NVDA Coach 1.5.7
This release adds Chinese localization — both Simplified and Traditional — and fixes several internationalization issues.
🌏 New languages
- Chinese (Simplified) — 简体中文 (zh_CN): Complete translation of all six lesson chapters (45 lessons, 165 steps), all interface strings, all three documentation pages, and the Add-on Store description. Set NVDA's language to Chinese (Simplified) to use it.
- Chinese (Traditional) — 繁體中文 (zh_TW): Complete Traditional Chinese localization for Taiwan, using Taiwan NVDA terminology (螢幕閱讀器, 物件導航, 核取方塊, 自訂, 附加元件) — a full Traditional translation, not a character-swap.
The Chinese lessons are adapted, not just translated: Chapter 3's reading-practice passages were rewritten as idiomatic Chinese that keeps every structural claim true, and the settings lessons use arrow-key navigation instead of first-letter category jumps (which assume English category names).
♿ Accessibility
- Practice-window control labels are now translatable. Every label in the three practice environments — the contact form, the checkbox/button frame, and the login form (including the Username/Password field names NVDA announces) — was hardcoded in English. They are now localized in both Chinese variants, so students hear the same names the lessons tell them to find.
🐛 Fixes
- Corrected the wrong next-chapter hint at the end of Getting Started (it named "Reading and Moving Through Text" instead of "Your Keyboard" — a leftover from the v1.5.5 pointer fix). Fixed in English, Spanish, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
🔧 Internal
- Regenerated the translation template, which had been stale since v1.5.1. About 95 interface strings (the certificate system, profile dialog, and completion messages) were missing and fell back to English in every language; the template now covers all 203 UI strings. Both Chinese variants translate the full set. The Spanish, Russian, Turkish, and Brazilian Portuguese catalogs have the new strings added as untranslated entries for their translators to complete.
Compatibility: NVDA 2024.1 and later, tested through 2026.1.1.
To install: download nvdaCoach-1.5.7.nvda-addon below and open it with NVDA.