Hi travis


I just read the tutorial on Winrar that you wrote in the email. I will
add a link to your html page from off my website to that tutorial but
will also save the contents into a doc file from the email. Yes any
thing written by any one else i always ask them to put there names to
the tutorial they wrote. Is your name on the html version down the
bottom? I would have to check otherwise i can add it onto the page which
it links from.


I would have to check again but was there a link in the tutorial to
where you could get Winrar from? if not I can add one in on the linking
page.


it will be linked off the nvda tutorial for other programs page.


Thanks Gene NZ



On 18/08/2017 15:16, Travis Siegel wrote:

I've mentioned winrar on this list before, but I've also seen posts in
the past where folks claimed winrar wasn't accessible, so here's an
article I wrote to explain how to use winrar with NVDA. There is an
html version located at http://www.softcon.com/files/winrar.html

and the text version is pasted in below.

Hope folks find it useful.


Using NVDA with winrar

Winrar is a completely accessible file archiver similar to winzip or
7zip, created by rarlabs
(http://www.rarlab.com). The difference is that it not only handles
rar archives, but it can be used as a
general file explorer program, too, and that is what this article will
focus on.
When you launch winrar, you are presented with a general file view
similar to windows explorer. By
default though, winrar offers more information than windows explorer
does, and this is primarily the
reason I like it. I know explorer can be adjusted to show more
information, and winrar can also be
adjusted to show less information as well by unchecking details in the
settings menu on the file list tab,
though I like it the way it is by default.
Winrar will also start up using the same directory you were last
viewing when it starts, though this is
configurable via the settings menu. I personally like this option,
since it allows me to leave winrar in
a directory I use often, and know it will start there next time I run it.
You can also add favorites to winrar, and even scan programs for
viruses using any installed virus
scanners already on your system. It's quite the versatile program,
and the fact that it's 100 percent
accessible is simply a huge plus.

Just like explorer, you'll have all the items on your computer, cd
drives, hard disks, and any usb drives
you've plugged in, as well as any network shares you've mounted.
Navigating winrar is as simple as using the arrow keys as well as page
up and page down to move up and
down the list of files. First letter navigation is also possible,
just press any letter of your choice,
and winrar will jump to the first file/directory with that letter.
Pressing it again will move to the
next one in line and so on.
When you get to a directory or archive file you want to navigate into,
simply press the enter key, and the
view changes to the new directory.
To get back out of the directory you're currently browsing, you can
either scroll to the top of the list,
then press enter on the two dots there (this means parent directory),
or you can simply use the control-
pageup key to get back much more quickly).
By default, directories are listed first, then files (sorted by
extension) with archive files being listed
first. This means that if you have multiple files with the same name,
but different extensions, they will
show up in different parts of the list. I like this arrangement, but
if you don't, it's possible to
change this behavior by changing the sort order via the menus.

Winrar will launch programs (just like windows explorer), load text or
doc files into word or notepad, or
open pdf files using adobe, just like windows explorer does, but the
real power of winrar becomes apparent
when you get to an archive you want to manipulate.

When you find an archive file you'd like to view, simply press enter
on it, and winrar will treat the file
just like it's a directory on the disk, allowing you to use the
archive file (zip, rar, arj, 7z, and so
on) exactly as if it were just another directory on the drive, even to
the point of viewing documentation,
and executing programs. The problem though is that if you use this
method to run an executable, it may or
may not work, depending on the program, and how it handles it's data
files (if any), because of being
executed from within the archive. Winrar will execute programs not
inside archives just fine.
Winrar will allow you to extract a text or doc file, edit that file,
then resave it back into the archive
when you're done, which makes for some handy disk usage savings.

In most cases though, when you're working with archive files, you will
want to extract those archives so
that you can work with them or install the programs, or whatever it is
you want to do, and lucky for us,
winrar has lots of ways to do this.
One of the reasons winrar is so accessible, is because it has
keystrokes for nearly every function you'd
ever want to perform. For example, extracting an archive is alt-E or
alt-W (depending on whether you wish
to specify where it is extracted to or not), and creating an archive
from the currently highlighted
directory or file is alt-A.
alt-T will test an archive, alt-R will perform recovery on an archive,
and many many more. In fact, you
can accomplish nearly everything you need to do using just key
combinations, it's almost never necessary
to use mouse or screen reader functions to accomplish what you need.

