Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
More and more computers these days have touch capabilities, yet NVDA's touchscreen support has not been significantly expanded since it was first introduced. Users coming from iOS VoiceOver or Android TalkBack expect a richer set of gestures, but NVDA only supports basic taps, flicks, and hovers. There is no way to assign actions to gestures that start from a screen edge, perform a directional change in a single stroke, or use a two-finger pinch. This limits the total number of assignable touch gestures.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add three new categories of touch gesture:
Edge gestures
Gestures where the touch begins within a configurable margin of the left, right, or top screen edge. For example, a flick right starting from the left edge is distinct from a flick right starting in the middle of the screen. This allows scripts to be bound to edge-specific gestures.
Sequential flicks (continuous stroke)
Gestures where the user changes direction mid-stroke without lifting their finger. All 12 two-direction combinations are supported:
- Flick right then left
- Flick left then right
- Flick up then down
- Flick down then up
The remaining 8 are more of an angle kind of gestures:
- Flick right then up
- Flick right then down
- Flick left then up
- Flick left then down
- Flick up then right
- Flick up then left
- Flick down then right
- Flick down then left
Pinch in / pinch out
Two-finger gestures where the fingers move toward or away from each other.
Settings
Two new options in the Touch Interaction settings panel:
- Enable edge gestures checkbox (on by default)
- Edge gesture margin comboBox: Small (40px), Medium (80px, default), Large (120px)
- This is because we have different screen sizes and different finger sizes.
Both pinch and Sequential flicks gestures should also work at the edges too, as well as gestures that uses multiple fingers.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Let the current setup remain as it is, but that will mean having very limited set of gestures.
Additional context
No response
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
More and more computers these days have touch capabilities, yet NVDA's touchscreen support has not been significantly expanded since it was first introduced. Users coming from iOS VoiceOver or Android TalkBack expect a richer set of gestures, but NVDA only supports basic taps, flicks, and hovers. There is no way to assign actions to gestures that start from a screen edge, perform a directional change in a single stroke, or use a two-finger pinch. This limits the total number of assignable touch gestures.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add three new categories of touch gesture:
Edge gestures
Gestures where the touch begins within a configurable margin of the left, right, or top screen edge. For example, a flick right starting from the left edge is distinct from a flick right starting in the middle of the screen. This allows scripts to be bound to edge-specific gestures.
Sequential flicks (continuous stroke)
Gestures where the user changes direction mid-stroke without lifting their finger. All 12 two-direction combinations are supported:
The remaining 8 are more of an angle kind of gestures:
Pinch in / pinch out
Two-finger gestures where the fingers move toward or away from each other.
Settings
Two new options in the Touch Interaction settings panel:
Both pinch and Sequential flicks gestures should also work at the edges too, as well as gestures that uses multiple fingers.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Let the current setup remain as it is, but that will mean having very limited set of gestures.
Additional context
No response