Re: Favourite add-ons
Gene
Those commands, undo and redo are spoken just
because the commands are given. But copy, cut, and paste are usually
spoken when the add on is aware that an action has occurred. I believe
there is a newer version of the add on than the one I'm using. I got it
when the add on first came out. In the version that may now be superceded,
I can cause copy text to be spoken at an improper time because of a bug.
If I copy a file to the clipboard from the files list in Windows Explorer, then
move to a document where no text is selected and use control c, copy to
clipboard will be spoken. But in general, the notifications are
reliable.
You can test this. Try copying a line of text to the
clipboard. Then, try copying it again. You will hear "no change"
spoken.
Gene
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Hi I use the Clipspeak add on and although the cut, copy and paste functions work OK when I use Control+y in MS Outlook to open the folder list, “Re-Do” is voiced by the add-on even though a Re-Do operation has not been performed. Similarly, Control+z can be pressed and “Un-Do” is voiced in contexts where it is not a viable keystroke. This makes me think the keystroke is voiced irrespective of the success/failure of the function it performs. ., ,
I am happy to use the add-on as I believe its pros outweigh it’s cons and so long as people are aware of it’s foibles, it’s a useful tool.
Cheers Chris From:
nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gene
Here is a correction to my last message.
I said that one reason that copy, cut and paste aren't announced is the ideological one I discussed. That may be incorrect. I read two discussions of this when users requested the feature that are available on Ghithub. I didn't see the ideological reason given. Instead, the mistaken belief was expressed that it can't be known reliably except in certain cases, when copying, pasting, and cutting occur. this is factually incorrect yet it was believed by the developers for most of the years NVDA has been under development. I don't know what the developers believe now.
The argument was that NVDA would have to be programmed to announce copy, paste, and cut when the commands were given without any knowledge of whether the actions were actually taken. So the screen-reader would give false information if something prevented the operations from occurring.
As the developer of the add on has demonstrated and as I did in my tests, this belief is incorrect and I strongly believe that since the belief has been disproven, that the feature should either be placed in code or that the add on be distributed and active as part of the installation. I don't care which solution would be adopted.
Gene ----- original Message -----
This message is rather long. I hope you find it interesting and provocative of thought.
Rarely, one of the icons doesn't work as expect in the system tray. I don't remember what now, but I couldn't do something in the system tray I should have been able to do but I could in the system tray dialog.
Aside from that, while it wouldn't be a major problem or inconvenience to accustom myself to the system tray interface for regular use, why should I have to? The dialog has been standard in screen-readers since Windows 98. Why wasn't it included in NVDA? As far as I know, this was for ideological reasons, and ideology defeated common sense and a reasonable accomodation to something that had been available for so long that it is now the standard.
the reason there was a separate system tray dialog in the first place is that the system tray wasn't accessible in Windows 98. And when the system tray dialog was instituted, a lot of people were still using Windows 95, where the system tray was also inaccessible. So the dialog started as a way to use an inaccessible feature, not as a redundancy.
The ideological principle is that screen-readers should never unless really necessary, present anything that isn't presented to the sighted user in a different format or manner or present any additional information.
While I generally agree with this approach, ideology, strictly adhered to to the point of absurdity, always fails to deal with reality or common sense.
New users to NVDA should not have to wait until they, maybe, learn about add ons to have a feature that has been standard in screen-readers for twenty years.
And it was partly the same ideological rigidity that caused the copy and paste announcements not to be heard in NVDA and I object for the same reasons. At least make the add ons part of the installation if they aren't added to the code. Window-eyes for years, had add ons as part of the installation of the program. This is nothing radical.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
Hi! I find the Clipspeak add-on very useful, because without it there is no announcement of when copying and cutting and pasting has been done; As for the system tray add-on, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why do you need this add-on, and consider it as essential, when the system tray is perfectly usable without it? I’m not criticizing, just curious as to why you consider it a necessary add-on and think it should be part of NVDA, when NVDA can easily read the system tray on its own? Bye for now! From Clare
From:
nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gene
I don't use many add ons because the way I use my computer, I don't benefit from most of them. But the two I use regularly and I consider important enough that they shouldn't be add ons is Clip Speak, which announces copy and past when you copy to and past from the clipboard, and the system tray dialog add on. The system tray dialog has been a standard part of screen-readers since Windows 2008. It should be included in NVDA itself but it isn't.
