Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Gene New Zealand <hurrikennyandopo@...>
hi
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You will need to change into object navigation mode with the nvda key + one on the numeric keypad then do the following. Use the ctrl key + letter L so it throws the focus to the location bar. Then use object navigation to get to those areas as below. Actually a easier way is to use the nvda key + number 8 on the numeric key pad to go up a level, then use the nvda key + 6 on the numeric keypad to you get to the same area. . Gene nz
On 4/06/2017 4:15 PM, Gene New Zealand wrote:
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Check out my website for NVDA tutorials and other blindness related material at
http://www.accessibilitycentral.net Regardless of where you are in New Zealand if you are near one of the APNK sites you can use a copy of the NVDA screen reader on one of their computers.
To find out which locations (or location) is near to you please visit
http://www.aotearoapeoplesnetwork.org/content/partner-libraries (Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa). To find an NVDA certified expert near you, please visit the following link
https://certification.nvaccess.org/. The certification page contains the official list of NVDA certified individuals from around the world, who have sat and successfully passed the NVDA
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Gene New Zealand <hurrikennyandopo@...>
Hi
which ones are those?
is it the one with the pocket list etc? are they refered to as buttons for each one?
if it is those ones to get up there i can use the ctrl + letter L to get to the location bar where the web address is. If you tabbed once it will put you in the search engine part.
But when you are on the location bar the one i can get to them is use object navigation. on the desktop i use the nvda key + number 6 on the numeric keypad until it tell me there is no next and you should hear reload current page, there will be no further you can go. next for some reason use the nvda key + number 2 on the numeric keypad, then go back up with nvda key + number 8 on the numeric keypad. Next use the nvda key + 6 on the numeric key pad and it will give you other options. Mine i can get to pocket and a few others and they refer to them as buttons. I did not try to interact with the buttons but either the nvda key + enter key on the numeric keypad should do it. Not sure if the space bar or enter key would but the one mentioned with the nvda key + enter key should.
I know also there is some shortcuts but not sure if there is for that area.
Gene nz will.
You might even be able to use the mouse and move it around and hear what is spoken under it. make sure mouse tracking is on.
On 4/06/2017 9:14 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:
If anyone happens to know how to directly gain access to the "button bar" to the right of the web address entry and search entry boxes in Firefox would you please share? --
Check out my website for NVDA tutorials and other blindness related material at
http://www.accessibilitycentral.net Regardless of where you are in New Zealand if you are near one of the APNK sites you can use a copy of the NVDA screen reader on one of their computers.
To find out which locations (or location) is near to you please visit
http://www.aotearoapeoplesnetwork.org/content/partner-libraries (Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa). To find an NVDA certified expert near you, please visit the following link
https://certification.nvaccess.org/. The certification page contains the official list of NVDA certified individuals from around the world, who have sat and successfully passed the NVDA
expert exam.
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Re: latest Skype update
what if you run skype classic?
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Its clear skype app like most universal apps suck. I had this with something on another computer, do a system restore or reformat thats what I did and it was ok again. Its really bad that you can click things and not go back. But a good reinstall will fix it, I wish ms made uwp as accessible as they say, but guess not, thank god for reformats. This still gets my goat, it really does. So far I have managed to not use uwp unless I need to then I stay far away just like narator.
On 4/06/2017 8:46 a.m., Jenni Kent wrote:
So I was encouraged by my computer to try the new Skype well now i can't go back to the classic Skype it seems and it would also seem that the new version is a mess for accessibility in my humble opinion has anyone used this new version of Skype successfully and what are your thoughts and tips? Also i still use jaws on occasion to help a friend who refuses to give up on it no idea why but i was that way once too so i cant say anything. but i will try checking in with others as well maybe the add on list who knows who might have a clue or if anything how can i roll back to classic oh and good news the feedback hub works with nvda unlike jaws. just saying can anyone help me with my problem?
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Dan Beaver
Yes, I do now. ;-))
Dan Beaver
On 6/3/2017 9:17 PM, Gene wrote:
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Gene
But do you understand that you are opening history
and then moving left into the opened view menu? You would see exactly the
same things if you went to the view menu and started down arrowing. I'm
going into this because it may help you work with Windows and Windows programs
better if you understand the structure of menus better.
Gene
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From: Dan Beaver
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Accessing the menu bar on
Firefox Yep, I wasn't saying that I was opening menus by cursoring to the
left. I was just saying that pressing alt+s and then cursoring left shows
those 2 submenus. Like I said, this may just show how little I know about the buttons he is looking for. Dan Beaver On 6/3/2017 7:12 PM, Gene wrote:
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Re: How NVDA works: feature development
Jessica D <jldail13@...>
Hi, Could you talk about why NVDA uses eSpeak, when you first install it, as well as other voice options? Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 2, 2017, at 2:22 AM, Quentin Christensen <quentin@...> wrote:
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NVDACon 2017: two more session recordings posted
Hi everyone,
The next set of recordings are now available from NVDACon 2017:
Enjoy. Cheers, Joseph
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Re: How NVDA works: feature development
Joseph, Devin,
Thanks for the correction.
