Re: how to change bang to exclamation and tick to apostrophe
Robert Doc Wright godfearer
That is odd because it worked for me and is still working now.
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From: Dennis L
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2019 3:31 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] how to change bang to exclamation and tick to apostrophe
Those instructions didn’t work.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Robert Doc Wright godfearer
Open NVDA menu Preferences Punctuation/symbol pronunciation Arrow down to the symbol you wish to change and tab once. Clear the field and type what you want to hear.
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From: Dennis L
Hi, how do I change bang to exclamation and tick to apostrophe
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Re: ALVA 544 Satellite Traveller braille display with NVDA
Install the driver from its disk that came with it.
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I found this out with a humanware display I borrowed, the website driver in this case didn't work and I had to install the driver from the driver disk.
On 26/08/2019 8:44 AM, Mohammadreza Rashad wrote:
Hello dear friends,
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Gene
Will GMail let you set up both a POP3 account and
an IMAP account for the same GMail account using an e-mail program?
If you can do this, you can switch to the pop
account, which you would have set not to download mail automatically, download
the mail for whatever period of time you decide to let pass, check the latest
messages to see if there is anything new, then delete all the mail you have
downloaded except anything new.
Don't send it to sent mail, completely delete
it. if you can set up a pop and IMAP accountin Thunderbird, that would be
the fastest and most convenient way to clear the inbox.
Gene
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behaviour of archiving mail instead of deleting it from the server when I deleted it in the client. I'm not sure how to get around this, other than to go on the web mail and clean out the mail periodically, though I think telling it to sync only 30 days worth of stuff should get me a lot of the way there as well. I had something like 8 years of mail synced to "all mail" locally, so no wonder it'd be slow. Even SSD would be slow with a 7 gig data chunk like that.
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Re: A point on email clients
I havn't used anything over thunderbird 60.8.0 but yeah, I don't care for ms products.
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There is old out dated eudora but not sure about other things, there was a thing called thebat but I don't know about anything else at all.
On 26/08/2019 3:58 AM, Vincent Le Goff wrote:
Hi everyone,
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Re: Anybody have a podcatcher recommendation?
I do have itunes but I like to manually download podcasts myself. For subscribing to podcasts if they have subscribe by email then I subscribe via that, most of them use mailchimp or feedburner. Feedburner is part of google so if you have a google account then you have access to that. I am unsure if you can post your own casts on there but I should try and see.
On 25/08/2019 10:47 PM, Marcio via
Groups.Io wrote:
John,
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Re: NVDA in Employment
David Csercsics
I was able to track down the thunderbird slowness to Google's silly behaviour of archiving mail instead of deleting it from the server when I deleted it in the client. I'm not sure how to get around this, other than to go on the web mail and clean out the mail periodically, though I think telling it to sync only 30 days worth of stuff should get me a lot of the way there as well. I had something like 8 years of mail synced to "all mail" locally, so no wonder it'd be slow. Even SSD would be slow with a 7 gig data chunk like that.
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Re: A point on email clients
Luke Davis
Vincent, I observe that you are already using Gmail. That leads to two points: you must be okay with giving them access to your email, so why not the big Microsoft overlord? Tongue in cheek of course. The second point is more relevant: have you considered using the Gmail web interface for your mail? If I recall correctly, there are at least two modes you can use that in; one of them might work in a way you enjoy.
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Just a thought. All that said, if you are using a local IMAP client, be it outlook or windows mail, or anything else, Microsoft or not, the provider shouldn't have any access to your mail. That is not generally how it works. I imagine there would be massive outcry among business customers, if it was learned that MS was sucking in all the mail they transacted using Outlook, especially given Microsoft's well known policy of "if it passes through our servers, it's our data". So I very much doubt your concern is valid here. Luke
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Vincent Le Goff wrote:
Hi Gene,
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Re: NVDA in Employment
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 06:10 PM, Andy B. wrote:
When TB sometimes lags for hours, Windows 10Well, those examples do not comport with what I've observed in the field over some period of time. And, as far as the NVDA and Thunderbird issues, those are far from universal, which should tell those having issues something. And that something is: Most Computer Issues Are Idiosyncratic – Not Global
It doesn't matter if we're talking about NVDA, or Windows, or Linux, or whatever. If the vast majority of users are not experiencing the same issues, even if some notable subset is, that strongly suggests issues with the systems on which the problems are occurring rather than with the software itself. When there is a major bug that affects virtually all users, and those are exceedingly rare, then you have a clear indicator of exactly where the fault lies. 'Twas ever thus, and ever will be. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1903, Build 18362 The color of truth is grey. ~ André Gide
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Luke Davis
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Andy B. wrote:
Aside the user interface design, NVDA is a deal breaker with software/web development because the autocomplete features of most IDEs like VS Code,In notepad++ at least, with Derek's add-on, autocomplete works just fine. And I thought they had fixed the vscode autocomplete issue in core, but could be wrong about that. Luke
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Put most simply:
1. All screen readers currently available and supported, and by that I mean JAWS, NVDA, Narrator and VoiceOver (on the Apple Platforms) handle most of the functions used by most users, across settings, be they at home or in the workplace, very, very well. 2. Each has specific things it may do much better or much worse than one or more of the others. 3. It is often not the screen reader that is a problem so much as what it is working over top of. 4. Any screen reader user should, ideally, expect that there will be the occasional situations where "my favorite" is not the best for doing a given task with a given program. Given that JAWS is the only one in the list above that requires licensing (and use in 40-minute mode is allowed even if you don't have one) and NVDA allows the creation of a portable version on USB media, a wise user will know enough about using the core functions they usually need in two or more. 5. Narrator is going to become a major force on Windows much like VoiceOver has been on the Apple platforms for years. Microsoft has clearly made a huge commitment to accessibility unlike anything they ever had done in the past. This being the case, one would be wise to learn the functions of Narrator one commonly uses with either JAWS or NVDA as one's primary because it will be available, without cost or installation, under Windows 10. There is no best screen reader sans the specific usage contexts in which it will run. I've seen that from every angle so many times I don't care to count. Asking about what's best or asserting what's best sans very clear defining parameters regarding usage is a fool's errand. A screen reader is no different than other tools, including physical ones. What's best is directly defined by what one needs to do with it and how good said tool is at doing it. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1903, Build 18362 The color of truth is grey. ~ André Gide
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Monte Single
I've been using nvda with m s outlook for several years and have had no real
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problems. I am certain I am not the only person with this experience.
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Andy B. Sent: August-25-19 4:10 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA in Emploandenp A few things here. 1. NVDA has been the most standards compliant for years, at least that you know of... Do you have documentation that NVDA is the most standards compliant Windows-based screen reader? I wouldn't call NVDA standards compliant when the only effective email client NVDA works with is the web-based version of Gmail. When TB sometimes lags for hours, Windows 10 Mail doesn't read well and you have to make use of notepad to type email, and NVDA+Outlook results in the error bell going off like the closing bell on Wallstreet, it doesn't sound very compliant. There are truck loads of other issues, but I digress. 2. Software developers are increasingly required to create standards compliant software. Do you have evidence from the U.S. Supreme court or other international governing body that standards compliant software is an absolute must? If so, what are those standards and penalties for violating the standards? This sounds more like an advocacy problem than an NVDA/JAWS problem. Each platform seems to have its own set of standards. UIA for Microsoft, IAccessible and IAccessible2 for browsers and most desktop software, atspi for Linux systems, and who knows what for MAC? In fact, Windows has implemented UIA since 2016, but NVDA still uses IA2 for most desktop/application access, and if they don't, they hide it in their APIs. 3. It is foolish to claim open source is not safe in the workplace. You seem to be taking this point from an NVDA users perspective. If you take it from the typical IT manager's perspective, the light turns in a different direction. Assuming the IT department isn't familiar with Python, IA2, UIA, and focused objects, scripting in Python becomes a problem. Besides, most AT software and hardware gains popularity through a good marketing plan. NVDA doesn't seem to have a good marketing plan, else they would have become direct competitor's with JAWS. In any case, most IT managers have no clue about AT and how it works. Thus, they will go with the product most advertised and sought after in the accessibility space. 4. Surprising your disability support person even knew the difference between JAWS and NVDA. Most schools never heard of them, or if they have, know nothing about what they do or how they work. 5. The point of AT software and hardware is to gain access to, and use the accessibility framework implemented in the operating system. Its other job is to compensate for a lack in such accessibility framework. Hence, why JAWS works better in VS code and Visual Studio better than NVDA, especially with autocomplete. Andy Borka Accessibility Engineer -----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of erik burggraaf Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2019 2:27 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA in Emploandenp Hi Kelby On August 25, 2019 7:39:31 AM "kelby carlson" <kelbycarlson@gmail.com> wrote: I hope this isn't too off-topic. I recently heard an argument that NVDA is bad for blind prospect's in employment because it is the "dumbed down" solution. That sounds like the blather of some one who recommended commercial screen readers for 20 years and is now having their apple cart upset. I've seen this time and time again and will keep seeing it as long as accessibility is a thing. When some one has to use dirision rather than fact to steer you away from one product and ttowards another, an alarm bell should shreek in your head. The person arguing this elaborated, saying that NVDA is not customizable/flexible enough (too chatty"), This is a matter of personal preference, but I can make NVDA do the common things such as punctuation level that I sometimes need to configure. that it was not able to be scripted as easily, Now, I have heard argued the other point that NVDA is easier to scrypt than jaws and I subscribe to this view. Consider, there are many more python programmers in the world than jaws scripters. A company can script NVDA in house using their own IT department. Otherwise, the company needs to outsource jaws scripting to an access technology professional. The prices I have seen quoted range from $500 per hour to $150 per line. it didn't work well with as much proprietary software, An argument that shows no understanding of access technology trends. It is no longer the purview of a screen reader to work with particular software. In the current and emerging model, an operating system creates accessibility API's that comply with recognized standards. Screen readers provide access using the API's and standards. Software manufacturers are increasingly legally and socially obligated to comply with accessibility standards and implement API's and ffeatures for accessibility provided by the system. Employers are increasingly legally and socially obligated to procure technology hardware and software that complies with accessibility standards so that it can work with access technologies. NVDA has been considered the most standards compliant screen rreader for several years as far as I know,. and that it wouldn't be allowed on secure environments due to being open source. Extrordinarily foolish. If open source software is insecure, why is it powering the commercial internet? If commercial software is inherantly secure, why do we need to spend billians of dollars protecting windows against viruses? NVD'S licencing makes it time and cost efficient to install across large networks such as call centre floors holding thousands of computer workstations. If your corporate network is secure, than running NVDA can't possibly be less secure than running say adobe reader, which is a known constantly volnerable commercial product. So my question is this: how many people here use NVDA for work, I do. I'm a compuuter programming student working as a web application developer for wholenote media in Toronto. I've experienced some of the things members are saying about programming tools such as long delays using intelisense. Not 30 seconds but finger-chompingly long lag. This is the fault of software developers such as Microsoft for not complying with standards or even properly implementing their own API's. At least, if you want me to consider that there might be something in NVDA causing severe lag in microsoft intelisense, how about giving us full access to xaml designer, rad tools, and unit testing among other things. If ms could say their product was up to snuff, then I'd consider that there's an ineficiency in