As for Clipp Speak, I don't know if there is a new version that solves these problems. the original version caused some problems in Word and it caused a problem in the Youtube downloader I use even though I wasn't directly using the add on. So, if you see strange problems you didn't have before, even if they seem unrelated to anything you would expect the add on to cause, try disabling them and see if the problem disappears.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
What are the most useful add-ons for you
people?
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Advisory: upcoming changes to StationPlaylist Studio and Windows 10 App Essentials add-ons: handing control over updates to Add-on Updater and NVDA Core
Hi all,
The following advisory is applicable if you are using StationPlaylist Studio and/or Windows 10 App Essentials. Also, it could serve as some sort of a history lesson behind how Add-on Updater actually came to be, as I think this is essential for understanding NVDA issue 3208 going forward:
Sometime this year, I will let Add-on Updater (proof of concept add-on) check for updates for StationPlaylist Studio and Windows 10 App Essentials. At the moment these add-ons are excluded from update checks because they come with their own update check routines, which in turn inspired Add-on Updater and gave ideas for allowing NVDA Core to check for add-on updates (issue 3208).
Background: in 2016, I wrote update check feature for StationPlaylist Studio add-on, which connected to my website and downloaded updates. In 2017, this was extended to Windows 10 App Essentials. The update routine for these add-ons were inspired by NVDA’s own update check feature, and add-on update facility was generalized in 2018 to cover other add-ons via Add-on Updater.
At the moment these two add-ons require special handling for update checks because:
In the next few weeks, I’ll make changes to these add-ons so that a single development snapshot build will be released for these, allowing those using current NVDA release channels (stable, beta/RC, alpha, source code) to use old and new features. This will be accomplished by using various attribute checks (hasattr function, for example) and using appropriate code paths. This change also makes it easier for Add-on Updater, and in extension, NVDA Core, to check for add-on updates.
Specifically:
Thanks. Cheers, Joseph
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Re: NVDA and TortoiseSVN
Rui Fontes
Hello!
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The second problem was already solved, but the fix was lost when changing to Alpha versions... It is a already reported problem, but it seems that no one is worried with it... Best regards, Rui Fontes NVDA portuguese team Às 08:53 de 22/08/2018, Mohammadreza Rashad escreveu:
Hello my friends, I'm using Windows 10 x64 build 1803 and TortoiseSVN
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Rui Fontes
Gene, in Portugal NVDA and Jaws are used by almost 100% of the users...
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Maybe Supernova, from Dolphin, Zoom Text and fusion, from AiSquared, and Window-Eyes, have around 5% of users... Regards, Rui Fontes Às 14:19 de 22/08/2018, Gene escreveu:
Not only JAWS has a system tray dialog. Window-eyes had one and System Access had one. I don't know about Dolphin (spelling but I wouldn't be surprised.
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Re: NVDA and TortoiseSVN
salam.
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did you try the program in other versions of windows or did you try the 32 bit version of the program? unfortunately i am not familiar with it, but if its not very technical and it is possible for me to help you in any way, i am ready to help.
On 8/22/18, Mohammadreza Rashad <mohammadreza5712@...> wrote:
Hello my friends, I'm using Windows 10 x64 build 1803 and TortoiseSVN --
By God, were I given all the seven heavens with all they contain in order that I may disobey God by depriving an ant from the husk of a grain of barley, I would not do it. imam ali
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Rui Fontes
Yes! Sorry Joseph!
