Re: User configuration directory
Brian's Mail list account
Ah well one of the first things I do after getting a new machine is make all files visible to my account and set myself as admin. Also where possible set all folders to the same list view, increasingly hard in 10, and I also make sure it can open explorer windows in a new process so I can see how a I got to where I am with alt tab. its no hassle with plenty of ram after all.
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From: "Joseph Lee" <joseph.lee22590@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] User configuration directory Hi, I think there is a bigger problem here: the folder name doesn’t matter; what matters is if show hidden files and folders is turned on. Cheers, Joseph From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Adriani Botez Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 2:59 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] User configuration directory On the installed copy the folder is called systemconfig. Only in portable copies the foldeer is called Userconfig. Best Adriani Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 27.07.2018 um 23:21 schrieb Tage Johansson <frans.tage@... <mailto:frans.tage@...> >: Hello! Does anyone know where the NVDA user config directory usually is located. I tried to click on the item in the start menu, but it seams to be an empty file instead of a directory. Thanks in advance! Tage
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Re: User configuration directory
Brian's Mail list account
Yes you will not the warning when you try to use the config on liog in and this is because one copies into the other, including add ons so if any might be insecure you are warned.
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From: "Roger Stewart" <paganus2@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] User configuration directory Don't think so. I just checked and I find an item on my installed copy
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Re: Easy Table add-on
Brian's Mail list account
You need to add convenient keys to access the functions you want. I think they are left undefined so you can avoid clashes with other key sequences you may have on other software. Key combinations are getting very hard to find that are not being used for something else!
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From: "Sociohack AC" <acsociopath@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 5:04 PM Subject: [nvda] Easy Table add-on Easy Table add-on has no commands specified on the official NVDA community add-on page. I installed the add-on nevertheless. Can you guys tell me how to activate it? I installed it from the add-on manager, but there has been no changes in my table navigation. -- Regards, Sociohack
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Re: NVDA Goes Silent In Dialogue on Websites
Brian's Mail list account
Firstly I do think you should update to the latest nvda on Windows 7. Then we can probably follow along with any diagnostics. Few will be using a version that old.
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Browsers and all sorts of windows updates could be to blame for strange behaviours which have been fixed in later versions of nvda. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "David Russell" <david.sonofhashem@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 4:43 PM Subject: [nvda] NVDA Goes Silent In Dialogue on Websites Hello Members,
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Re: Audacity add on?
Brian's Mail list account
I'm sure it used to be there, unless the functionality was added to the core of nvda or the audacity folk fixed the issues, but have broken them again.
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From: "Tyler Wood" <tcwood12@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>; "NVDA List" <nvda@groups.io>; "NVDA Add-Ons List" <nvda-addons@groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Audacity add on? I didn't even know there was one. I don't think it's listed on the official add ons page.
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Re: Using NVDA on XP?
Brian's Mail list account
There were a few snaps that also worked but to all intents and purposes they can be regarded as the same. I'm still using several machines like this and there is one worming. The addons might need to be older versions if you are downloading them. Newer ones may not work.
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However its still impressive how well nvda works on xp even with newer versions of software that still runs on xp, which is increasingly rare of course. Depending on whether your xp is running on AMD or Intel processors, the Intel versions actually have more software that will still run that the AMD ones do. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2018 5:52 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] Using NVDA on XP? Hi James, As Joseph noted, the last version of NVDA that works on Windows XP is NVDA 2017.3. The download for that version is: https://www.nvaccess.org/files/nvda/releases/2017.3/nvda_2017.3.exe Kind regards Quentin. On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@...> wrote: Hi, -- Quentin Christensen Training and Support Manager Official NVDA Training modules and expert certification now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/ www.nvaccess.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
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Re: Navigating a web page quickly
Brian's Mail list account
You are indeed fortunate. The person who can make a system of overview of a page for blind people in the same way as a glance does for the sighted is going to clean up. personally, I have a lot of difficulty with 'visualising layout of so many pages. Even though I can remember when I could see, its often far more convenient to see it as one long list of sections, rather than top sides and bottom sections. It means nothing to me if a site says, click the orange button on the right to read more about any section, as for a start its not on the right and also it probably does not say big orange button in any case and ods are its not a real button but a link.