So, just for tutorial purposes, let's create an archive, and lock the
archive against tampering. (note,
locking archives is only available in the registered version).
First, we'll select a directory. Any directory will do, I'm going to
use my documents directory for this
example, but this will work for any directory you like.
First, navigate to your documents directory, then press enter to enter
the directory. Verify that this is
the directory we want. Once you've convinced yourself that you're in
the right place, winrar has a nice
keystroke that will take you back to the directory so you don't have
to page/arrow up to the top, then
press enter to get out of the directory, and that is control-pageUp.
Once you're back on the documents directory, just press alt-A (or use
the applications key, and select add
to archive).
Winrar will prompt you for the archive name, which will default to
documents.rar.
Now, at this point, press tab and you can work your way through all
the various options for creating your
archive. You can select the archive type (rar, rar version 5, and zip
are the defaults). Yes, rar can
create zip files too.
Rar5 is the new archive type for rar, which is not compatible with
earlier versions of rar, so if you or
whoever receives the file doesn't have winrar version 5 or later, they
won't be able to uncompress the
file. This may or may not be what you want, depending on how security
conscious you are, so feel free to
choose whatever option you like, as long as you know the possible down
sides to selecting them.

The next option is the type of archive. I won't go into detail here,
but real quick, the options are:
store, fastest, fast, normal, good and best.
In general, these options range from no compression at all, to give me
the most compression you can, so
that my archive is as small as possible. Each option takes more
memory, and longer to execute.
The next option is dictionary size, and without getting into a lot of
technical details which most people
don't care about, the dictionary size determines how effective rar
will be when compressing data, if it
finds duplicate data in the each block, it can compress it better, so
in general, the larger the block,
the better the compression, with the trade off that the larger the
dictionary, the longer it will take to
actually do the compressing, because it has more data to search
through each time it wants to compress a
new piece of data.
It's generally best to leave the defaults here (on my machine using
best compression, it's 4 megabyte
blocks), but that will vary depending on compression type, and other
factors.
the next two tabs are an option to split your archive into specific
sizes. For example, if you're
compressing a large video file that is several hundred gigabytes, and
you only have 4 gigabyte dvd disks
to save it on, rar can split the file into multiple chunks, so that
you can copy each individual chunk to
a different disk and store it that way, or if you are trying to upload
a file to dropbox or some other
online file storage system, and they have a file size restriction,
winrar can solve that problem for you
by making the archive the exact size you need, and splitting it into
multiple files.
The first one asks you the size, and the second one asks whether you
specified the size in bytes,
kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes. So, if you are using the split
option, this gives you a way to
designate the archive size precisely so you won't have any confusion
over the actual archive sizes.

The next set of options are various options that will affect either
the archive, or the files you're
archiving. You have options such as:
delete files after archiving, (good for saving space on your hard
drive on low resource pcs),
Create a self extracting archive, (this means that your rar file will
be turned into an executable so that
people who don't have rar can still extract your archive).
Create solid archive, (Usually this option compresses better at the
expense of time)
Add recovery record (this makes your archives a bit larger, but allows
them to still extract properly,
even if the archive gets damaged)
test archive files (ensures the files were compressed properly,
generally not needed unless you're
archiving from unstable media)
Lock archive (Allows the archive to be locked against changes of any
kind after it's created)
and finally
set password (allows you to password protect the archive)

After you've configured your new archive the way you want it, tab to
the ok button, and away it goes.

While the archiving is taking place, winrar will present you with
three buttons, Background (which will
move winrar to the system tray, and remove it from the alt-tab
sequence; and the other buttons are Pause
archiving, and cancel.

When the archiving is complete, you will now have a new file in the
current directory with the name you
selected in the previous step, and if you selected background, winrar
will then reappear in the alt-tab
sequence, and also show you any errors it encountered during the
archiving process.
(note, this is the only inaccessible part of winrar, for some reason,
the view used to show errors isn't
accessible to NVDA, but you can use the log function to see any errors.)

