I've only tried Via Voice, which I believe, does more or less what you want. Eloquence should as well.  Many others may.

Gene
-----Original Message----- From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 3:24 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] firefox and waterfox issues.

Hmmm what synth do you suggest I try.

I do like espeak for what it is.

Technically I guess I could add a dictionary entry, but I really want to
add a context sensitive one.



On 26/09/2020 7:52 pm, Gene wrote:

If you try different synthesizers, you may find something more or less like what you are looking for.

Gene
-----Original Message----- From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 2:50 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] firefox and waterfox issues.

Hi jean, what I really want is for something to read the prices with the
points in even if they use the coma, but I suppose thats not an option.

I know in math some write with coma instead of the standard full stop
for a decimal to denote large numbers.

The issue is not how its written but that nvda doesn't recognise this in
the way its handled as anything bar a coma in this case its actually a
decimal.



On 26/09/2020 6:43 pm, Gene wrote:

I don't know what accounts for the difference in how it is read.  but you may be able to work around the problem by setting punctuation to all. then you will have the annoyance of hearing all sorts of punctuation but it may be preferable to hearing numbers misread.

Or you can change the reading of commas to the most or some level.  That way, you will hear them spoken without hearing a lot of other punctuation.

Gene
-----Original Message----- From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 1:09 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] firefox and waterfox issues.

ok, in firefox, something which is say 140 dollars and 21 cents is
140.21

This is fine, in some places on the net they use the coma and not the
full stop char.

now 140,21 in waterfox/firefox is read out as you would expect.

in chrome its 14021.

So I have often found things costing 500000 or something rediculous when
they can be 50.00 or 500.00.

This seems to be a bit of an issue.

Now granted its only 1 site, but its a site I use a lot.

I am not sure if there is a plugin to treat in certain cases the coma
being used as a deciman point where numbers are concerned being
converted to a point.

Of course it goes without saying that this is only on displayed items.

When you buy one its converted normally, go figure.

Its my only gripe with chromium brousers.

To be honest, what I may have to do, is run each group of sites in its
own session, followed by forums that have trouble in a multitabbed
environment.

Thats fine but to be honest, even if this doesn't work, I have had to
turn off hardware exceleration, and autoupdates just to get things not
to crash.

If things continue to crash, I will try turning off image auto load and
finally javascript but its getting to the point that I may have to
abandon the entire mozilla family.

I'd really like a brouser I can use with a no frill interface.

That is, something that just brouses, has things like ublock, secured
https, maybe a privacy manager and sound, or if I can't have that,
something like internet explorer but not be internet explorer.

I do like youtube videos so it would need to process some of these
streaming things but heck, if I had a simple brouser to brouse the net
and something else for other things, I am willing to take it.



On 26/09/2020 5:53 pm, Gene wrote:

I don't understand your point about how dollar amountsare read.  They are read as I expect and the way differs when I use different symthesizers. Via Voice reads them correctly.  E-Speak reads them incorrectly whatever browser I use.

Gene
-----Original Message----- From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 12:37 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] firefox and waterfox issues.

Hmph.

Well, I am really close to swearing now reading what you just told me.

I have done a little more, adding waterfox to ccleaner and turning off
hardware exceleration.

I have also turned off container tabs and autoupdates but at this point
I am pritty close to bailing.

As for google, my issue is, well go to www.pbtech.co.nz and look at how
the prices for things are set.

Look how chromium based brousers say them, look at how waterfox/ firefox
say them.

Now you will understand why I don't care about leaving waterfox or whatever.

Is there such a thing as a brouser with a classic interface I can use or
do I have to soldier on with what I have.

I can do it, I guess but really its really bad.

I could refresh my profile but back a couple versions ago and I just
tried things do spike but not like this.

This is not the medium I really want.



On 26/09/2020 4:17 pm, Hareth wrote:

Same here, Firefox went to the worse it could get.
opening a facebook page became a crash nightmare with it.
About the chrome navigating history entries, Man if that's not one of
the biggest NVDA and crome accessibility shortcomings.
I have to quit NVDA, start JAWS, open the jaws find feature and put
"yes" for yesterday ETC, in the edit field and it finds the entries
there pretty well.
I couldn't make NVDA do the same .
On 9/26/20, Gene <gsasner@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course, it may be something else. I don't have the technical knowledge
to do more than guess.

Aside from that, I don't see anything cluttered about the Chrome interface.

Browsing is browsing when you are using Browse mode or the Virtual PC
Cursor, different names for the same thing.  The interface is different but

the only place where I find that an annoyance is when working with history.

and I still haven't found a way to go back more than about a day in Chrome
history.  I wonder if there is some sort of inaccessible scroll icon.

Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 9:22 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] firefox and waterfox issues.

Yeah, its starting to become a thing I am jumping towards to.
Since firefox and waterfox share some features well that makes sence.
I have downgraded to 2020.8.1, but even in the 08x series the system
has been running hot with the brouser active so there could be a leak
going on.
I like classic waterfox because of its uncluttered nature, but if the
makers of this thing refuse to acknowledge that its a problem on their
end, then I am going to have to abandon noscript 5, and try to use
chrome, edge, brave or something.
I'd ideally like a firefox like classic brouser.
What I may have to do is switch back and fforth.
Right now I am running an older waterfox classic which does what I
need it to do but yeah, I am starting to get that to.
Its random, sometimes its fine then sometimes its not.
It can happen quickly or it can well happen later on and randomly.
Taking into account that I have at least 1 site I use for work which
is known to be slow and a lot slower now because it just is who knows.
Its only happening if I load several things in the same tab, any new
tabs are not effected.
At first I thought it was java or  malware but its getting to crazy
now, worse its even happening on sites like blogspot where I don't
allow any scripts to execute.
I'll give those at waterfox/firefox a little more time to do something
about this but if not I am going to have to switch to chrome for my
day to day work.
Now chrome aint a bad brouser but I like a classic and uncluttered
interface.
Bar the addons from electronic frontier, privacy, badger, and https
everywhere, as well as ublock, the only addon I need is the old
navigation sounds and accessible noscript addon and heck I probably
could do without that but I like control.
Point is I can't go on like this.
I have allready done a hardreset on my ram modules after a firmware
update caused some issues, and while that has sorted out some stuff,
when this goes it turns nvda into junk.
Mostly narator will come up file and closing the program works fine
but the last time this happened this morning it took out part of nvda
keyboard and I had to reboot nvda manually and then restart windows.
I have struggled through this for the last 3 days now since the update
and am just about through.

On 26/09/2020, Gene <gsasner@gmail.com> wrote:

It sounds like a memory leak problem.

Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Everiss
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 7:58 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] firefox and waterfox issues.

Hi all.

There is an issue on github of both waterfox and nvda about how the
brouser is really flakey in the latest version.

Aparently firefox has the same issues, at first I thought it was just a
couple sites, but now I can be brousing along and it may be blogspot,
github, another site, and things will become unresponsive.

I thought I'd fixed it this morning but no I hadn't.

If you open sites each in a new tab things do not crash but eventually
if you open things in the same window things will crash and become
unresponsive.

This never happened on the previous waterfox version but if its
happening in firefox as well as waterfox classic then there is a problem.

I like classic waterfox for what it is but if its going to do this sort
of thing I may have to use chrome and hope it doesn't do this.

I don't like what chrome does to some number conversions in sites like
pbtech.co.nz as they don't read decimals right because how the numbers
and such on the site are done but well things just seem to be well doing
bad things right now.

Interested to get to the bottem of this.

thanks.

Shaun.