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From: "John Isige" <gwynn@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Navigating a web page quickly Yep! It's why I tend to just look around the page. I forgot to mention I do use some of the other quick navigation keys, e.g. 'e' for the next edit field. Usually if somebody tells me to hit the colored button I ask them what it does or what it's called, and I can usually find it that way, if it's the order button for example, it's usually called that. Unless of course, it's unlabelled. But even there, looking around the page can help. The order button might not be labelled, but you might see your list of items, an unlabelled button, and then a "back" or "cancel" link or button. Luckily I have people around me who can check for me if I really need to make sure, but usually it's a pretty good bet that something like that will be the order or submit button, or whatever they might happen to call it.
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Re: skype accessibility
John Isige
Yes. Pretty sure it's in options but I forget where. I'm pretty sure it's called something like "show typing notification". I don't have 7 installed anymore because I'm preparing for the switch and I don't feel like installing it just to look up the exact name, sorry.
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On 7/28/2018 3:10, Brian Tew via Groups.Io wrote:
Is there any way to stop the "joe shmoe is typing" messages and the time announcements?
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Re: can't put the mail app on muy desktop
John Isige
I'm going to give this example with Mail, but this will work for any
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app, like the Windows 10 version of Skype, for example. Also, I don't use Mail so I don't know if it's just called Mail or Windows Mail or Microsoft Mail or what, so just replace "Mail" with whatever it's actually called. 1. Hit the Windows key. 2. Type mail. 3. When it shows mail, don't hit enter on it, right click it with the applications key or shift-F10. 4. Pick "pin to taskbar". 5. Hit escape to get out of start. 6. Hit Windows-m to go to the desktop, and tab until you hear "running applications tool bar", mine starts with a button for Edge but yours might be different. 7. Arrow right or left until you hear "mail button". 8. Right click on mail and arrow to "create shortcut". Hit enter on that. 9. It will say it can't create a shortcut there, do you want to send it to the desktop? Say yes, obviously. 10. You'll have a thing on your desktop named "Mail Shortcut". If you want to rename it to just "Mail", hit F2 or right click and pick rename. 11. Finally, if you want to take Mail off of your taskbar, repeat steps 6-8, but instead of picking "create shortcut", pick, wait for it, "unpin from taskbar". There you go. There's a shorter way to do this using the command line somebody posted a while back, but I have no idea what the command is because it seemed pretty complicated. This is fairly easy to remember and it works for pretty much anything, as far as I can tell. I broke it down into a lot of steps so it would be easier to understand, but basically you find thingy, right click and pick pin to taskbar, find thingy on your taskbar, right click and pick create shortcut and answer the obvious question, and you're done, thingy is now on your desktop. If you want to do some cleanup, unpin thingy from your taskbar and rename the desktop from "thingy shortcut" to "thingy". That's about six steps really, find it, pin it, find it on taskbar, create shortcut, unpin shortcut, and rename shortcut. Also, you can just go right to the taskbar because Mail is on there by default, so you can either run it from the taskbar all the time, or just right click and create the shortcut. I don't know if you can unpin it, since you didn't put it there in the first place. But like I said, this works for anything you can find from the start thingy like that, so hopefully that will help more generally.
On 7/28/2018 0:57, Rosemarie Chavarria wrote:
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skype accessibility
Brian Tew
Is there any way to stop the "joe shmoe is typing" messages and the time announcements?
I am using skype 7.4, but I could change to another version if there is reason to do so. Windojs 10, nvda with no add-ons so far on a desktop. thanks.