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Rui Fontes Às 15:17 de 22/08/2018, Joseph Lee escreveu:
Hi,
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Chris Mullins
Hi I use the Clipspeak add on and although the cut, copy and paste functions work OK when I use Control+y in MS Outlook to open the folder list, “Re-Do” is voiced by the add-on even though a Re-Do operation has not been performed. Similarly, Control+z can be pressed and “Un-Do” is voiced in contexts where it is not a viable keystroke. This makes me think the keystroke is voiced irrespective of the success/failure of the function it performs. ., ,
I am happy to use the add-on as I believe its pros outweigh it’s cons and so long as people are aware of it’s foibles, it’s a useful tool.
Cheers Chris
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: 22 August 2018 11:14 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons
Here is a correction to my last message.
I said that one reason that copy, cut and paste aren't announced is the ideological one I discussed. That may be incorrect. I read two discussions of this when users requested the feature that are available on Ghithub. I didn't see the ideological reason given. Instead, the mistaken belief was expressed that it can't be known reliably except in certain cases, when copying, pasting, and cutting occur. this is factually incorrect yet it was believed by the developers for most of the years NVDA has been under development. I don't know what the developers believe now.
The argument was that NVDA would have to be programmed to announce copy, paste, and cut when the commands were given without any knowledge of whether the actions were actually taken. So the screen-reader would give false information if something prevented the operations from occurring.
As the developer of the add on has demonstrated and as I did in my tests, this belief is incorrect and I strongly believe that since the belief has been disproven, that the feature should either be placed in code or that the add on be distributed and active as part of the installation. I don't care which solution would be adopted.
Gene ----- original Message -----
This message is rather long. I hope you find it interesting and provocative of thought.
Rarely, one of the icons doesn't work as expect in the system tray. I don't remember what now, but I couldn't do something in the system tray I should have been able to do but I could in the system tray dialog.
Aside from that, while it wouldn't be a major problem or inconvenience to accustom myself to the system tray interface for regular use, why should I have to? The dialog has been standard in screen-readers since Windows 98. Why wasn't it included in NVDA? As far as I know, this was for ideological reasons, and ideology defeated common sense and a reasonable accomodation to something that had been available for so long that it is now the standard.
the reason there was a separate system tray dialog in the first place is that the system tray wasn't accessible in Windows 98. And when the system tray dialog was instituted, a lot of people were still using Windows 95, where the system tray was also inaccessible. So the dialog started as a way to use an inaccessible feature, not as a redundancy.
The ideological principle is that screen-readers should never unless really necessary, present anything that isn't presented to the sighted user in a different format or manner or present any additional information.
While I generally agree with this approach, ideology, strictly adhered to to the point of absurdity, always fails to deal with reality or common sense.
New users to NVDA should not have to wait until they, maybe, learn about add ons to have a feature that has been standard in screen-readers for twenty years.
And it was partly the same ideological rigidity that caused the copy and paste announcements not to be heard in NVDA and I object for the same reasons. At least make the add ons part of the installation if they aren't added to the code. Window-eyes for years, had add ons as part of the installation of the program. This is nothing radical.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
Hi! I find the Clipspeak add-on very useful, because without it there is no announcement of when copying and cutting and pasting has been done; As for the system tray add-on, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why do you need this add-on, and consider it as essential, when the system tray is perfectly usable without it? I’m not criticizing, just curious as to why you consider it a necessary add-on and think it should be part of NVDA, when NVDA can easily read the system tray on its own? Bye for now! From Clare
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gene
I don't use many add ons because the way I use my computer, I don't benefit from most of them. But the two I use regularly and I consider important enough that they shouldn't be add ons is Clip Speak, which announces copy and past when you copy to and past from the clipboard, and the system tray dialog add on. The system tray dialog has been a standard part of screen-readers since Windows 2008. It should be included in NVDA itself but it isn't.
