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Many of the pages in this wiki have already been migrated. A list of living pages in this wiki exist below:

For NVDA users

• FAQ
• Application Support
• Connect
• Guides
  • Switching from Window Eyes to NVDA
  • Switching From JAWS To NVDA
  • Using the Ribbon with NVDAListTagged
• Extra Voices
• Log Files And Crash Dumps
• Log Levels (move to userguide / delete?)

Translating

• Translating
• Translating the locale txt2tags configuration file (locale.t2tconf)
• Translating Addons
• Translating Changes
• Translating Character Descriptions
• Translating Gestures
• Translating Symbols
• Translating The Interface
• Translating User Guide
• Translating Using Automatic Process
• Translating Using Manual Process

Development

Process

This section will be moved to the NVDA repository as a priority

• Copyright headers
• Dependency Updates (outdated/draft)
• Lint With Flake8
• Making Automated Builds

Design

• Internals
• Notes Adding support for aria attributes to browsers
• Using COM with NVDA and Microsoft Word

Debugging / testing

• Debugging crashes
• Debugging Braille Display Drivers
• Log Files And Crash Dumps
• Log Levels (move to userguide / delete?)
• Testing braille output without a braille display

Braille

• Adding Support For A Braille Display
• Braille framework
• Debugging Braille Display Drivers
• Testing braille output without a braille display

Projects

• Improving the console experience with UI Automation

Projects (Archived)

• GSOC 2019 Ideas List
• GSOC 2020 Ideas List
• nvda Py3 upgrade
• Speech Refactor Use Case Notes