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Re: can't put the mail app on muy desktop
Robert Mendoza
Hi, Rosemary
To add shortcut to your desktop simply hit the Windows key + R, in the edit field type with out quote as follow shell:appsfolder then press enter then the dialog box will open. To quick find to the Mail apps pressed several times of letter M untill your focus got to right place. Pressed Shift + F10 to open the context menu then select Create
Shortcut
Robert mendoza
On 7/28/2018 1:57 PM, Rosemarie
Chavarria wrote:
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Re: thunderbird is very sluggish
Rosemarie Chavarria
I did unload and reload NVDA but that didn’t help. I’ll try rebooting and see if that helps. Right now I’m using the mail app to write this message.
Rosemarie
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From: Gene
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:25 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] thunderbird is very sluggish
Ass usual, did you unload and run NVDA again? If that didn't help, did you reboot?
Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: Rosemarie Chavarria Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 10:15 PM To: nvda@groups.io Subject: [nvda] thunderbird is very sluggish
Hi, everyone,
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Re: thunderbird is very sluggish
Gene
Ass usual, did you unload and run NVDA again?
If that didn't help, did you reboot?
Gene
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From: Rosemarie Chavarria
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 10:15 PM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: [nvda] thunderbird is very sluggish I don't know what's going on but there seems to be something wrong with thunderbird or NVDA. The speech is very sluggish. Is there a remmody for this? Thanks for your help in advance. Rosemarie
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Re: DVD Player?
Gene New Zealand <hurrikennyandopo@...>
Hi
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If it is for watching dvds etc use VLC Media player it is free and works well. I use it to watch dvds and if the dvd has audio description and can easily be turned on then i watch it that way. Other people use it for music. Gene nz
On 7/28/2018 1:39 PM, Roger Stewart wrote:
I need to know if there is a free and accessible program that will
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can't put the mail app on muy desktop
Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, everyone,
I just switched to the mail app but now I can’t put it on my desktop. I tried everything I know to do but nothing has worked. I don’t want to have to keep hitting the windows key and typing “mail” every time I want to go to the mail app. What could I be doing wrong?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Rosemarie
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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Re: Using NVDA on XP?
Quentin Christensen
Hi James, As Joseph noted, the last version of NVDA that works on Windows XP is NVDA 2017.3. The download for that version is: https://www.nvaccess.org/files/nvda/releases/2017.3/nvda_2017.3.exe Kind regards Quentin.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@...> wrote:
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Re: MS Onenote
Quentin Christensen
There are several versions of OneNote. In Windows 10 they appear as "OneNote 2016 (Desktop app)" and the other simply "OneNote", which is the UWP version. I haven't used them in awhile, but from memory the desktop version was better last I looked. Are you familiar with what OneNote is and how to use it (conceptually I mean, rather than which specific keys though obviously that's important too!)? Regards Quentin.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@...> wrote:
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thunderbird is very sluggish
Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, everyone,
I don't know what's going on but there seems to be something wrong with thunderbird or NVDA. The speech is very sluggish. Is there a remmody for this? Thanks for your help in advance. Rosemarie
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Re: DVD Player?
Well power dvd doesn't work now anyway its utterly inaccessible.
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Windows media player may work you can access the dvd menu and turn on audio description, vlc should work to. I use dvd audio extracter which nicely cracks your dvds for you. Ofcause if its one of those paramount ones then all the bits are all over and you can't pirate the dvds. I'd really like some accessible way to play my own dvds, for the older ones I just run cracking software and play them that way but to be honest, there are some secured dvds one which I was able to crack the other which didn't work so well so for those that don't work I end up playing them once then putting on my shelf with the other junk.
On 7/28/2018 1:39 PM, Roger Stewart wrote:
I need to know if there is a free and accessible program that will play DVD movies that works well with nvda? I had Power DVD that came with my first ever DVD RW drive but that was for Win XP and it won't run on Win 10. Hope there is one out there somewhere.
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Re: Using NVDA on XP?
Hi, The latest version that’ll run happily on Windows XP is 2017.3. Cheers, Jsoeph
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of James Bentley
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 7:02 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Using NVDA on XP?
Hi all,
I have a friend who is interested in using NVDA on a computer running XP.
Can he just down load the latest NVDA or should he try for an earlier version. If so, which version?
Many thanks,
James B
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