That's all there is to it. Winrar is easy to use, and has some very
nice features that make it a great
general file viewer, as well as an excellent archive maintainer.
If you'd like to get a complete list of winrar functions and settings,
F-10 will do it, it presents you
with a nice organized multitab settings view that allows you to view
or change virtually everything about
winrar and how it works.

Below are a list of the more common functions and their key
combinations. These key combinations are
usually available from anywhere, though occasionally, they will work
when winrar is in particular modes
(for example, the extract archive obviously won't work if you're not
looking at an archive file).
Most of these functions are also available using the applications (or
context if you prefer) key which is
the one on the right side of the space bar between the alt and control
keys on most windows keyboards.

Delete file : delete
rename file : F2
menu : F10
Print file : control-i
Settings : control-s
Change drive : control-d
set password : control-p

Add files to archive : alt-a
Extract to specified directory : alt-e
extract without confirmation : alt-w
Lock archive : alt-l
add comment to archive : alt-m
Repair archive : alt-r
protect archive : alt-p
Test archive : alt-t
show information : alt-i
View file : alt-v

If you forget any of these keys, you can use the menus to find the
options you want. (of which F10 is
only the master menu key)

alt-f : file menu
alt-c : commands menu
alt-s : tools menu
alt-o : favorites
alt-n : options
alt-h : help

Some functions are only available in the registered version, but since
I've been a registered rar user for
many years now, I have no idea which functions aren't present in the
non registered version.
I realize this was a rather quick and dirty examination of winrar
functions, but I hope it was enough to
convince you that winrar is well worth taking a look see to verify for
yourself whether it can handle your
file browsing and archiving needs.
If there are questions, or comments, feel free to send them to me, and
I'd be glad to update this article
with modifications and additional information that folks would like to
see.
Feel free to repost this article where you like, as long as you give
credit to me (Travis Siegel) as the
originator.

On keyboards with two insert keys, one is the numpad insert and the other is the insert on the main keyboard.  Either one can be used with NVDA.  Try it.  Try numpad insert with down arrow to start read to end in a document.  Then try the insert on the main keyboard with down arrow.  I'm giving the desktop layout command for read to end.  Exactly the same thing will happen.  The key describer describes both keys the same way. If you use either insert with another key on the numpad, the same thing will happen.  There may be times when it is more convenient to use one insert than the other.  And if you are using a laptop, the insert key is the only insert key.  If you are using the laptop layout, I don't know if insert is used as an NVDA key.

 

Gene

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

From: Travis Siegel

Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 3:28 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] insert key problem

Most keyboards have two insert keys.  The one on the numpad can be used for NVDA, while the one in the middle on the top row of the sixpack of keys between the keyboard and numpad can be used for other uses.  Alternatively, you can use the passthrough key by pressing insert-2 which will allow you to press any key combo on the keyboard, and NVDA will ignore it and your other apps would pick up the key combination and act on it accordingly.

On 8/18/2017 3:31 PM, anthony borg wrote:

Hi list

I wonder if someone can help me.

As I have to use the sticky key I can’t use the capslock as NVDA key as well, because when I come to use it to write a capital letter it doesn’t work.

So I had to use the numpad insert key as NVDA, then after that I discovered that now I can’t use an insert key with other commands as well.

Can someone tell me if there is any other solution please?

Thanks in advance

Anthony

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Most keyboards have two insert keys.  The one on the numpad can be used for NVDA, while the one in the middle on the top row of the sixpack of keys between the keyboard and numpad can be used for other uses.  Alternatively, you can use the passthrough key by pressing insert-2 which will allow you to press any key combo on the keyboard, and NVDA will ignore it and your other apps would pick up the key combination and act on it accordingly.

Hi list

I wonder if someone can help me.

As I have to use the sticky key I can’t use the capslock as NVDA key as well, because when I come to use it to write a capital letter it doesn’t work.

So I had to use the numpad insert key as NVDA, then after that I discovered that now I can’t use an insert key with other commands as well.

Can someone tell me if there is any other solution please?

