SuperNova Magnifier & Screen Reader Update 15.05

Released: 13/07/2016

Languages supported: Arabic, Arabic (France), Belgian Dutch, Belgian French, Chinese (English), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English (Australia), English (South African), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Finnish, French, German, Greek (English), Icelandic, Indian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Swedish (Arabic), Swiss German, Welsh

NEW: Support for Office 2016

SuperNova 15.05 now includes True Font magnification, speech and screen reader support for the 2016 editions of Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint.

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NEW: Support for Skype for Business

For visually impaired employees, SuperNova now includes magnification, speech and screen reader support for Skype for Business.

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Windows 10 Improvements:

SuperNova now magnifies and speaks the Windows 10 Start Menu accurately, reliably and consistently.

The Windows 10 Start Menu context menu (SHIFT + F10) now speaks correctly.

Office 2013 Improvements:

Significant improvements have been made to SuperNova’s calendar support in Outlook 2013.

FIX: Excel 2013 formula bar is now tracking and speaking correctly.

FIX: In 64bit versions of Word lines of text with mixed attributes (fonts, colours etc) were not being reported correctly. This is now fixed.

FIX: In Outlook SuperNova now correctly announces “has attachment” (only applies to US and UK English editions)

FIX: Improvements to the speech in MS Paint.

Other Fixes:

FIX: Caps lock, num lock and scroll lock were being announced as password characters in password entry fields. This is now fixed.

FIX: Connect & View connections are resolved in PowerPoint.

FIX: Custom mouse pointers that disappeared when using the touchscreen have now been resolved.

FIX: Customers using the Hebrew edition of SuperNova are now able to use File Explorer in Windows 8 and 10 and will experience text announced from right to left.