Hi guys,
For anyone like me who has noticed the text lag and wonders why. The
following came from Tyler Spivey, who helped me resolve this strange
conundrum.
It actually appears that NVDA has always had some reason or other to have
to wait a predetermined amount of time for the cursor to move in order to read
whatever new information is under the cursor, or to inform of highlighted text,
or if no change has occurred, to state the fact that we are at the beginning or
end of the field. Until 2017.3, this was 30 milliseconds, a time so short that
you would hardly notice it.
An entry in the change log for 2017.3 reads:
• In editable text, when moving the caret (e.g. with the cursor keys or
backspace), NVDA's spoken feedback is now more accurate in many cases,
particularly in Chrome and terminal applications.
In fact, one of the ways this seems to have been resolved was to increase
the cursor wait time from 30 to 100 milliseconds, which may not seem much but is
in fact a 230% increase. This means that people who are well tuned in to how
NVDA read data previously, and perhaps more importantly rely on speed, will
notice this change.
This is all
apparently covered on GitHub, which, as far as I’m concerned isn’t really a
user-friendly platform (that’s to say it’s meant for developers, and expert ones
at that, which means you’re going to see a lot of technical jargon). Some may
argue that this issue is a very fine line between a development technicality and
usability, and since I seem to have been the only one who cared or even noticed
this, I’m inclined to agree. But at least it’s out there now.
So, to
summarise:
1. This is
actually intended behaviour.
2. You can
change it, but you have to know how and where it’s stored. It’s not in the
configuration dialogs. Some may not even find it worth the effort – I only did
because it ground straight through my sensitive teeth and pounded through my
skull.
3.
If you change it, be aware that you may not get the improved accuracy stated in
the change log entry quoted above.
