Re: Only speak pressed keyboard characters and nothing else
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Gene
Simply press control to stop the
announcement. Control stops speech. Or take some other action such
as down arrowing or whatever you want to do on the site. You don't have to
wait for speech to stop. Screen-readers are designed to stop old speech
and speak what you currently are doing.
Similarly, when up or down arrowing in a document,
as an example, if a line is being read, when you up or down arrow or move in
other ways or type a letter, old speech will stop and the new line you have
moved to will be read. Or is you move the cursor to the next letter or
word, it will be spoken.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Yair pc
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Only speak pressed keyboard characters and
nothing else Thanks Gene, I'm indeed looking for it to announce the letters without
announcing windows, but I do need the letters to still type normally.
It's not easy to get used to the window announcements because it sometimes
mean a very long annoucement (i.e. the title of the Chrome browser, is the
title of the website, and such title can be a minute long). For someone who can
still partially see, this is too much so that screen reader is rejected,
although some other announcements can still be very helpful.
Maybe there is a solution for the too long window title
announcements instead? (Can anounce just a short prefix of it, or an
extension can tell the browser to crop the title...)
Regarding my original question, I understand that removing window
announcement is not right for everyone, but as the eyesight degrades, I think
this is a good first step to getting used to announcements in a small dose (just
typed letters for now).
Thanks,
Yair
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016
at 8:18 PM
From: Gene <gsasner@...> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Only speak pressed keyboard characters and nothing else It isn't clear what you want. Do you want the
computer to continue to work with commands or type when you are in a word
processor, but just announce letters and nothing such as what window you are in
if you move from window to window? There is nothing like that and it would
be very difficult for people with a number of windows opened to function if the
window you move to isn't announced.
NVDA does have a feature that will announce what
keys are if you press them but the keys won't do anything. This is to
allow people to famaliarize themselves with commands and look for commands
without the computer taking any actions. It also announces letters and
numbers and some other things.
The command is NVDA key 1 that is 1 on the main
keyboard.
You can turn this command on and hold the insert
key and press various functionkeys as well, such as f1, f2, etc. to see what
they do.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Yair pc
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 10:51 AM
Subject: [nvda] Only speak pressed keyboard characters and nothing
else I'm looking for a way to make every key press in the keyboard speek
(report/announce/echo) the letter name.
This seems like a good start to accomodate to screen readers noise, I
will add other announcements later on.
Is there a way to disable all other announcements in NVDA (i.e. not hear
the titles of the focued window etc.)
I tried to de-select everything but the character speeking but there
is till a lot of speeking when changing focus.
I tried Windows Narrator too but had the same issue.
This is a very simply feature, even useful for people learning to
touch type, there must be some utility that offers just that for Windows (even
if not using NVDA)...
Thanks,
Yair
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