer and focus lands in a Microsoft Edge document
- It is no longer necessary to press tab or move focus after closing a context menu in MS Edge for browse mode to be functional again
- NVDA no longer fails to read items in list views within a 64-bit application such as Tortoise SVN
- ARIA treegrids are now exposed as normal tables in browse mode in both Firefox and Chrome
- A reverse search can now be initiated with 'find previous' via NVDA+shift+F3
- An NVDA script is no longer treated as being repeated if an unrelated key press happens in between the two executions of the script
- Strong and emphasis tags in Internet Explorer can again be suppressed from being reported by returning off Report Emphasis in NVDA's Document Formatting settings
- A freeze of several seconds experienced by a small amount of users when arrowing between cells in Excel should no longer occur
- In Microsoft Teams builds with version numbers like 1.3.00.28xxx, NVDA no longer fails reading messages in chats or Teams channels due to an incorrectly focused menu
- Text marked both as being a spelling and grammar error at the same time in Google Chrome will be appropriately announced as both a spelling and grammar error by NVDA
- When using Outlook (French locale), the shortcut for 'Reply all' (control+shift+R) works again
- In Visual Studio, IntelliSense tool tips that provide additional details about the currently selected IntelliSense item are now only reported once
- In Windows 10 Calculator, NVDA will not announce progress of calculations if speak typed characters is disabled
- NVDA no longer crashes when using English US grade 2 and expand to computer Braille at the cursor is on, when displaying certain content such as a URL in Braille
- It is again possible to report formatting information for the focused Excel cell using NVDA+F
- QWERTY input on Papenmeier braille displays that support it again works and no longer causes NVDA to randomly freeze

Changes for Developers:
- System tests can now send keys using spy.emulateKeyPress, which takes a key identifier that conforms to NVDA's own key names, and by default also blocks until the action is executed
- NVDA no longer requires the current directory to be the NVDA application directory in order to function
- The aria live politeness setting for live regions can now be found on NVDA Objects using the liveRegionPoliteness property
- It is now possible to define separate gestures for Outlook and Word document