Re: Equivalent to Jaw's Screen Echo
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David Goldfield
Thanks for confirming this, Steve. It’s one of those nice to have features but, for me, it is not essential. I occasionally use it for apps which frequently update the screen, such as when I copy a large number of files from one folder to another or when installing a piece of software where I want to automatically hear all of the changes which are taking place. Having all screen changes announced during such events is convenient but, again, not essential, at least for me. With NVDA I can always just use its review cursor to manually review screen updates. For most situations most of the time I never need to rely on it but someone else’s use case might dictate otherwise. For those individuals I would say that filing this as a feature request in NVDA’s Github would be appropriate. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist JAWS Certified, 2019 Subscribe to the Tech-VI announcement list to receive emails regarding news and events in the blindness assistive technology field. Email: tech-vi+subscribe@groups.io
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Steve Nutt
You’re right David, I just tried it. It doesn’t echo anything when first turned on.
All the best
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of
David Goldfield
My only disagreement with Steve’s description is that when you set the JAWS screen echo to “all” it does not automatically speak the contents of the screen. This is not particularly detailed but here is the relevant description taken from the JAWS help system: Screen Echo This option allows you to select what information is echoed when text on the screen changes.
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Steve Nutt
Hi Quentin,
Essentially, it does exactly as described earlier down the thread.
When you enable it, it echoes the whole screen once. Then it monitors for changes and echoes them.
This is very useful for accessibility testing. It’s probably not a mainstream feature that everyone could use, but it would be helpful to have it.
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Quentin Christensen
Perhaps what would be helpful here would be for someone familiar with the Jaws feature, to please describe how it works for the user? Ok, so I'm a user, I have a program which doesn't seem to be accessible, I launch this feature.... what does it do?
With a number of features, it may be that there is a solution to a problem, and it may or may not be identical to the way Jaws does it, and I think sometimes we get stuck on "this is what Jaws does, I want it to work the same", rather than "this is the problem I'm trying to solve, is there a solution"?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 2:42 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:
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