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Revise add-ons documentation links and text#19742

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Updated links and descriptions for the add-ons resources.
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Pull request overview

Updates the NVDA add-ons developer documentation to reflect current official resources and reduce reliance on legacy links.

Changes:

  • Replaces the legacy “Community add-ons website” link and note with the newer Add-on Store website link.
  • Updates the add-on template link to point to the nvaccess/AddonTemplate repository.

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kaveinthran commented Mar 5, 2026

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hi,
Earlier, @Qchristensen posted some more links to the add-on mailing list, and some links are not directly related or maintained by @nvaccessAuto .
But I guess many more people will be accessing the documentation and it should allow for an impression that NVDA is encouraging community involvement and contribution.
Hence, I am suggesting to include @josephsl dev docs as well, and among others, other actively maintained NVDA add-on store links so that people can submit there if the official store is not palatable.
I am seeing this liken to an rss implementation in which the podcast provider is also linking to other apps for easier discoverability.
here's the links shared by @Qchristensen

This is an important question (Looking for developer documentation) and I'm sure I've missed some great resources here > - and I acknowledge we could do better at making this easier to find.

What else is there I missed?

Additionally, Here're some add-on stores that I find valuable.

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nvdaes commented Mar 5, 2026

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@kaveinthran wrote:

Additionally, Here're some add-on stores that I find valuable.

Thanks for your mention. The webpage mentioned owned by me (nvdaes) is not a store. It's just a webpage created for testing when the official add-on store was created. Now NV Access has addonstore.nvaccess.org, and imo adding other sources for things that aren't owned by NV Access, not maintained by them and which aren't specific to documentation, in a section about documentation, is not a good idea.
If other stores are added, I think that this should be done in a different section, and with a justified purpose, explaining that these aren't maintained by NV Access, and explaining that the official store allows NVDA to check for add-ons integrity with sha-256, checks add-ons with virusTotal and CodeQL, and that other stores may not have these features. But fur the nvdaes website, which is independent to the add-ons directory, I think that this website owned by me shouldn't be included since it should be very similar to the addonstore.nvaccess.org, it's not maintained, and may be confusing.
Anyway thanks so much.

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nvdaes commented Mar 5, 2026

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Thank you so much @kaveinthran . Unless a separate section is created for external websites with a clear purpose, I plan to remove this website (or better,, unpublish it):

https://nvdaes.github.io/nvdastore/

@seanbudd , unless you think that a backup is useful with clarifications about possible lack or maintenance, I'll unpublish this to avoid confusions.

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kaveinthran commented Mar 5, 2026

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@nvdaes please don't unpublish, it greatly benefit to look for add-on info in one page like that.
can do search of description and name just through the find dialog.
You can perhaps include a disclaimer on the top of the page and link to the official version.

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@kaveinthran wrote:

please don't unpublish.
OK, I've added a disclaimer encouraging people to visit NV Access website at addonstore.nvaccess.org

@seanbudd seanbudd merged commit 1cb86dc into master Mar 5, 2026
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