Thanks in advance

Anthony

Virus-free. www.avast.com

I've mentioned winrar on this list before, but I've also seen posts in
the past where folks claimed winrar wasn't accessible, so here's an
article I wrote to explain how to use winrar with NVDA. There is an
html version located at http://www.softcon.com/files/winrar.html

and the text version is pasted in below.

Hope folks find it useful.


Using NVDA with winrar

Winrar is a completely accessible file archiver similar to winzip or
7zip, created by rarlabs
(http://www.rarlab.com). The difference is that it not only handles
rar archives, but it can be used as a
general file explorer program, too, and that is what this article will
focus on.
When you launch winrar, you are presented with a general file view
similar to windows explorer. By
default though, winrar offers more information than windows explorer
does, and this is primarily the
reason I like it. I know explorer can be adjusted to show more
information, and winrar can also be
adjusted to show less information as well by unchecking details in the
settings menu on the file list tab,
though I like it the way it is by default.
Winrar will also start up using the same directory you were last
viewing when it starts, though this is
configurable via the settings menu. I personally like this option,
since it allows me to leave winrar in
a directory I use often, and know it will start there next time I run it.
You can also add favorites to winrar, and even scan programs for
viruses using any installed virus
scanners already on your system. It's quite the versatile program,
and the fact that it's 100 percent
accessible is simply a huge plus.

Just like explorer, you'll have all the items on your computer, cd
drives, hard disks, and any usb drives
you've plugged in, as well as any network shares you've mounted.
Navigating winrar is as simple as using the arrow keys as well as page
up and page down to move up and
down the list of files. First letter navigation is also possible,
just press any letter of your choice,
and winrar will jump to the first file/directory with that letter.
Pressing it again will move to the
next one in line and so on.
When you get to a directory or archive file you want to navigate into,
simply press the enter key, and the
view changes to the new directory.
To get back out of the directory you're currently browsing, you can
either scroll to the top of the list,
then press enter on the two dots there (this means parent directory),
or you can simply use the control-
pageup key to get back much more quickly).
By default, directories are listed first, then files (sorted by
extension) with archive files being listed
first. This means that if you have multiple files with the same name,
but different extensions, they will
show up in different parts of the list. I like this arrangement, but
if you don't, it's possible to
change this behavior by changing the sort order via the menus.

Winrar will launch programs (just like windows explorer), load text or
doc files into word or notepad, or
open pdf files using adobe, just like windows explorer does, but the
real power of winrar becomes apparent
when you get to an archive you want to manipulate.

When you find an archive file you'd like to view, simply press enter
on it, and winrar will treat the file
just like it's a directory on the disk, allowing you to use the
archive file (zip, rar, arj, 7z, and so
on) exactly as if it were just another directory on the drive, even to
the point of viewing documentation,
and executing programs. The problem though is that if you use this
method to run an executable, it may or
may not work, depending on the program, and how it handles it's data
files (if any), because of being
executed from within the archive. Winrar will execute programs not
inside archives just fine.
Winrar will allow you to extract a text or doc file, edit that file,
then resave it back into the archive
when you're done, which makes for some handy disk usage savings.

In most cases though, when you're working with archive files, you will
want to extract those archives so
that you can work with them or install the programs, or whatever it is
you want to do, and lucky for us,
winrar has lots of ways to do this.
One of the reasons winrar is so accessible, is because it has
keystrokes for nearly every function you'd
ever want to perform. For example, extracting an archive is alt-E or
alt-W (depending on whether you wish
to specify where it is extracted to or not), and creating an archive
from the currently highlighted
directory or file is alt-A.
alt-T will test an archive, alt-R will perform recovery on an archive,
and many many more. In fact, you
can accomplish nearly everything you need to do using just key
combinations, it's almost never necessary
to use mouse or screen reader functions to accomplish what you need.

