Last year was an excellent one for Leasey. Many powerful new features were introduced, workflows were refined, and accessibility remained at the heart of everything we built. Now it’s time to look ahead to 2026 and the first public release of Leasey Version 11.
This upcoming version takes some major steps forward — expanding how you work with AI, transforming the way you capture table data, and refining long-standing features to make them more reliable, flexible, and efficient than ever.
Here are some of the highlights of what’s to come.
Leasey Q&A: Ask Questions About Your Own Documents
Many people already use Leasey’s specially designed interface to submit prompts and ask questions to ChatGPT. Leasey Version 11 takes this much further by allowing you to upload documents and ask questions directly about their content.
Supported file types include:
- Text documents
- Microsoft Word documents
- PowerPoint presentations
- Excel spreadsheets
- PDF files
- CSV files
Once uploaded, you can ask an initial question and then continue with follow-up questions — all in a completely accessible way. Typical documents of up to around 1,000 pages can be handled quite comfortably.
Examples of how this can be used include:
- Uploading a product manual and asking: “Where is the Play button located?” or “How do I insert the battery?”
- Uploading an Excel workbook and asking for comparisons between worksheets, annual budget summaries, or sales breakdowns.
- Uploading an assessment report and asking: “What are the conclusions and recommendations?”
- Uploading meeting minutes and asking for action items, decisions, or unresolved issues.
- Uploading study material and requesting summaries, explanations, or revision questions.
Instead of manually searching through long documents, Leasey allows you to go straight to the information you need — saving a huge amount of time and effort, especially for screen reader users.
Working with Prompts and ChatGPT
If you’ve spent time working with AI, you’ll already know that the quality of a prompt can make the difference between an average answer and an excellent one.
Leasey Version 11 introduces the ability to save prompts that you regularly use. This is ideal for recurring tasks, research routines, data lookups, or structured requests where consistency matters.
For example, you might save a prompt that retrieves specific sports fixtures in a strict format, or one that pulls historical chart data, financial summaries, or technical information.
Saving prompts means:
- No more rewriting complex instructions.
- Consistent results every time.
- Faster access to workflows you rely on.
With a library of reusable prompts, Leasey becomes not just a way to access AI, but a way to build a personalised productivity system around it.
Leasey Table Capture: A Breakthrough for Working with Tables
Working with tables has always been one of the biggest friction points for screen reader users. Whether it’s a complex web table or a structured report, extracting usable information has often meant slow navigation, unreliable copying, and extensive cleanup.
Leasey Table Capture changes that.
This new feature is designed to make capturing table data faster, more reliable, and dramatically more flexible than traditional copy-and-paste.
Capture exactly what you need — instantly
With Leasey Table Capture, you can quickly capture:
- An entire table or set of tables
- A single cell
- An entire row
- An entire column
- Column headers only
- Row headers only
- A custom selection of individual cells
Each capture is appended to a dedicated Leasey capture buffer, allowing you to collect information from different areas of a table — or even from entirely different tables — and review it all together.
You can also choose how cells are separated, such as by new lines, new paragraphs, or commas, making it easier to move data into documents, spreadsheets, or reports.
Smarter header handling
Not all tables are created equal. Many websites fail to mark up headers properly, causing traditional screen reader methods to break down.
Leasey Table Capture intelligently handles both:
- True structural headers when they exist
- Fallback headers (first row or first column) when they don’t
The result is meaningful, usable headers even on badly coded websites.
A better way to collect information
Instead of fighting with selections, Leasey allows you to:
- Build a running collection of captured table data
- Review it instantly in a virtual viewer
- Copy everything in one step when you’re ready
This makes Table Capture ideal for research, auditing, form filling, data checking, report writing, and any situation where structured information needs to be gathered quickly and accurately.
Music Recognition
If you have a recording of a song — perhaps captured from a radio show or another source — Leasey can now identify it.
Upload the audio sample and Leasey will attempt to determine the title and artist. In many cases, it will also provide links to streaming or purchase options on services such as Spotify and others.
This brings fast, accessible music identification directly into the Leasey environment.
LeaseyCuts: More Reliable Than Ever
Since 2014, LeaseyCuts has allowed users to bring folders and web pages together into a single, unified list for quick navigation and review.
In some situations, JAWS could corrupt stored web addresses over time. The LeaseyCuts system for web pages has now been rebuilt to address this issue and is significantly more robust.
This means greater reliability and confidence that your stored links will continue to work as expected.
Typing Echo Gets an Extra Option
Since the very first version of Leasey, it has been possible to cycle typing echo modes using Insert+2. This controls whether JAWS speaks characters, words, both, or nothing.
Leasey Version 11 adds a new option that suppresses announcements for non-alphanumeric keystrokes. This avoids spoken feedback for keys such as Control, Enter, or Escape when character echo is enabled — offering a quieter, more focused typing experience.
Better Support for Special Social Media Clients
Specialist social media clients for platforms such as Mastodon and Bluesky often use global “invisible interface” keystrokes that work across applications.
Some of these keystrokes have conflicted with Leasey commands. Version 11 introduces an option to use alternative Leasey keystrokes where conflicts occur.
For users of these clients, this frees up keys for social media access. For everyone else, the existing Leasey layout continues to work exactly as it always has.
Podcast OPML Support
For those using Leasey’s podcast interface, subscriptions can now be exported to an OPML file for use in other podcast clients. You can also import OPML files into Leasey, making it easier than ever to move and manage podcast collections.
Conclusion
Leasey Version 11 represents a major step forward — expanding how you interact with AI, introducing powerful new tools like Table Capture, and refining long-standing features to be more reliable, flexible, and user-friendly.
Whether you’re researching, studying, working with data, managing information, or simply exploring what AI can offer, Leasey 11 is designed to remove friction and open new possibilities.
Leasey Version 11 is planned for release in mid-February 2026.
You can pre-order Leasey version 11 here.
We look forward to sharing this next chapter of Leasey with you.