Windows Magnifier

This add-on improves the use of Windows Magnifier with NVDA.

Features

Settings

The setting panel of Windows Magnifier add-on allows to configure how NVDA reacts to native Windows Magnifier commands. You may want to have more or less commands reported according to what you are able to see. The panel also contains an option to modify the behaviour of Windows Magnifier control window.

This panel may be opened choosing Preferences -> Settings in the NVDA menu and then selecting the Windows Magnifier category in the Settings window. The keyboard shortcut NVDA+Windows+O then O also allows to open this settings panel directly.

The panel contains the following options:

This option does not affect docked view mode.

Commands added by this add-on

In addition to native Magnifier commands, this add-on provide additional commands:

All these additional commands are accessible through the Magnifier layer command NVDA+Windows+O:

There is no default direct gesture for each command, but you can attribute one normally in the input gesture dialog if you wish. The same way, You can also modify or delete the Magnifier layer access gesture (NVDA+Windows+O). Yet, you cannot modify the shortcut key of the Magnifier layer sub-commands.

Magnifier's native commands

The result of the following Magnifier native commands may be reported by this add-on, according to its configuration:

Here is also a list of other Magnifier native commands, just for information:

None of the Magnifier native commands can be modified.

Notes

Change log

Version 3.7

Version 3.6

Version 3.5

Version 3.4

Version 3.3

Version 3.2

Version 3.1

Version 3.0

Version 2.0

Version 1.1

Version 1.0