Pranav
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Dan Beaver
Yep, I wasn't saying that I was opening menus by cursoring to
the left. I was just saying that pressing alt+s and then
cursoring left shows those 2 submenus.
Like I said, this may just show how little I know about the buttons he is looking for.
Dan Beaver
On 6/3/2017 7:12 PM, Gene wrote:
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Re: It's getting worse!
Roger Stewart
Thanks. Will give it a try. Don't want to globally disable reading of dynamic content changes as this would kill reading of DOS boxes and possibly ChatZilla.
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Thanks. Roger
On 6/3/2017 6:58 PM, Tyler Spivey wrote:
Install this. It'll disable NVDA's built-in text reading for mIRC. You might be able to do it with a profile, also, by disabling dynamic content changes.
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Re: It's getting worse!
Tyler Spivey
Install this. It'll disable NVDA's built-in text reading for mIRC. You might be able to do it with a profile, also, by disabling dynamic content changes.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/ywezcf4gv5hhaot/mircDisabler-0.1.nvda-addon?dl=1
On 6/3/2017 4:48 PM, Roger Stewart wrote:
This would be great. Think I tried it a while ago, and it disabled nvda
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Re: It's getting worse!
Roger Stewart
This would be great. Think I tried it a while ago, and it disabled nvda speech globally. I need a way to set a configuration profile for mIRC with nvda speech set to off but leave it on for everything else. Then I could turn on the speech in mIRC. Tomorrow night, I'll be trying ChatZilla for the first time with this new nvda. Hope it works as it should.
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Roger
On 6/3/2017 6:34 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
doesn't NVDA-S allow you to adjust the speech seetings? You can always turn it off for mirc, then use the speech on mirc. I don't know if there's a way to save the settings and have them load every time, but I believe there is, though I've never attempted it, so can't say for sure.
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Re: It's getting worse!
Travis Siegel <tsiegel@...>
doesn't NVDA-S allow you to adjust the speech seetings? You can always turn it off for mirc, then use the speech on mirc. I don't know if there's a way to save the settings and have them load every time, but I believe there is, though I've never attempted it, so can't say for sure.
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On 6/3/2017 7:12 PM, Roger Stewart wrote:
About latest nvda and mIRC, the problem is even worse tonight. It now will just read several older lines of text at random instead of just 2. This has made using mIRC unusable with nvda. I would suggest removing mIRC support from nvda as mIRC has a built in speech function. If I could kill nvda speech in mIRC but not anywhere else but keep it running for everything else, this would be great! Then I could just turn on speech for mIRC and it would talk that way. I'd much prefer to have nvda speak, but this function has been totally been broken with this last update. Hope they get it fixed soon.
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Gene
You never open anything such as a submenu by moving
to the left in a menu structure. What you are doing is opening history
with alt s, then left arrowing once to move left one menu, to the view
menu. Since you are already in an opened menu, history, when you move
left, you are moving to the menu to the left and you are in the menu, not at the
menu because you got there from an already opened menu. If you were on the
menu bar, just pressing alt places you there, and you moved with left and
right arrows, you would hear the names of the closed menus announced. If
you are in an opened menu and move to another menu, you won't hear the name of
the menu announced.
If you open the menus with alt, right arrow to the
view menu, and start down arrowing, you will see the same things. Also,
alt v places you in the view menu. do you understand how to hear short cut
commands for opening various menus when you press alt and then right or left
arrow from menu to menu? You can open a submenu when you are in a menu by
right arrowing or pressing enter on the submenu. But as I said, moving
left never opens anything. It will move you to the next menu to the left
that is not a submenu.
I don't know if going into all this is helpful but
it may help you move through menus more efficiently and understand how to look
through menus more systematically and know better where you are.
Gene
----- Original Message -----From: Dan Beaver
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Accessing the menu bar on
Firefox
Hi, I don't know if this is what you are after or not but see what you think. When in Firefox on a webpage I can press alt-s and then cursor left once and I hear "toolbar submenu" and then if I cursor down once I hear "sidebar submenu". These submenus have a few choices each. Is this what you are looking for? If not then it just shows how little I know about this. ;-)) Dan Beaver On 6/3/2017 5:14 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
If anyone happens to know how to directly gain access to the "button bar" to the right of the web address entry and search entry boxes in Firefox would you please share?
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It's getting worse!
