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Luke,

Do you know of any NVDA reference material that presents a comprehensive list of input gestures (preferably where assigned "out of the box" and unassigned is denoted)?

There is not such in the User Guide and, at least for me, it would be so much easier to have a list I could refer to outside of the actual input gestures dialog of NVDA itself and where I'd imagine a bit more narrative about each might be present when such is needed.
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Luke Davis
 

Brian Vogel wrote:

Luke,Do you know of any NVDA reference material that presents a comprehensive list of input gestures (preferably where assigned "out of the box" and
unassigned is denoted)?There is not such in the User Guide and, at least for me, it would be so much easier to have a list I could refer to outside of the
actual input gestures dialog of NVDA itself and where I'd imagine a bit more narrative about each might be present when such is needed.
No, but I agree such would be valuable. I don't know if Quentin is following this conversation, but he is best positioned to comment on why such a thing doesn't exist.

Perhaps file a feature request about this.

Luke


Dave Grossoehme
 

Is there a possibility that the cursor is jumping over the land mark, in which NVDA does not read it. 

Dave


On 6/3/2022 1:21 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

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Gene,

I agree with you.  To my mind, the "Skip to content" link should take you to the opening line of an article, but I've played with it and it doesn't.

There is an interesting combination of articles with "by" lines, which are often absent a city of filing and em dash, articles with city of filing and emdash, and probably the occasional article, or at least the live "ticker" type articles, that have neither.

Why there would not be some sort of landmark (and I mean that broadly, though it could truly use a landmark) to denote the beginning of text content after an article title and byline I do not know.
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Gene
 

Do you mean if you use d?  I don't know if the aria landmark can be improperly coded.  I wouldn't expect that to generally be the case.  If it is coded properly, I wouldn't expect what you are describing to happen. 

Gene

On 6/7/2022 10:20 AM, Dave Grossoehme wrote:

Is there a possibility that the cursor is jumping over the land mark, in which NVDA does not read it. 

Dave


On 6/3/2022 1:21 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

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Gene,

I agree with you.  To my mind, the "Skip to content" link should take you to the opening line of an article, but I've played with it and it doesn't.

There is an interesting combination of articles with "by" lines, which are often absent a city of filing and em dash, articles with city of filing and emdash, and probably the occasional article, or at least the live "ticker" type articles, that have neither.

Why there would not be some sort of landmark (and I mean that broadly, though it could truly use a landmark) to denote the beginning of text content after an article title and byline I do not know.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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Dave Grossoehme
 

Jean if you would search for the use of Aria for accessibility for the blind, you might find your answer.  The reason is W3 Schools, made this tool to translate Java characters into a code that screen readers can read.  I would have to search farther to find the answer of how this action works. 

Dave


On 6/3/2022 5:52 PM, Gene wrote:

I checked again and when filtering by article, all I see is a description that says toggles the reporting of articles, nothing about a move by article command.  Perhaps you know how I might find such a command.

Gene

On 6/3/2022 4:49 PM, Gene via groups.io wrote:
Here is an interesting Github ticket I found about articles.

I'll look at the gestures dialog again to see if I missed something because the ticket indicates you can assign a key to move by heading.

But as the ticket also makes clear, this moves you to the beginning, the title, of an article.  It doesn't move you to the text of the article.
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/11103

Gene

On 6/3/2022 4:38 PM, Gene via groups.io wrote:
I just looked at the user guide and I found nothing about what an article is.  I checked the input gestures dialog and the only thing I found was that I could assign a key to toggle reporting of articles on and off.  I know of no quick navigation command to move by article.  It appears to me that the designation article indicates when you are entering article text.  In short, it appears to do nothing more than I can do using move by heading on a Times page to get to the title or move by landmark to get to the same title when on a page containing an article..

The Times should provide a way to use land marks to move immediately to the text of an article, which often begins about fifteen lines below the title.

If you know of a way to assign a key to move by article, I'd be curious to know. 

Gene
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 05:12 PM, Luke Davis wrote:
I believe the Jump To Next/Previous Article commands are supposed to solve this problem. Have you tried them?
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I'd never heard of these and will be curious to see what Gene has to say if he tries them.  One would have to believe that these commands depend on some sort of fixed marker to determine what constitutes "beginning of article."
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Quentin Christensen
 

I did drop out of this conversation, but just happened to see this message (so please do let me know of anything important earlier I missed!)

As for WHY there isn't a straight list of all commands... We do have "Commands quick reference".  Theoretically this should list pretty much every command.  This information is pulled from the User Guide, so if anything is missing in one, it will be missing in the other.

If anyone is interested in comparing the commands in the commands quick reference with the assigned gestures in the input gestures dialog, I would be happy to be given a list of any discrepancies (either via email or as a GitHub issue.

I don't think there is a collated list of unassigned gestures, but I agree that could be useful and again, if anyone is interested in collating such a list, if you could let me know, it could well be worth adding a table to the User Guide (and thus the commands quick reference) with those.

Kind regards

Quentin.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 9:09 AM Luke Davis <luke@...> wrote:
Brian Vogel wrote:

> Luke,Do you know of any NVDA reference material that presents a comprehensive list of input gestures (preferably where assigned "out of the box" and
> unassigned is denoted)?There is not such in the User Guide and, at least for me, it would be so much easier to have a list I could refer to outside of the
> actual input gestures dialog of NVDA itself and where I'd imagine a bit more narrative about each might be present when such is needed.

No, but I agree such would be valuable. I don't know if Quentin is following
this conversation, but he is best positioned to comment on why such a thing
doesn't exist.

Perhaps file a feature request about this.

Luke







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