So, just for tutorial purposes, let's create an archive, and lock the
archive against tampering. (note,
locking archives is only available in the registered version).
First, we'll select a directory. Any directory will do, I'm going to
use my documents directory for this
example, but this will work for any directory you like.
First, navigate to your documents directory, then press enter to enter
the directory. Verify that this is
the directory we want. Once you've convinced yourself that you're in
the right place, winrar has a nice
keystroke that will take you back to the directory so you don't have
to page/arrow up to the top, then
press enter to get out of the directory, and that is control-pageUp.
Once you're back on the documents directory, just press alt-A (or use
the applications key, and select add
to archive).
Winrar will prompt you for the archive name, which will default to
documents.rar.
Now, at this point, press tab and you can work your way through all
the various options for creating your
archive. You can select the archive type (rar, rar version 5, and zip
are the defaults). Yes, rar can
create zip files too.
Rar5 is the new archive type for rar, which is not compatible with
earlier versions of rar, so if you or
whoever receives the file doesn't have winrar version 5 or later, they
won't be able to uncompress the
file. This may or may not be what you want, depending on how security
conscious you are, so feel free to
choose whatever option you like, as long as you know the possible down
sides to selecting them.

The next option is the type of archive. I won't go into detail here,
but real quick, the options are:
store, fastest, fast, normal, good and best.
In general, these options range from no compression at all, to give me
the most compression you can, so
that my archive is as small as possible. Each option takes more
memory, and longer to execute.
The next option is dictionary size, and without getting into a lot of
technical details which most people
don't care about, the dictionary size determines how effective rar
will be when compressing data, if it
finds duplicate data in the each block, it can compress it better, so
in general, the larger the block,
the better the compression, with the trade off that the larger the
dictionary, the longer it will take to
actually do the compressing, because it has more data to search
through each time it wants to compress a
new piece of data.
It's generally best to leave the defaults here (on my machine using
best compression, it's 4 megabyte
blocks), but that will vary depending on compression type, and other
factors.
the next two tabs are an option to split your archive into specific
sizes. For example, if you're
compressing a large video file that is several hundred gigabytes, and
you only have 4 gigabyte dvd disks
to save it on, rar can split the file into multiple chunks, so that
you can copy each individual chunk to
a different disk and store it that way, or if you are trying to upload
a file to dropbox or some other
online file storage system, and they have a file size restriction,
winrar can solve that problem for you
by making the archive the exact size you need, and splitting it into
multiple files.
The first one asks you the size, and the second one asks whether you
specified the size in bytes,
kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes. So, if you are using the split
option, this gives you a way to
designate the archive size precisely so you won't have any confusion
over the actual archive sizes.

The next set of options are various options that will affect either
the archive, or the files you're
archiving. You have options such as:
delete files after archiving, (good for saving space on your hard
drive on low resource pcs),
Create a self extracting archive, (this means that your rar file will
be turned into an executable so that
people who don't have rar can still extract your archive).
Create solid archive, (Usually this option compresses better at the
expense of time)
Add recovery record (this makes your archives a bit larger, but allows
them to still extract properly,
even if the archive gets damaged)
test archive files (ensures the files were compressed properly,
generally not needed unless you're
archiving from unstable media)
Lock archive (Allows the archive to be locked against changes of any
kind after it's created)
and finally
set password (allows you to password protect the archive)

After you've configured your new archive the way you want it, tab to
the ok button, and away it goes.

While the archiving is taking place, winrar will present you with
three buttons, Background (which will
move winrar to the system tray, and remove it from the alt-tab
sequence; and the other buttons are Pause
archiving, and cancel.

When the archiving is complete, you will now have a new file in the
current directory with the name you
selected in the previous step, and if you selected background, winrar
will then reappear in the alt-tab
sequence, and also show you any errors it encountered during the
archiving process.
(note, this is the only inaccessible part of winrar, for some reason,
the view used to show errors isn't
accessible to NVDA, but you can use the log function to see any errors.)

That's all there is to it. Winrar is easy to use, and has some very
nice features that make it a great
general file viewer, as well as an excellent archive maintainer.
If you'd like to get a complete list of winrar functions and settings,
F-10 will do it, it presents you
with a nice organized multitab settings view that allows you to view
or change virtually everything about
winrar and how it works.

Below are a list of the more common functions and their key
combinations. These key combinations are
usually available from anywhere, though occasionally, they will work
when winrar is in particular modes
(for example, the extract archive obviously won't work if you're not
looking at an archive file).
Most of these functions are also available using the applications (or
context if you prefer) key which is
the one on the right side of the space bar between the alt and control
keys on most windows keyboards.

