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SpeakTab 10.14.43 — JAWS and NVDA score navigation check

SpeakTab 10.14.43 is a free Windows release for reading and practising guitar tablature, chord charts and supported scores. This release changes how the focused score presents ordinary arrow navigation to screen readers. In the installed 10.14.43 build, Eden physically heard each tested move once with both JAWS and NVDA.

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Extract the complete Windows ZIP into a SpeakTab folder and run SpeakTab.exe with its runtime, licenses and guides together. Keep your original music and previous or recovery app copy. The in-app updater is available in 10.14.12 and newer; older versions need a complete ZIP installation once.

What changed

  • Ordinary Left/Right moves now select prebuilt native score rows with fixed accessible text. Up/Down continues to inspect simultaneous notes, including guitar strings and piano notes. Piano staff and measure context are spoken when they change, without adding the staff name to every following note.
  • Navigation keeps a brief length in the note phrase. An eighth note says 0.5 beat and a sixteenth says 0.25 beat. A held note keeps its remaining length. Full musical details remain available through the current explanation (Ctrl+3), source and playback.
  • The earlier JAWS duplication was intermittent. A diagnostic captured one arrow command and one score update while JAWS could speak the phrase twice. Highlighting and timing experiments did not eliminate it. The revised score rows address the navigation surface; the exact internal JAWS speech route was not established. No JAWS script or setting is included or changed.
  • Since the last public release, 10.14.39 saves each named reading as a .txt file directly in Saved Readings, with its music and workspace state preserved. Version 10.14.42 added fixed Alt+Shift+PageDown and Alt+Shift+PageUp for next and previous beat or note group. Ctrl+PageDown and Ctrl+PageUp continue to move between measures. Ordinary arrows remain the primary score controls.

Physical screen-reader check

Eden tested the installed 10.14.43 build with JAWS: three ordinary Right moves in a guitar reading; three Right moves and one Up/Down move in a piano reading; then about ten additional ordinary Left/Right moves. Each tested move spoke once. With NVDA, two Right moves and one Up/Down move each spoke once. The root release gate and all 69 focused software checks passed. These results cover basic score navigation in the tested readings. Other scores, Braille and devices, microphone/audio, loops and live teacher behavior need separate hands-on testing.

The in-app guide was embedded before those physical checks. Its local-test and public-10.14.38 status lines record that earlier checkpoint; the acceptance result above is the later status.

Guides and retained behavior

The current native guide is packaged with the app and available as a standalone HTML asset. The expanded Word user manual and Quick Start are still the reviewed 10.14.34 editions; their later navigation and saved-reading changes are covered by the current native guide and keyboard index. Original score notes, strings/frets, ties, rests, lyrics, saved music, exact source and playback timing are retained. No private music is included in this release.

Use Help > Report a bug / email Eden or open an issue to report a reading or screen-reader result. The app does not email reports automatically.

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