As for Clipp Speak, I don't know if there is a new version that solves these problems. the original version caused some problems in Word and it caused a problem in the Youtube downloader I use even though I wasn't directly using the add on. So, if you see strange problems you didn't have before, even if they seem unrelated to anything you would expect the add on to cause, try disabling them and see if the problem disappears.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
What are the most useful add-ons for you people?
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"Fast Startup" sound akin to Startup Sound, could we get one?
While this is not directly NVDA related, the issue of lack of a "coming back from being shut down when using Fast Startup" sound, as well as the lack of the good, old-fashioned shutdown sound, under Windows 10 comes up repeatedly on virtually every screen reader related group I'm participating in.
I have just created feedback related to both, and here's the click-through link to the Windows 10 Feedback Hub for it (which, of course, only works for Windows 10 users): "Fast Startup" sound akin to Startup Sound, could we get one? If this is an accessibility issue for you, please review this feedback and upvote it so that it will garner more attention. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134 A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. ~ Richard Dehmel
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Hi,
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Correction: Joseph Lee, not Doug Lee. Cheers, Joseph
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rui Fontes Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 5:09 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons Hello! 1 - I agree that a screen reader should not modify the user interface given by the system where it is running; 2 - That should not interfere with the possibility of screen readers make available a alternative user interface, when it is usefull. 3 - Systray list addon was created by me, with the help of Rui Batista, and later modified by Doug Lee. 4 - Why I decided to create it? 4.1 - Most new NVDA users, at least in 2013 in Portugal and Brazil, were old Jaws users and so they were used to it; 4.2 - Sometimes, when you arrow through Systray, after making Windows+B, and you get to the Network icon, the system shows a popup, Network flyout or something like that, and make unusable the systray that way...; 5 - So, for me, the ideological reason is not valid, since the screen reader is not changing the user interface, but only giving anorther way to do the same... 6 - Regarding the announcement of copy, cut and paste, here I can understand the ideological reason, since the operating system do not announce it in some cases... 6.1 - The system never announces the fact of something being copied to the clipboard; 6.2 - When something is cutted, a visual information is given, since the text or file is gone, and NVDA not always give that information to us; 6.3 - When something is pasted, again, some visual information is given, but not always NVDA announce it... 7 - So, for me, the ideological reason only will be valid when NVDA give us the same information given visually. 8 - Untill that, I will defend the announcement of copy, cut and paste, making all efforts to gave a correct information, but when it will not be possible to be sure the operation was performed, giving us the information not confirmed... Regards, Rui Fontes NVDA portuguese team Às 11:14 de 22/08/2018, Gene escreveu: Here is a correction to my last message.
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Ralf Kefferpuetz
Hello,
You’ll find it here: https://github.com/Novalis7747/totalcmd-enhanced/raw/master/totalcmd-0.6.1.nvda-addon
cheers, Ralf
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Noah Carver via Groups.Io
Sent: Mittwoch, 22. August 2018 14:35 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons
Can I have the link for Total Commander enhanced?
On 8/21/2018 10:37, Ralf Kefferpuetz wrote:
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Gene
Not only JAWS has a system tray dialog.
Window-eyes had one and System Access had one. I don't know about Dolphin
(spelling but I wouldn't be surprised.