Delete file : delete
rename file : F2
menu : F10
Print file : control-i
Settings : control-s
Change drive : control-d
set password : control-p

Add files to archive : alt-a
Extract to specified directory : alt-e
extract without confirmation : alt-w
Lock archive : alt-l
add comment to archive : alt-m
Repair archive : alt-r
protect archive : alt-p
Test archive : alt-t
show information : alt-i
View file : alt-v

If you forget any of these keys, you can use the menus to find the
options you want. (of which F10 is
only the master menu key)

alt-f : file menu
alt-c : commands menu
alt-s : tools menu
alt-o : favorites
alt-n : options
alt-h : help

Some functions are only available in the registered version, but since
I've been a registered rar user for
many years now, I have no idea which functions aren't present in the
non registered version.
I realize this was a rather quick and dirty examination of winrar
functions, but I hope it was enough to
convince you that winrar is well worth taking a look see to verify for
yourself whether it can handle your
file browsing and archiving needs.
If there are questions, or comments, feel free to send them to me, and
I'd be glad to update this article
with modifications and additional information that folks would like to
see.
Feel free to repost this article where you like, as long as you give
credit to me (Travis Siegel) as the
originator.

I've mentioned winrar on this list before, but I've also seen posts in
the past where folks claimed winrar wasn't accessible, so here's an
article I wrote to explain how to use winrar with NVDA. There is an
html version located at http://www.softcon.com/files/winrar.html

and the text version is pasted in below.

Hope folks find it useful.


Using NVDA with winrar

Winrar is a completely accessible file archiver similar to winzip or
7zip, created by rarlabs
(http://www.rarlab.com). The difference is that it not only handles
rar archives, but it can be used as a
general file explorer program, too, and that is what this article will
focus on.
When you launch winrar, you are presented with a general file view
similar to windows explorer. By
default though, winrar offers more information than windows explorer
does, and this is primarily the
reason I like it. I know explorer can be adjusted to show more
information, and winrar can also be
adjusted to show less information as well by unchecking details in the
settings menu on the file list tab,
though I like it the way it is by default.
Winrar will also start up using the same directory you were last
viewing when it starts, though this is
configurable via the settings menu. I personally like this option,
since it allows me to leave winrar in
a directory I use often, and know it will start there next time I run it.
You can also add favorites to winrar, and even scan programs for
viruses using any installed virus
scanners already on your system. It's quite the versatile program,
and the fact that it's 100 percent
accessible is simply a huge plus.

Just like explorer, you'll have all the items on your computer, cd
drives, hard disks, and any usb drives
you've plugged in, as well as any network shares you've mounted.
Navigating winrar is as simple as using the arrow keys as well as page
up and page down to move up and
down the list of files. First letter navigation is also possible,
just press any letter of your choice,
and winrar will jump to the first file/directory with that letter.
Pressing it again will move to the
next one in line and so on.
When you get to a directory or archive file you want to navigate into,
simply press the enter key, and the
view changes to the new directory.
To get back out of the directory you're currently browsing, you can
either scroll to the top of the list,
then press enter on the two dots there (this means parent directory),
or you can simply use the control-
pageup key to get back much more quickly).
By default, directories are listed first, then files (sorted by
extension) with archive files being listed
first. This means that if you have multiple files with the same name,
but different extensions, they will
show up in different parts of the list. I like this arrangement, but
if you don't, it's possible to
change this behavior by changing the sort order via the menus.

Winrar will launch programs (just like windows explorer), load text or
doc files into word or notepad, or
open pdf files using adobe, just like windows explorer does, but the
real power of winrar becomes apparent
when you get to an archive you want to manipulate.

When you find an archive file you'd like to view, simply press enter
on it, and winrar will treat the file
just like it's a directory on the disk, allowing you to use the
archive file (zip, rar, arj, 7z, and so
on) exactly as if it were just another directory on the drive, even to
the point of viewing documentation,
and executing programs. The problem though is that if you use this
method to run an executable, it may or
may not work, depending on the program, and how it handles it's data
files (if any), because of being
executed from within the archive. Winrar will execute programs not
inside archives just fine.
Winrar will allow you to extract a text or doc file, edit that file,
then resave it back into the archive
when you're done, which makes for some handy disk usage savings.

