How to Use 4K Video Downloader Plus for Windows with NVDA

4K Video Downloader Plus is known to be a reliable option for downloading content from almost all video sharing platforms. Born in 2012, it has a user bank of over 62 million users all over the world till today. People like it for its simplicity and wide range of supported services. It is also capable to perform bulk downloading most efficiently, such as grabbing a complete playlist or copying the whole channel from YouTube to your computer storage, and all in your preferred format and quality. Additionally, with the evolving earning method of paid (member only) videos on YouTube by popular creators, 4K Video Downloader Plus started to support that mechanism too and allow their users to save those videos locally for watching forever without renewing their membership of that channel.

Prominent Features:

Most prominent features of 4K Video Downloader Plus includes:

• Download YouTube Playlists, Channels, and Search Results in One Click.
• Get Videos in 4K and 8K Quality and even in audio formats instead.
• Extract YouTube annotations and Subtitles in over 50 languages.
• Protected Content Access from all supported video services.
• Smart Mode Feature to Download videos faster. Set the quality, resolution and other preferences once, and automatically apply them to all future downloads.
• Built-In Browser to Search video and audio to download without leaving the application.
• In-app proxy support for unlimited access.
• YouTube Video Auto-Download: Get new videos downloaded automatically as soon as they are uploaded to YouTube by subscribing to a playlists and channels.

Requirements:

· The 4K Video Downloader Plus requires:

Supported Services:

Considering YouTube as the main source of qualitative videos, the 4K Video Downloader Plus covered almost all popular video hosting/sharing services. At the time of writing, 17 video sites are declared to be officially supported by 4K video downloader plus, and this list is gradually increasing.

Below the list of all supported websites till today:

• YouTube.
• Facebook.
• Vimeo.
• SoundCloud.
• Flickr.
• Dailymotion.
• Twitch - Recorded streams.
• TikTok.
• Likee.
• Bilibili.
• Bilibili.tv.
• Niconico.
• Rumble.
• Bitchute.
• Naver Blog.
• Naver Tv.
• XVideos.

Notes for Screen Reader Users:

In our testing, we cannot entitle the 4K Video Downloader Plus as 100% accessible with screen readers, but still is the fact that it is at least fully usable by using alternative navigation techniques. We are constantly following the developers team of 4K applications to improve this situation and they have promised to work for achieving best UI/UX in terms of accessibility. In this blog, we are discussing about operation of 4K Video Downloader Plus with NVDA, the most popular freeware in screen reader's industry, developed by NVAccess. Are you a JAWS user only? Don't worry, after thorough testing with JAWS, we'll connect to you in another blog. Just stay tuned with us!

How to Download Videos with 4K Video Downloader Plus:

When you open 4K video downloader, you can navigate among different options with the tab and shift+tab. Only following options can be interesting for you:

• Search field: Use to perform search on YouTube by keywords under in-app browsers.
• Paste link: Initiate downloading of the video link in your clipboard.
• a Checkbox without label: This is for enabling/disabling "smart mode" feature. Enabling this feature will download the best available quality automatically. If you want to choose the type, format and destination directory yourself, keep this disabled.

Steps to Execute Download:

1. Go to your preferred browser and open the video you want to download from a supported service.
2. While the video is playing, copy the link/URL of the current page from browser's address bar.
3. Go to 4K video downloader main window. Press tab to find the "paste link" button and activate it. Note: Pressing "enter" key may not work, use the Space Bar to activate this button.
   Activating the "paste link" button will do one of the following:
   • If "Smart mode" was enabled before pasting the link, 4K Video Downloader starts downloading the video instantly. Read the interface options in the previous section to learn more about toggling this feature on or off.
   • If "Smart mode" was disabled, the video download options appear for selecting type, quality, and destination folder.
4. When downloading is in progress, you can navigate the interface using next/previous object commands which are part of NVDA Object Navigation. You can find some filtration buttons like all, channels, playlists, etc., then the name of the video currently being downloaded, and the progress info like percentage, current speed, and time remaining.
   The proposed commands are as follows:
   • Read previous object: NVDA+NumPad4 (desktop keyboard layout), NVDA+Shift+Left arrow (Laptop keyboard layout).
   • Read next object: NVDA+NumPad6 (desktop keyboard layout), NVDA+Shift+Right Arrow (Laptop keyboard layout).
5. If Smart Mode was disabled, you'll be presented with a new dialog to choose download options. You can navigate this dialog with Tab/Shift+Tab keys. You'll find the following options:
   • Combo box to choose the type. Press up/down to choose between "video" and "audio". Press Tab for the next option.
   • Format selection combo box. Press up/down to choose from available formats. If "video" was selected, you'll find MP4 and MKV. If "audio" was selected, you'll find MP3, M4A, and OGG.
   • Select the preferred quality using radio buttons. Navigate with Tab/Shift+Tab and select using the Space Bar.
   • Some qualities may have multiple codecs (e.g., AVC, H263, H264). Use NVDA Object Navigation to read the description of each option to learn more about the codecs.
   • The destination directory is set by default to the "Videos" folder, but you can change it in the dialog.
   • To cancel, press the "Cancel" button. To proceed with the download, press the "Download" button to start downloading.
6. Refer to step 5 above to check the download progress in the main window with NVDA.
7. Download time depends on various factors like internet speed, video quality, and the number of videos. Be patient and check the progress.
8. Upon completion, 4K Video Downloader will notify you via a Windows desktop notification, which is read by NVDA. Find the video in the selected destination folder.

Important Notice:

This procedure is applicable to the latest version of 4K Video Downloader Plus application till the date. At the time of writing, the latest version available is 1.9.0.0128. The user interface of the program is subject to change by their developers anytime in future versions, which may impact the accuracy of steps proposed above. For most up-to-date information, it is necessary to be connected with us on social media and keep visiting our website/blog.

Conclusion:

After numerous evaluations of different video downloading applications in various context, we found 4K Video Downloader Plus as the most reliable option in case of downloading hundreds of videos at a time or saving whole YouTube channels and playlists at once. That's why we want to bring excellence of this software to our fans and visitors all around the globe. By reading this blog today, we're sure that you have learned enough to be able to use 4K video downloader successfully while using NVDA, without any sighted assistance.