Gene
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1 - I agree that a screen reader should not modify the user interface given by the system where it is running; 2 - That should not interfere with the possibility of screen readers make available a alternative user interface, when it is usefull. 3 - Systray list addon was created by me, with the help of Rui Batista, and later modified by Doug Lee. 4 - Why I decided to create it? 4.1 - Most new NVDA users, at least in 2013 in Portugal and Brazil, were old Jaws users and so they were used to it; 4.2 - Sometimes, when you arrow through Systray, after making Windows+B, and you get to the Network icon, the system shows a popup, Network flyout or something like that, and make unusable the systray that way...; 5 - So, for me, the ideological reason is not valid, since the screen reader is not changing the user interface, but only giving anorther way to do the same... 6 - Regarding the announcement of copy, cut and paste, here I can understand the ideological reason, since the operating system do not announce it in some cases... 6.1 - The system never announces the fact of something being copied to the clipboard; 6.2 - When something is cutted, a visual information is given, since the text or file is gone, and NVDA not always give that information to us; 6.3 - When something is pasted, again, some visual information is given, but not always NVDA announce it... 7 - So, for me, the ideological reason only will be valid when NVDA give us the same information given visually. 8 - Untill that, I will defend the announcement of copy, cut and paste, making all efforts to gave a correct information, but when it will not be possible to be sure the operation was performed, giving us the information not confirmed... Regards, Rui Fontes NVDA portuguese team Às 11:14 de 22/08/2018, Gene escreveu: > Here is a correction to my last message. > I said that one reason that copy, cut and paste aren't announced is the > ideological one I discussed. That may be incorrect. I read two > discussions of this when users requested the feature that are available > on Ghithub. I didn't see the ideological reason given. Instead, the > mistaken belief was expressed that it can't be known reliably except in > certain cases, when copying, pasting, and cutting occur. this is > factually incorrect yet it was believed by the developers for most of > the years NVDA has been under development. I don't know what the > developers believe now. > The argument was that NVDA would have to be programmed to announce copy, > paste, and cut when the commands were given without any knowledge of > whether the actions were actually taken. So the screen-reader would > give false information if something prevented the operations from > occurring. > As the developer of the add on has demonstrated and as I did in my > tests, this belief is incorrect and I strongly believe that since the > belief has been disproven, that the feature should either be placed in > code or that the add on be distributed and active as part of the > installation. I don't care which solution would be adopted. > Gene > ----- original Message ----- > *From:* Gene <mailto:gsasner@...> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:49 AM > *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons > > This message is rather long. I hope you find it interesting and > provocative of thought. > Rarely, one of the icons doesn't work as expect in the system tray. I > don't remember what now, but I couldn't do something in the system tray > I should have been able to do but I could in the system tray dialog. > Aside from that, while it wouldn't be a major problem or inconvenience > to accustom myself to the system tray interface for regular use, why > should I have to? The dialog has been standard in screen-readers since > Windows 98. Why wasn't it included in NVDA? As far as I know, this was > for ideological reasons, and ideology defeated common sense and a > reasonable accomodation to something that had been available for so long > that it is now the standard. > the reason there was a separate system tray dialog in the first place is > that the system tray wasn't accessible in Windows 98. And when the > system tray dialog was instituted, a lot of people were still using > Windows 95, where the system tray was also inaccessible. So the dialog > started as a way to use an inaccessible feature, not as a redundancy. > The ideological principle is that screen-readers should never unless > really necessary, present anything that isn't presented to the sighted > user in a different format or manner or present any additional information. > While I generally agree with this approach, ideology, strictly adhered > to to the point of absurdity, always fails to deal with reality or > common sense. > New users to NVDA should not have to wait until they, maybe, learn about > add ons to have a feature that has been standard in screen-readers for > twenty years. > And it was partly the same ideological rigidity that caused the copy and > paste announcements not to be heard in NVDA and I object for the same > reasons. At least make the add ons part of the installation if they > aren't added to the code. Window-eyes for years, had add ons as part of > the installation of the program. This is nothing radical. > Gene > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Clare Page <mailto:clare.page@...> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:17 AM > *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons > > Hi! > > I find the Clipspeak add-on very useful, because without it there is no > announcement of when copying and cutting and pasting has been done; > > As for the system tray add-on, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why > do you need this add-on, and consider it as essential, when the system > tray is perfectly usable without it? I’m not criticizing, just curious > as to why you consider it a necessary add-on and think it should be part > of NVDA, when NVDA can easily read the system tray on its own? > > Bye for now! > > From Clare > > *From:*nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] *On Behalf Of *Gene > *Sent:* mardi 21 août 2018 16:04 > *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io > *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons > > I don't use many add ons because the way I use my computer, I don't > benefit from most of them. But the two I use regularly and I consider > important enough that they shouldn't be add ons is Clip Speak, which > announces copy and past when you copy to and past from the clipboard, > and the system tray dialog add on. The system tray dialog has been a > standard part of screen-readers since Windows 2008. It should be > included in NVDA itself but it isn't. > > As for Clipp Speak, I don't know if there is a new version that solves > these problems. the original version caused some problems in Word and > it caused a problem in the Youtube downloader I use even though I wasn't > directly using the add on. So, if you see strange problems you didn't > have before, even if they seem unrelated to anything you would expect > the add on to cause, try disabling them and see if the problem disappears. > > Gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:*Sociohack AC <mailto:acsociopath@...> > > *Sent:*Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:37 AM > > *To:*nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > > *Subject:*[nvda] Favourite add-ons > > What are the most useful add-ons for you people? > -- > Regards, > Sociohack > >
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Can I have the link for Total Commander enhanced?
