I don’t know about Chrome, it may be something new since I never saw it when I looked at settings up to about a month ago.  But for Firefox, if this setting were on, you wouldn’t see anything with a screen-reader except the title bar.  Even pressing alt to open the menus would show nothing.  And the setting is off, as it should be, by default. This is definitely not the probllem in Firefox.  And I'm extremely doubtful that it is the problem in Chrome, as I would expect the setting to allow accessibility devices to work with Chrome by default. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Ron Canazzi

Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 8:25 AM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] Serious issue with NVDA not reading menus and totally silent in Firefox and Chrome

 

Hi Mallard,

For both Firefox and Chrome, there is a checkbox under settings that
says: "prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser." This
should be unchecked. I thought it would be unchecked by default, but
apparently, your friend's system had this item checked by default.  This
would in effect render Firefox and Chrome inaccessible and useless to
screen readers.

The easiest way to undo this damage is to have sighted help.  It's a
simple matter of clicking tools, options, and unchecking this checkbox.

Lacking that, I believe there is something you can type at the command
prompt from the edit box for search/addresses. You would have to do this
all in the blind, so it wouldn't be easy.  I will look for the proper
things to  type in the blind, but as of now, I seem to have misplaced
the information.
Maybe someone else on list will have that information.


On 3/18/2020 6:53 AM, Mallard wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> A friend of mine recently bought a HP laptop.
>
>
> She experiences some really weird behaviours with NVDA.
>
>
> When the Start key is pressed, no menu is read.
>
> But that can be bypassed by using the Start button on the bar.
>
>
> The main issue is that both Firefox and Chrome aer unreadable, and
> I-ve never seen anything like that in my life.
>
>
> I tried to help her via Teamviewer, as she lives in a different town,
> and I was shocked.
>
>
> How is it possible that NVDA doesn-t read browsers like that_
>
>
> I-m not a techie at all, so have no idea of what to do and how to help
> her.
>
>
> she-s a teacher and, with the Covid/19 lockdown active here in Italy,
> she needs to teach online. Not easy under these conditions.
>
>
> any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Ciao,
>
> Ollie
>
>
>
>
>

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