In most cases though, when you're working with archive files, you will
want to extract those archives so
that you can work with them or install the programs, or whatever it is
you want to do, and lucky for us,
winrar has lots of ways to do this.
One of the reasons winrar is so accessible, is because it has
keystrokes for nearly every function you'd
ever want to perform. For example, extracting an archive is alt-E or
alt-W (depending on whether you wish
to specify where it is extracted to or not), and creating an archive
from the currently highlighted
directory or file is alt-A.
alt-T will test an archive, alt-R will perform recovery on an archive,
and many many more. In fact, you
can accomplish nearly everything you need to do using just key
combinations, it's almost never necessary
to use mouse or screen reader functions to accomplish what you need.

So, just for tutorial purposes, let's create an archive, and lock the
archive against tampering. (note,
locking archives is only available in the registered version).
First, we'll select a directory. Any directory will do, I'm going to
use my documents directory for this
example, but this will work for any directory you like.
First, navigate to your documents directory, then press enter to enter
the directory. Verify that this is
the directory we want. Once you've convinced yourself that you're in
the right place, winrar has a nice
keystroke that will take you back to the directory so you don't have
to page/arrow up to the top, then
press enter to get out of the directory, and that is control-pageUp.
Once you're back on the documents directory, just press alt-A (or use
the applications key, and select add
to archive).
Winrar will prompt you for the archive name, which will default to
documents.rar.
Now, at this point, press tab and you can work your way through all
the various options for creating your
archive. You can select the archive type (rar, rar version 5, and zip
are the defaults). Yes, rar can
create zip files too.
Rar5 is the new archive type for rar, which is not compatible with
earlier versions of rar, so if you or
whoever receives the file doesn't have winrar version 5 or later, they
won't be able to uncompress the
file. This may or may not be what you want, depending on how security
conscious you are, so feel free to
choose whatever option you like, as long as you know the possible down
sides to selecting them.

The next option is the type of archive. I won't go into detail here,
but real quick, the options are:
store, fastest, fast, normal, good and best.
In general, these options range from no compression at all, to give me
the most compression you can, so
that my archive is as small as possible. Each option takes more
memory, and longer to execute.
The next option is dictionary size, and without getting into a lot of
technical details which most people
don't care about, the dictionary size determines how effective rar
will be when compressing data, if it
finds duplicate data in the each block, it can compress it better, so
in general, the larger the block,
the better the compression, with the trade off that the larger the
dictionary, the longer it will take to
actually do the compressing, because it has more data to search
through each time it wants to compress a
new piece of data.
It's generally best to leave the defaults here (on my machine using
best compression, it's 4 megabyte
blocks), but that will vary depending on compression type, and other
factors.
the next two tabs are an option to split your archive into specific
sizes. For example, if you're
compressing a large video file that is several hundred gigabytes, and
you only have 4 gigabyte dvd disks
to save it on, rar can split the file into multiple chunks, so that
you can copy each individual chunk to
a different disk and store it that way, or if you are trying to upload
a file to dropbox or some other
online file storage system, and they have a file size restriction,
winrar can solve that problem for you
by making the archive the exact size you need, and splitting it into
multiple files.
The first one asks you the size, and the second one asks whether you
specified the size in bytes,
kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes. So, if you are using the split
option, this gives you a way to
designate the archive size precisely so you won't have any confusion
over the actual archive sizes.

The next set of options are various options that will affect either
the archive, or the files you're
archiving. You have options such as:
delete files after archiving, (good for saving space on your hard
drive on low resource pcs),
Create a self extracting archive, (this means that your rar file will
be turned into an executable so that
people who don't have rar can still extract your archive).
Create solid archive, (Usually this option compresses better at the
expense of time)
Add recovery record (this makes your archives a bit larger, but allows
them to still extract properly,
even if the archive gets damaged)
test archive files (ensures the files were compressed properly,
generally not needed unless you're
archiving from unstable media)
Lock archive (Allows the archive to be locked against changes of any
kind after it's created)
and finally
set password (allows you to password protect the archive)

After you've configured your new archive the way you want it, tab to
the ok button, and away it goes.