On 8/21/2018 10:37, Ralf Kefferpuetz
wrote:
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NVDA keeping another process open
Felix G.
Hi!
Has anyone else noticed that when NVDA is running, it seems to keep some other processes permanently open? For example, there is a development environment, let's call it x, which I use for creating a software component. Strangely, when I open x and then close it again, it stays running as a process in task manager, but as soon as I close NVDA it also closes. I've tried with two other screen readers and they don't affect it in this way, that is, with those running, the process stops immediately when I close its window. So NVDA seems to do something to certain other processes which keeps them from terminating. I noticed the same with Outlook 2007, by the way, which I am still using on one machine. That also won't close as long as NVDA is running, but as soon as I exit NVDA, Outlook closes along with it. Other screen readers don't affect Outlook in this way. Best, Felix
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Rui Fontes
Hello!
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1 - I agree that a screen reader should not modify the user interface given by the system where it is running; 2 - That should not interfere with the possibility of screen readers make available a alternative user interface, when it is usefull. 3 - Systray list addon was created by me, with the help of Rui Batista, and later modified by Doug Lee. 4 - Why I decided to create it? 4.1 - Most new NVDA users, at least in 2013 in Portugal and Brazil, were old Jaws users and so they were used to it; 4.2 - Sometimes, when you arrow through Systray, after making Windows+B, and you get to the Network icon, the system shows a popup, Network flyout or something like that, and make unusable the systray that way...; 5 - So, for me, the ideological reason is not valid, since the screen reader is not changing the user interface, but only giving anorther way to do the same... 6 - Regarding the announcement of copy, cut and paste, here I can understand the ideological reason, since the operating system do not announce it in some cases... 6.1 - The system never announces the fact of something being copied to the clipboard; 6.2 - When something is cutted, a visual information is given, since the text or file is gone, and NVDA not always give that information to us; 6.3 - When something is pasted, again, some visual information is given, but not always NVDA announce it... 7 - So, for me, the ideological reason only will be valid when NVDA give us the same information given visually. 8 - Untill that, I will defend the announcement of copy, cut and paste, making all efforts to gave a correct information, but when it will not be possible to be sure the operation was performed, giving us the information not confirmed... Regards, Rui Fontes NVDA portuguese team Às 11:14 de 22/08/2018, Gene escreveu:
Here is a correction to my last message.
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Ralf Kefferpuetz
Hello,
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It makes lots of notepad++ functions accessible. Please see here: https://github.com/derekriemer/nvda-notepadPlusPlus/releases regards, Ralf
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Christian Schoepplein Sent: Mittwoch, 22. August 2018 11:38 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons Hej, what does the Notepad++ plugin do in detail and where can I get it? IIRC I did not see it on the regular addon page... Cheers and TIA, Schoepp On Tue, August 21, 2018 4:37 pm, Ralf Kefferpuetz wrote: Hello,
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Gene
Here is a correction to my last message.
