2026.3 Add-on API changes

[NVDA Add-on API Announcements]

Add-on API changes have been merged, planned for inclusion in the 2026.2 release:

"Add multi routing gesture and select with routing command #20028".

If API breaks or planned future breaks (deprecations) will cause difficulties for the ongoing development of an add-on you maintain, please let NVDA developers know by replying directly to emails, or via GitHub.

Deprecations:

• The braille.BrailleDisplayGesture.routingIndex attribute is deprecated. Use the cellIndexes attribute instead

[NVDA Add-on API Announcements]

Add-on API changes have been merged, planned for inclusion in the 2026.2 release:

"Support multi routing on Freedom Scientific displays #20250".

If API breaks or planned future breaks (deprecations) will cause difficulties for the ongoing development of an add-on you maintain, please let NVDA developers know by replying directly to emails, or via GitHub.

Deprecations:

• brailleDisplayDrivers.freedomScientific.RoutingGesture is deprecated. Use KeyGesture instead. (#20250, @LeonarddeR)

[NVDA Add-on API Announcements]

Add-on API changes have been merged, planned for inclusion in the 2026.3 release:

"Add braille text wrap modes with continuation marks #20146".

If API breaks or planned future breaks (deprecations) will cause difficulties for the ongoing development of an add-on you maintain, please let NVDA developers know by replying directly to emails, or via GitHub.

Deprecations:

• The braille.wordWrap configuration key is deprecated and bridged to braille.textWrap

[NVDA Add-on API Announcements]

Add-on API changes have been merged, planned for inclusion in the 2026.3 release:

"Add sequential two-flick touch gestures #20086".

If API breaks or planned future breaks (deprecations) will cause difficulties for the ongoing development of an add-on you maintain, please let NVDA developers know by replying directly to emails, or via GitHub.

Deprecations:

• In touchTracker, the module-level action_* string constants are deprecated. Use the corresponding TouchAction enum members instead (e.g. TouchAction.TAP, TouchAction.FLICK_UP)
• In touchTracker, actionLabels is deprecated. Use TouchAction(value).displayString instead.

[NVDA Add-on API Announcements]

Add-on API changes have been merged, planned for inclusion in the 2026.3 release:

"Add Chinese Word Segmentation #20183".

If API breaks or planned future breaks (deprecations) will cause difficulties for the ongoing development of an add-on you maintain, please let NVDA developers know by replying directly to emails, or via GitHub.

Deprecations:

• * The useUniscribe attribute of textInfos.offsets.OffsetsTextInfo and its subclasses is deprecated, use charSegFlag and wordSegFlag instead.

[NVDA Add-on API Announcements]

Add-on API changes have been merged, planned for inclusion in the 2026.2 release:

"Convert ui.browseableMessage to wx.html2.WebView #20251".

If API breaks or planned future breaks (deprecations) will cause difficulties for the ongoing development of an add-on you maintain, please let NVDA developers know by replying directly to emails, or via GitHub.

Deprecations:

• The URL_MK_UNIFORM, DIALOG_OPTIONS and HTMLDLG_* constants in ui are deprecated with no replacement, as the COM-based HTML dialog infrastructure has been removed.
  Use gui.message.HtmlMessageDialog instead.

On Friday, June 12, 2026 at 5:08:20 PM UTC+10 NVDA Add-on API Announcements wrote: