I am writing to see if there is a way to improve the reading of
mathematics written with the Microsoft Word equation editor,

Thanks for your reply.  TTS won't work for me unfortunately, I use a Braille display (my hearing doesn't allow me to follow using the speech synthesizer) so that reading message by message, as I wish, is a requirement.  But even with A TTS I guess you have some problems, sometimes you are typing and your recipient messages yor, the message gets interrupted because of your keyboard.  Or so I would think anyway!

I didn't know an issue had been opened (and seemingly fixed) regarding this problem.  I actually opened a new issue to report as accurately as possible the issue I'm facing.  We'll see.  As far as I know, there is some kind of accessibility improvement in the contact list (at least, there's a plugin that seems to be dedicated to accessibility in the contact list).  Don't know why, the contact list seemed fine to me, but perhaps I have selected this accessible plugin anyway.

We'll see what happens next!  Thanks for your message,

Someone already filed this bug with Miranda NG. In their latest release notes, they say this is fixed, but it makes no difference to me because I use the TTS plugin that reads incoming chat messages. Unfortunately, this TTS plugin does not work for group Miranda NG chat rooms, just one on one.

You are not required to purchase both sapi5 and the addon for $184.
You can just buy the sapi5 voice and exclusively use that one. Or you
can just buy the addon and just use that one.

So, why did I personally
decide to spend $184 on both the sapi5 and the addon you may ask? I
spent the $184 so the sapi5 voices could stay permanently on my
computer, but if I ever want to take NVDA with me to someone else's
computer I can choose to do that just by making a portable copy of
NVDA and putting it onto a flash drive with the codeFactory addon,
while leaving my sapi5 voices behind. It is far easier to quickly run
and register an addon rather than installing and uninstalling sapi5
voices on each computer I may go to. so the sapi5Â voices remain
stationary on my machine and my machine only. while the addon can come
with me on a flash drive if I wish, use it on another machine then
deactivate its license when I am done using it, like at a library.

Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1903, Build 18362  

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Ron,

Has anyone else noticed this and is there a work around of any kind?

Yes to both questions :)
What you'll want to do is to locate where NVDA says "graphic". Just below this graphic element will be the name of the add-on. It's the same for all of your add-ons.
When you've found the add-on's name, down arrow until you find a button. Press it and the option to deactivate or remove should appear right away.

Hth
Cheers,
Marcio AKA Starboy

Sent from a galaxy far, far away.

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Ron,

           You're right that things have gotten peculiar, to say the least, in the Add-Ons manager, but you can still access things if you have a bit of "inside info."

           After I open the Add-Ons Manager:

1.  Make sure you're on the Extensions control in the main control bar.  If not then up/down arrow until it's selected and activated.

2.  Hit TAB five times.   Oddly enough, in my case, when I land on the Add-Ons list the first word out of NVDA's mouth is "Chrome."  Why on earth that would be I have no idea.  You can silence NVDA at any point after you know that you're on the list.  If you let NVDA keep speaking it mentions heading level 2.

3.  At this juncture hitting TAB takes you into the Add-Ons list.  What's interesting is that the Add-On name itself is not what's announced, but the descriptive text for that Add-On.   Since this often includes the name of the Add-On, it tends to be pretty clear, but not always.  For instance, my DuckDuckGo add-on does not include that in its descriptive text, but instead they describe it starting with the word "Privacy."   After the descriptive text if you TAB once you will land on what NVDA announces simply as button.  If you activate that button a dropdown menu appears that you can down arrow through that includes Disable, Remove, Report and More Options.

4. Hitting TAB without activating the button takes you to your next add-on's descriptive text and another TAB to that add-on's "menu control button."  Lather, rinse, repeat.

I hope the above is enough to allow you to get in and remove or disable what you want to.

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Hello Josh,

Yes, you can, but only if you are in the USA. We here in Bulgaria still have to pay over $1000 for JAWS plus $150 per each yearly SMA upgrade, if I'm not mistaking. And those high prices is one of the reasons for many JAWS users here in Bulgaria to switch to NVDA (I've done that switch to NVDA almost a decade ago). And no - we don't get the possibility to obtain JAWS via some sort of government funding for home use, unfortunately. Only some users are lucky enough to get it for their job and when they leave that respective job, JAWS remains property of the employer and not the user. Yes - stupid - I know, but that is how it is.

And Freedom Scientific/Vispero know that in countries like Bulgaria purchases of JAWS are very low due to the high prices and still refuse to provide the annual subscription variant to such countries. Stupid - isn't it (?). Because it is better to get $100 per year for each sold JAWS license, than to get $0 from each not sold permanent license (because almost nobody here in Bulgaria can afford such a $1000 license).

And I'll stop here with my rant. I just wanted such things to be clear, so people don't get confused from statements like yours Josh that anybody can get a cheap JAWS license.

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Best wishes,
Kostadin Kolev