I said that one reason that copy, cut and paste
aren't announced is the ideological one I discussed. That may be
incorrect. I read two discussions of this when users requested the feature
that are available on Ghithub. I didn't see the ideological reason
given. Instead, the mistaken belief was expressed that it can't be known
reliably except in certain cases, when copying, pasting, and cutting
occur. this is factually incorrect yet it was believed by the developers
for most of the years NVDA has been under development. I don't know what
the developers believe now.
The argument was that NVDA would have to be
programmed to announce copy, paste, and cut when the commands were given without
any knowledge of whether the actions were actually taken. So the
screen-reader would give false information if something prevented the operations
from occurring.
As the developer of the add on has demonstrated and
as I did in my tests, this belief is incorrect and I strongly believe that since
the belief has been disproven, that the feature should either be placed in code
or that the add on be distributed and active as part of the installation.
I don't care which solution would be adopted.
Gene
----- original Message -----
This message is rather long. I hope you find
it interesting and provocative of thought.
Rarely, one of the icons doesn't work as expect in
the system tray. I don't remember what now, but I couldn't do something in
the system tray I should have been able to do but I could in the system
tray dialog.
Aside from that, while it wouldn't be a major
problem or inconvenience to accustom myself to the system tray interface for
regular use, why should I have to? The dialog has been standard in
screen-readers since Windows 98. Why wasn't it included in NVDA? As
far as I know, this was for ideological reasons, and ideology defeated common
sense and a reasonable accomodation to something that had been available for so
long that it is now the standard.
the reason there was a separate system tray dialog
in the first place is that the system tray wasn't accessible in Windows
98. And when the system tray dialog was instituted, a lot of people were
still using Windows 95, where the system tray was also inaccessible. So
the dialog started as a way to use an inaccessible feature, not as
a redundancy.
The ideological principle is that screen-readers
should never unless really necessary, present anything that isn't presented to
the sighted user in a different format or manner or present any additional
information.
While I generally agree with this approach,
ideology, strictly adhered to to the point of absurdity, always fails to deal
with reality or common sense.
New users to NVDA should not have to wait until
they, maybe, learn about add ons to have a feature that has been standard in
screen-readers for twenty years.
And it was partly the same ideological rigidity
that caused the copy and paste announcements not to be heard in NVDA and I
object for the same reasons. At least make the add ons part of the
installation if they aren't added to the code. Window-eyes for years, had
add ons as part of the installation of the program. This is nothing
radical.
Gene
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Hi! I find the Clipspeak add-on very useful, because without it there is no announcement of when copying and cutting and pasting has been done; As for the system tray add-on, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why do you need this add-on, and consider it as essential, when the system tray is perfectly usable without it? I’m not criticizing, just curious as to why you consider it a necessary add-on and think it should be part of NVDA, when NVDA can easily read the system tray on its own? Bye for now! From Clare
From:
nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Gene
I don't use many add ons because the way I use my computer, I don't benefit from most of them. But the two I use regularly and I consider important enough that they shouldn't be add ons is Clip Speak, which announces copy and past when you copy to and past from the clipboard, and the system tray dialog add on. The system tray dialog has been a standard part of screen-readers since Windows 2008. It should be included in NVDA itself but it isn't.
As for Clipp Speak, I don't know if there is a new version that solves these problems. the original version caused some problems in Word and it caused a problem in the Youtube downloader I use even though I wasn't directly using the add on. So, if you see strange problems you didn't have before, even if they seem unrelated to anything you would expect the add on to cause, try disabling them and see if the problem disappears.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
What are the most useful add-ons for you people?
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Gene
This message is rather long. I hope you find
it interesting and provocative of thought.
Rarely, one of the icons doesn't work as expect in
the system tray. I don't remember what now, but I couldn't do something in
the system tray I should have been able to do but I could in the system
tray dialog.
