Hi everyone, I thought I should pop up and say "Hi". I joined this group just in case anyone needs help or wants me to find out anything "official" from NV Access on anything here (or a personal comme

Hi everyone, I had some time off over Easter and then a few other things so I've been a way from the groups for a week or so. Just spent a good part of the day going through and catching up on everyth

I know, it doesn't take long to fall behind! (Sorry, one more now, I'll keep it to one line so it doesn't take too long!)

I posted a very long and eloquent post on the add-ons thread in the NVDA group before encountering a message saying the thread was closed in a later post which wasn't on the thread.... (so yes, it hap

Oh indeed, most of what you do could likely be done by the average user if they took the time to look and learn a little bit. I don't drive, but I wonder how much of your average car service a regular

I think what (original) Brian was saying was that due to the thread being locked in the NVDA group, the posts he wrote and sent after that time to that thread were rejected - I wrote one as well befor

Hi David, Are you trying to use track changes or compare documents? Track changes is where say you send me a document, I turn track changes on, make any edits I think are appropriate and send it back

The other non-technical part of this, is to ensure that you actually WANT to open the file in the first place. The reason Word blocks the file to begin with is that it has either been downloaded, or c

Hi Charles, From: https://codefactoryglobal.com/app-store/voices-for-nvda/ "How can I purchase the software?Please download and install and select the “Buy now” option inside the app to purchase your

Could you have accidentally pressed WINDOWS+SPACEBAR? That combination cycles through whatever keyboard layouts you have installed. I always notice I've done that when I go to type " on my US layout k

(Unrelated to the thread in the other group about Gmail and Outlook, and unrelated to NVDA as well, except it would make my testing of various clients easier, I was just hoping someone might know) The

It will come up as protected as it is a Word file that you have downloaded. Word does that to protect you from malicious files that you might accidentally download. I'd be curious to hear from anyone

I don't have a solution offhand, but if you send me a debug log I can have a look: Please send it attached to an email to info@.... Include a description of what you have done and what isn't

We cover it in the Basic Training for NVDA module and in more depth in the Microsoft Word for NVDA training module. In short, Press ALT to go to the ribbon, use the left and right arrow keys to select

Hi Louis, Firstly thank you for your support, we really appreciate it! I'm catching up on messages after leave so this was awhile ago - have you tried since then and if so have you had any more succes

I was told way back in the dark ages when I first heard them, that it was for brevity: tick is quicker for a screen reader to say than apostrophe bang is quicker than exclamation mark I've never heard

It's amazing how much of modern PCs has such historical roots. I'd known for a long time that the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow down fast typists so that they wouldn't jam manual typewriters. W

Hi Steve, I haven't looked at it myself. All I can tell you is that I don't have any correspondence about "chessbase" and I can't see it mentioned in the user group or in our GitHub issues. If the per

ok well, if it works with Jaws, do you know if there is a Jaws script for it, or does Jaws work with it out of the box? Have you tried it with NVDA? If it works out of the box with Jaws, it may well w

Also, when asking about a piece of software, if you could provide a link to it, that always helps. Searching for SDL Trados finds https://www.sdltrados.com/ as the first result, so I assume that's the