While the archiving is taking place, winrar will present you with
three buttons, Background (which will
move winrar to the system tray, and remove it from the alt-tab
sequence; and the other buttons are Pause
archiving, and cancel.

When the archiving is complete, you will now have a new file in the
current directory with the name you
selected in the previous step, and if you selected background, winrar
will then reappear in the alt-tab
sequence, and also show you any errors it encountered during the
archiving process.
(note, this is the only inaccessible part of winrar, for some reason,
the view used to show errors isn't
accessible to NVDA, but you can use the log function to see any errors.)

That's all there is to it. Winrar is easy to use, and has some very
nice features that make it a great
general file viewer, as well as an excellent archive maintainer.
If you'd like to get a complete list of winrar functions and settings,
F-10 will do it, it presents you
with a nice organized multitab settings view that allows you to view
or change virtually everything about
winrar and how it works.

Below are a list of the more common functions and their key
combinations. These key combinations are
usually available from anywhere, though occasionally, they will work
when winrar is in particular modes
(for example, the extract archive obviously won't work if you're not
looking at an archive file).
Most of these functions are also available using the applications (or
context if you prefer) key which is
the one on the right side of the space bar between the alt and control
keys on most windows keyboards.

Delete file : delete
rename file : F2
menu : F10
Print file : control-i
Settings : control-s
Change drive : control-d
set password : control-p

Add files to archive : alt-a
Extract to specified directory : alt-e
extract without confirmation : alt-w
Lock archive : alt-l
add comment to archive : alt-m
Repair archive : alt-r
protect archive : alt-p
Test archive : alt-t
show information : alt-i
View file : alt-v

If you forget any of these keys, you can use the menus to find the
options you want. (of which F10 is
only the master menu key)

alt-f : file menu
alt-c : commands menu
alt-s : tools menu
alt-o : favorites
alt-n : options
alt-h : help

Some functions are only available in the registered version, but since
I've been a registered rar user for
many years now, I have no idea which functions aren't present in the
non registered version.
I realize this was a rather quick and dirty examination of winrar
functions, but I hope it was enough to
convince you that winrar is well worth taking a look see to verify for
yourself whether it can handle your
file browsing and archiving needs.
If there are questions, or comments, feel free to send them to me, and
I'd be glad to update this article
with modifications and additional information that folks would like to
see.
Feel free to repost this article where you like, as long as you give
credit to me (Travis Siegel) as the
originator.

Hi list

I wonder if someone can help me.

As I have to use the sticky key I can’t use the capslock as NVDA key as well, because when I come to use it to write a capital letter it doesn’t work.

So I had to use the numpad insert key as NVDA, then after that I discovered that now I can’t use an insert key with other commands as well.

Can someone tell me if there is any other solution please?

Thanks in advance

Anthony

Hi,

Yes, yes and yes.

It can be downloaded at www.ytdl.org.

It can download playlists. It can even download from video and audio services other than Youtube.

It’s command line based, so as long as you read the documentation, it’s easy. I have batch scripts to download all my content – Especially easy since it can download in bulk and read URL’s from a file.

Cheers.
Damien.

 

From: The Wolf

Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 7:27 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] looking for a free YouTube video downloader that supports playlists

 

can you download playlist with it? also is it easy to use? 

On 8/18/2017 9:32 AM, Sarah k Alawami wrote:

You can use youtube-dl. It is a command line program that is fully accessible. You can even write a script that takes out the youtube ID as well. I love that piece of software.

 

Take care

On Aug 17, 2017, at 9:36 PM, Kwork <istherelife@...> wrote:

 

Hello,

I'm looking for a YouTube video downloader that supports playlists, and that is NVDA accessible. I'm not looking for anything that converts, so don't want a program that automatically downloads and converts without saving the original video. I've been using Pontes, but that hasn't been as reliable lately. Thanks for any help.

Travis