Aside from that, while it wouldn't be a major
problem or inconvenience to accustom myself to the system tray interface for
regular use, why should I have to? The dialog has been standard in
screen-readers since Windows 98. Why wasn't it included in NVDA? As
far as I know, this was for ideological reasons, and ideology defeated common
sense and a reasonable accomodation to something that had been available for so
long that it is now the standard.
the reason there was a separate system tray dialog
in the first place is that the system tray wasn't accessible in Windows
98. And when the system tray dialog was instituted, a lot of people were
still using Windows 95, where the system tray was also inaccessible. So
the dialog started as a way to use an inaccessible feature, not as
a redundancy.
The ideological principle is that screen-readers
should never unless really necessary, present anything that isn't presented to
the sighted user in a different format or manner or present any additional
information.
While I generally agree with this approach,
ideology, strictly adhered to to the point of absurdity, always fails to deal
with reality or common sense.
New users to NVDA should not have to wait until
they, maybe, learn about add ons to have a feature that has been standard in
screen-readers for twenty years.
And it was partly the same ideological rigidity
that caused the copy and paste announcements not to be heard in NVDA and I
object for the same reasons. At least make the add ons part of the
installation if they aren't added to the code. Window-eyes for years, had
add ons as part of the installation of the program. This is nothing
radical.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Hi! I find the Clipspeak add-on very useful, because without it there is no announcement of when copying and cutting and pasting has been done; As for the system tray add-on, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why do you need this add-on, and consider it as essential, when the system tray is perfectly usable without it? I’m not criticizing, just curious as to why you consider it a necessary add-on and think it should be part of NVDA, when NVDA can easily read the system tray on its own? Bye for now! From Clare
From:
nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Gene
I don't use many add ons because the way I use my computer, I don't benefit from most of them. But the two I use regularly and I consider important enough that they shouldn't be add ons is Clip Speak, which announces copy and past when you copy to and past from the clipboard, and the system tray dialog add on. The system tray dialog has been a standard part of screen-readers since Windows 2008. It should be included in NVDA itself but it isn't.
As for Clipp Speak, I don't know if there is a new version that solves these problems. the original version caused some problems in Word and it caused a problem in the Youtube downloader I use even though I wasn't directly using the add on. So, if you see strange problems you didn't have before, even if they seem unrelated to anything you would expect the add on to cause, try disabling them and see if the problem disappears.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
What are the most useful add-ons for you people?
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Christian Schoepplein
Hej,
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what does the Notepad++ plugin do in detail and where can I get it? IIRC I did not see it on the regular addon page... Cheers and TIA, Schoepp
On Tue, August 21, 2018 4:37 pm, Ralf Kefferpuetz wrote:
Hello,
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Re: Favourite add-ons
Clare Page <clare.page@...>
Hi! I find the Clipspeak add-on very useful, because without it there is no announcement of when copying and cutting and pasting has been done; As for the system tray add-on, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why do you need this add-on, and consider it as essential, when the system tray is perfectly usable without it? I’m not criticizing, just curious as to why you consider it a necessary add-on and think it should be part of NVDA, when NVDA can easily read the system tray on its own? Bye for now! From Clare
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: mardi 21 août 2018 16:04 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Favourite add-ons
I don't use many add ons because the way I use my computer, I don't benefit from most of them. But the two I use regularly and I consider important enough that they shouldn't be add ons is Clip Speak, which announces copy and past when you copy to and past from the clipboard, and the system tray dialog add on. The system tray dialog has been a standard part of screen-readers since Windows 2008. It should be included in NVDA itself but it isn't.
As for Clipp Speak, I don't know if there is a new version that solves these problems. the original version caused some problems in Word and it caused a problem in the Youtube downloader I use even though I wasn't directly using the add on. So, if you see strange problems you didn't have before, even if they seem unrelated to anything you would expect the add on to cause, try disabling them and see if the problem disappears.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
What are the most useful add-ons for you people?
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Re: Facebook account
Brian's Mail list account
Do you mean you have also lost the computer access as well?
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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: "farhan israk" <fahim.net.2014@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:30 PM Subject: [nvda] Facebook account I'm Fahim from Dhaka Bangladesh. I use Google authenticator. I have changed
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