Roger Stewart
About latest nvda and mIRC, the problem is even worse tonight. It now will just read several older lines of text at random instead of just 2. This has made using mIRC unusable with nvda. I would suggest removing mIRC support from nvda as mIRC has a built in speech function. If I could kill nvda speech in mIRC but not anywhere else but keep it running for everything else, this would be great! Then I could just turn on speech for mIRC and it would talk that way. I'd much prefer to have nvda speak, but this function has been totally been broken with this last update. Hope they get it fixed soon.
Roger
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Gene
You may be able to do so with object
navigation. I'm not sure how convenient it is to work with such
buttons. Try using the command NVDA key b and see if it reads the buttons
as it goes through and reads just about all the objects on screen.
Sometimes, I find that this command doesn't read everything and other times, I
find that I come across things by doing so I missed otherwise. Whether
that is because I missed something in examining all the child objects on screen
or because of some other anomaly, I'm not sure. But if you issue this
command, then stop reading with control if you hear the buttons being read, the
object navigator will probably be on one of the buttons and you can try moving
around.
I've seen buttons for some Firefox features in that
way such as the chat feature Firefox has, I don't remember its
name.
Gene
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From: Brian Vogel
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2017 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Accessing the menu bar on
Firefox I know that you can get to any of the add-ons that display buttons here via the methods I and others have discussed, but I cannot come up with a way to get to those buttons. In Chrome, since there is no real menu set at all in the conventional sense, hitting Alt throws focus to the Menu Button on the far right and you can left arrow your way backward across all the buttons between it and the web address entry box. I cannot seem to throw focus up there for Firefox and I'm convinced there must be a way I just don't know about. Under Firefox hitting Alt brings up the good, old-fashioned menu bar and throws focus on it. I can't even manage to tab my way in to that collection of buttons under Firefox. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1703, Build 15063.332 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
Dan Beaver
Hi,
I don't know if this is what you are after or not but see what you think.
When in Firefox on a webpage I can press alt-s and then cursor left once and I hear "toolbar submenu" and then if I cursor down once I hear "sidebar submenu". These submenus have a few choices each.
Is this what you are looking for?
If not then it just shows how little I know about this. ;-))
Dan Beaver
On 6/3/2017 5:14 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
If anyone happens to know how to directly gain access to the "button bar" to the right of the web address entry and search entry boxes in Firefox would you please share?
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Re: latest Skype update
David Moore
Hi! I have exactly the same problem. JAWS or NVDA does not seem to access the new Skype nearly as well. I would love to switch back as well. Also, is the New Skype the same Skype as the win10 Skype app, or is it something else. I wasn’t even sure about that. Have a great one, guys! Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Jenni Kent
Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2017 4:46 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] latest Skype update
So I was encouraged by my computer to try the new Skype well now i can't go back to the classic Skype it seems and it would also seem that the new version is a mess for accessibility in my humble opinion has anyone used this new version of Skype successfully and what are your thoughts and tips? Also i still use jaws on occasion to help a friend who refuses to give up on it no idea why but i was that way once too so i cant say anything. but i will try checking in with others as well maybe the add on list who knows who might have a clue or if anything how can i roll back to classic oh and good news the feedback hub works with nvda unlike jaws. just saying can anyone help me with my problem?
Thanks, awaiting the ding for email on my phone,
Jenni
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Re: Accessing the menu bar on Firefox
If anyone happens to know how to directly gain access to the "button bar" to the right of the web address entry and search entry boxes in Firefox would you please share?
I know that you can get to any of the add-ons that display buttons here via the methods I and others have discussed, but I cannot come up with a way to get to those buttons. In Chrome, since there is no real menu set at all in the conventional sense, hitting Alt throws focus to the Menu Button on the far right and you can left arrow your way backward across all the buttons between it and the web address entry box. I cannot seem to throw focus up there for Firefox and I'm convinced there must be a way I just don't know about. Under Firefox hitting Alt brings up the good, old-fashioned menu bar and throws focus on it. I can't even manage to tab my way in to that collection of buttons under Firefox. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1703, Build 15063.332 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr
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Re: latest Skype update
Chris
Hello
I don’t know if its still the same but a while ago I just simply uninstalled the skype app and stuck with the desktop version ever since and the app has never returned since
But as far as I can remember both both should run together with no issue or it did do
Sorry if that is not much help
Good luck
From: Jenni Kent
Sent: 03 June 2017 21:46 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] latest Skype update
So I was encouraged by my computer to try the new Skype well now i can't go back to the classic Skype it seems and it would also seem that the new version is a mess for accessibility in my humble opinion has anyone used this new version of Skype successfully and what are your thoughts and tips? Also i still use jaws on occasion to help a friend who refuses to give up on it no idea why but i was that way once too so i cant say anything. but i will try checking in with others as well maybe the add on list who knows who might have a clue or if anything how can i roll back to classic oh and good news the feedback hub works with nvda unlike jaws. just saying can anyone help me with my problem?
Thanks, awaiting the ding for email on my phone,
Jenni
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