I haven't checked. I'm not sure whether it is
a good idea. others may have comments. Sometimes just moving the
mouse may cause things to occur that you may not want. But I haven't
experimented with this enough to know if it would cause inconveniences or
problems often enough to worry about.
Gene
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Golden Cursor question
So basically you use the Review cursor to navigate the screen. Then when you
land on a spot which you want to click, you route the mouse pointer to that
review cursor position [NVDA]+[Slash] and then hit [Slash] to left mouse click
on it?
Is there an option that will automatically tether the
mouse pointer to the review cursor, so I only need press [Slash] to click on an
element, without having to route to it first?
On 2/18/2019 12:00 PM, Gene wrote:
In the following response, I shall
give desktop layout commands. I don't use the laptop layout and don't
know those commands for what we are discussing.
There aren't specifically mouse
movement keys such as in JAWS. Read the review section of the manual or
the relevant parts. 5.5 is a relevant section. I'm not sure if
there are any others. You will see such commands as num[pad 9, move to
next line, numpad 8, read current line, numpad 7 move to and read previous
line. These are review keys and don't affect the application, they
review the screen. I'm talking about what they do in screen review
mode. They have similar functions when in object navigation but they
apply to the object that has focus.
To move the mouse to the review
position, use the command numpad insert numpad slash. To left click the
mouse, use numpad slash. To right click, use numpad Times, which I
believe is also the asterisk. It's immediately to the right of numpad
slash.
If you can't find how to do
something in NVDA, it is not good methodology or procedure to assume that it
can't be done. Asking here may provide information about how to do it or
of an add-on that does.
Gene
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Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Golden Cursor question
Hello Jean,
So what are the mouse movement keys via the keyboard
then? I’m sorry I can’t find them.
Thanks.
All the best
Steve
You
can move the mouse with the keyboard now. You can't move it as
precisely. I don't have an opinion about whether the Golden Cursor
features should be incorporated into the source code. But your
implication that the mouse can't be moved without the Golden Cursor is not
correct.
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Monday, February 18, 2019 2:27 AM
Subject:
Re: [nvda] Golden Cursor question
Jean,
I think the whole Golden Cursor thing should be in NVDA to
be honest. The ability to move the mouse using the keyboard has been in
screen readers, since the invention of Windows.
Supernova has it, System Access has it, JAWS has it,
Window-Eyes was best at it, and so on.
All the best
Steve
The
search feature should, I think, be in NVDA, not in the Golden
Cursor. This is important funcionality and is too important to depend on
a user downloading an add-on to have it available.
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Sent:
Sunday, February 17, 2019 1:58 PM
Subject:
[nvda] Golden Cursor question
Hi,
In my efforts to find out if Golden Cursor is as good as
the mouse with JAWS, I’d say not quite. Let me explain.
I just downloaded it, and there seems to be no way to
search for a string of text within GC and have the mouse land on that text, so
you can just click it, without routing, saving positions, etc.
Could this possibly be added? A Mouse Search in
NVDA? I use Search in JAWS cursor all the time, and it moves the mouse
to where I want it.
Or am I really stupid and missing it?
Someone suggested that GC does more than the JAWS cursor,
but I don’t really see that.
All the best
Steve
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