Windows 11 gets context menu changes, new accesibility features, and more in build 27881

Windows 11 gets context menu changes, new accesibility features, and more in build 27881

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Microsoft has launched a brand new Home windows 11 preview construct for Canary Channel Insiders. Construct 27881 is now out there for obtain with improved voice typing, speech recap in Narrator, context menu adjustments, some minor taskbar enhancements, and extra.

With right this moment’s launch, voice typing acquired a brand new toggle that permits you to flip off or on profanity filtering. This can allow you to say dangerous phrases with out Home windows 11 censoring them (or vice versa). Yow will discover it by urgent Win + H and clicking the Settings icon > Filter Profanity.

Narrator now has a brand new “Speech Recap” function, which helps you to entry a transcript of all the pieces that Narrator has spoken. To entry this function, press Narrator Key + Alt + X. You will see that the final 500 strings of spoken content material. If wanted, you possibly can export the transcript by urgent the Narrator key + Ctrl + X (copy to clipboard).

Different adjustments in construct 27881 embrace renewed safety certificates, a brand new needy state capsule on the taskbar (apps that require your consideration), a reworked accessibility flyout with function classes, a built-in picture editor for the Share UI, and the power to share recordsdata on to apps that assist Home windows sharing (Proper Click on > Share with).

The Settings app acquired a brand new part with incessantly requested questions on your PC and its specs, and a redesigned printer rename UI.

Right here is the checklist of fixes:

[General]

  • Fastened a problem for Insiders on the earlier construct inflicting a number of the textual content in Home windows to not be utilizing the proper characters, inflicting nonsense to show in locations like Job Supervisor and extra. This impacted characters exterior of A-Z – together with Chinese language and accented characters in German and Polish.
  • Fastened a problem the place booting into secure mode wasn’t working, with a message saying “One thing occurred and your PIN isn’t out there” for some folks.

[File Explorer]

  • Fastened a problem the place File Explorer would crash when tapping the View button with contact.

[Start menu]

  • Fastened a problem which was inflicting Begin menu to crash on launch for some Insiders in the previous couple of flights.

[Taskbar]

  • Fastened an underlying difficulty which was inflicting keyboard focus to get set to widgets within the taskbar on login, which may make widgets unexpectedly invoke.
  • Fastened a problem which may trigger the media controls within the preview home windows for apps within the taskbar (that assist it) to flicker.
  • Fastened a problem the place when utilizing Tab and Shift + Tab to maneuver keyboard focus across the taskbar, in the event you went backwards a minimum of as soon as you might get keyboard focus caught on the taskbar body, main some display readers to simply say “pane”.
  • Fastened a problem the place WIN + CTRL + wasn’t working to cycle between home windows of open apps for that place on the taskbar.

[Input]

  • Fastened a problem the place typing Japanese with the contact keyboard may cease working after switching to typing with an English keyboard and again.
  • Fastened a problem the place voice typing wouldn’t begin from the contact keyboard when utilizing the Chinese language (Simplified) slim structure.
  • Fastened a problem the place when utilizing the Symbols part of the contact keyboard, urgent the important thing to alter pages may unexpectedly insert a personality into password fields.

[Settings]

  • Fastened a problem the place you couldn’t swap lively hours from manually to computerized in Home windows Replace.
  • Adjusted the situation of the depth and colour enhance sliders beneath Settings > Accessibility > Coloration Filters, so the colour previews on the high of the web page are seen whereas adjusting the sliders.

[Voice access]

  • Fastened a problem which was inflicting voice entry crashes when utilizing Spanish.

[Other]

  • Fastened a problem the place in the event you clear put in Home windows utilizing the set up media, it might unexpectedly generate an empty Home windows.outdated folder whenever you have been completed.
  • Made one other repair for Insiders unexpectedly seeing an Administrative Templates error message when opening Group Coverage Editor.

Right here is the checklist of identified bugs:

[General]

[IMPORTANT NOTE FOR COPILOT+ PCs] If you’re becoming a member of the Canary Channel on a brand new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Launch Preview Channel or retail, you’ll lose Home windows Hiya pin and biometrics to signal into your PC with error 0xd0000225 and error message “One thing went flawed, and your PIN isn’t out there”. You need to have the ability to re-create your PIN by clicking “Arrange my PIN”.

  • We’re engaged on the repair for an underlying difficulty the place the taskbar is unexpectedly not exhibiting acrylic materials after upgrading to the most recent Canary builds. That is impacting just a few different eventualities, resulting in surprising black or white in some UI.
  • [NEW] The “Reset this PC” choice beneath Settings > System > Restoration is not going to work after upgrading to Construct 27881. You possibly can nonetheless use the “Return” choice to roll again to the earlier construct or obtain the ISO for Construct 27881 right here to reinstall Home windows.

[Settings]

  • [NEW] We’re investigating a problem on this construct which can trigger Settings to crash when opening microphone properties beneath Settings > System > Sound.

Yow will discover the announcement publish right here.

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roosho Senior Engineer (Technical Services)
I am Rakib Raihan RooSho, Jack of all IT Trades. You got it right. Good for nothing. I try a lot of things and fail more than that. That's how I learn. Whenever I succeed, I note that in my cookbook. Eventually, that became my blog. 
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