I saw the message before you answered mine.  I didn’t understand the problem before.  I don’t know what is causing the problem.  This won’t solve the problem but it will give you access to a lot of settings in Edge, assuming it does what it does in Chrome.

In the address bar, type about colon settings and press enter.  My e-mail program doesn’t let me type the syntax properly so I wrote out the colon.  Don’t space anywhere in this address.  The settings page will open.  As for how to actually solve the problem and get access to the menu, I don’t know.  Maybe you could uninstall and reinstall it.

Gene

Hi Gene,

I don't know how much  clearer I can make it. Apparently, I may be the only one having this issue.  As stated in a previous message.  I launch Edge.  I press alt by itself.  I Press alt + F.  I press alt + S.  Nothing happens.  I used to get some new page of settings load with either just the alt Key or the alt + F key.  Now nothing happens.

I’m not sure what the problem is that is being described, but this is evidently a change where what used to work in Edge no longer does. 

 

In Chrome, just pressing alt doesn’t open the menu.  If you hold alt and type f, the menu opens.  But I don’t think this is the problem being discussed, though I’m not sure what is being described that used to work.

 

Gene

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

From: JM Casey

Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:23 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] Alt Keys In Edge Not Working For Menu Access

 

Alt key alone doesn't work in a lot of modern probgrammes including, I think, chrome...modern programmes do not really have a "menu bar" as such so the alt key by itself does nothing, rather than take you there as it does in old windows programmes  that have the traditional bar at the top of the window.



-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io On Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio
Sent: April 15, 2020 7:55 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Alt Keys In Edge Not Working For Menu Access

Have you tried, for instance, Alt+plus a letter? The same thing happens with me in latest Edge, where the alt key alone doesn’t work. Hope this helps some.

Gera
Enviado desde mi iPhone SE de Telcel

> El 14 abr 2020, a la(s) 9:45 p.m., Ron Canazzi mailto:aa2vm@... escribió:
>
> Hi Group,
>
> I have alluded to this topic in the topic about Edge and PDF files. I thought I would create a new topic so as to get focus more on it. I confess I should have done this a few hours earlier; sorry for the confusion.
>
> In any case, when I went to test Sascha's issue with PDF in Edge VS Acrobat Reader, I found that in the latest version of Edge, that the hotkeys involving with activating menus such as home, settings and such, the hotkeys simply don't work.  I have to use the tab key to move to the tool bar and then activate the buttons with space bar. Oddly enough, when I highlight these buttons, I hear NVDA say: 'settings and more alt + S' and home alt + h.'
>
> Has anyone else noticed this in latest version of Edge?
>
>
> --
> They Ask Me If I'm Happy; I say Yes.
> They ask: "How Happy are You?"
> I Say: "I'm as happy as a stow away chimpanzee on a banana boat!"
>
>
>
>

-- 

They Ask Me If I'm Happy; I say Yes.

They ask: "How Happy are You?"

I Say: "I'm as happy as a stow away chimpanzee on a banana boat!"