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NVDA availability through the Microsoft Store #16498

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RuturajL opened this issue May 7, 2024 · 0 comments
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NVDA availability through the Microsoft Store #16498

RuturajL opened this issue May 7, 2024 · 0 comments
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blocked/needs-product-decision A product decision needs to be made. Decisions about NVDA UX or supported use-cases. p5 https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/issues/triage.md#priority triaged Has been triaged, issue is waiting for implementation.

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RuturajL commented May 7, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, NVDA screen reader is available through NVAccess website. It was briefly made available via Microsoft store, but owing to challenges mentioned in issue #14504, it was taken down.
Having NVDA on Microsoft store can greatly simplify how organizations and schools are able to deploy it to their managed devices, as well as maintain updated versions.

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Since Microsoft has started to allow treditional win32 apps in Microsoft store without any modifications, I see the old challenges mentioned in issue #14504 not applicable anymore.
I believe only a URL pointing to the installer is required in order to do this.
Details could be found at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/desktop-apps

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Currently not having NVDA on Microsoft store causes organizations to go through lot of manual work in order to deploy it to their managed devices. Every time an update releases, it's another set of steps. Having NVDA on the microsoft store can help us avoid or reduce that work. NVDA configurations and policies can be managed through the device management solution as well.
Individual users might also find this as a conveniant way to quickly download NVDA on their systems.

@seanbudd seanbudd added p5 https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/issues/triage.md#priority triaged Has been triaged, issue is waiting for implementation. blocked/needs-product-decision A product decision needs to be made. Decisions about NVDA UX or supported use-cases. labels May 14, 2024
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blocked/needs-product-decision A product decision needs to be made. Decisions about NVDA UX or supported use-cases. p5 https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/issues/triage.md#priority triaged Has been triaged, issue is waiting for implementation.
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