NVDA. Otherwise, autocomplete works well for me in browsers and in VSCode though I haven't tried in notepadplusplus with the add on. We can talk about it when visual studio becomes truly viable for accessibility. and is there a notable dilerence in level of usability with JAWS? I couldn't speak to this. I haven't used jaws since the days of 4.5. I have provided some computer training on jaws systems though and have experienced significant frustration using google chrome, excel 2016, windows 10 mail, and other things. In helping jaws users the last year or so, I've seen an issue where displaying web content poops out. Jaws scripts still have a bent for corrupting themselves and needing to be re-installed. And they still haven't figured out how to deal with issues such as laptops switching video cards for various power profiles and ditching the authorization. I was at the college last week getting set up for my fall semester classes. When I sat down with my access technologist, a nondisabled college employee, he imediately expressed frustration to me over use of jaws in the college. He told me that in general nvda was working much better on college systems than jaws, nvda is superior at the maths I have to do this semester compared to jaws, and he thought for it's effectiveness, jaws was way over priced. This is a complete turnaround from 2.5 years ago when I was registering for courses. At that time, jaws was everything according to this guy. He was extremely skeptical of NVDA and only implemented it for me because I insisted. He was also dead set against mac and has had to rethink that position too. :-) I've told the story many times about going into the interview at the call centre back in 16. It looked like they were gung hoe to hire me. Their IT guy that I was working with said, "thank god you really wanted NVDA. Jaws won't even load up on our systems for testing." He also told me they would script NVDA in house using their python programmers. I didn't get hired, but I don't think it had anything to do with equipment and resources. Hope this helps,
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Re: ALVA 544 Satellite Traveller braille display with NVDA
David Csercsics
Yes, it's called braille extender, and it should work, according to the nvda docs. I don't have that display, but assuming you can get it connected, it should work. I think there is some sort of protocol converter or something for older alva displays, but I'm not sure how that works.
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Andy B.
A few things here.
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1. NVDA has been the most standards compliant for years, at least that you know of... Do you have documentation that NVDA is the most standards compliant Windows-based screen reader? I wouldn't call NVDA standards compliant when the only effective email client NVDA works with is the web-based version of Gmail. When TB sometimes lags for hours, Windows 10 Mail doesn't read well and you have to make use of notepad to type email, and NVDA+Outlook results in the error bell going off like the closing bell on Wallstreet, it doesn't sound very compliant. There are truck loads of other issues, but I digress. 2. Software developers are increasingly required to create standards compliant software. Do you have evidence from the U.S. Supreme court or other international governing body that standards compliant software is an absolute must? If so, what are those standards and penalties for violating the standards? This sounds more like an advocacy problem than an NVDA/JAWS problem. Each platform seems to have its own set of standards. UIA for Microsoft, IAccessible and IAccessible2 for browsers and most desktop software, atspi for Linux systems, and who knows what for MAC? In fact, Windows has implemented UIA since 2016, but NVDA still uses IA2 for most desktop/application access, and if they don't, they hide it in their APIs. 3. It is foolish to claim open source is not safe in the workplace. You seem to be taking this point from an NVDA users perspective. If you take it from the typical IT manager's perspective, the light turns in a different direction. Assuming the IT department isn't familiar with Python, IA2, UIA, and focused objects, scripting in Python becomes a problem. Besides, most AT software and hardware gains popularity through a good marketing plan. NVDA doesn't seem to have a good marketing plan, else they would have become direct competitor's with JAWS. In any case, most IT managers have no clue about AT and how it works. Thus, they will go with the product most advertised and sought after in the accessibility space. 4. Surprising your disability support person even knew the difference between JAWS and NVDA. Most schools never heard of them, or if they have, know nothing about what they do or how they work. 5. The point of AT software and hardware is to gain access to, and use the accessibility framework implemented in the operating system. Its other job is to compensate for a lack in such accessibility framework. Hence, why JAWS works better in VS code and Visual Studio better than NVDA, especially with autocomplete. Andy Borka Accessibility Engineer
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of erik burggraaf Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2019 2:27 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA in Emploandenp Hi Kelby On August 25, 2019 7:39:31 AM "kelby carlson" <kelbycarlson@gmail.com> wrote: I hope this isn't too off-topic. I recently heard an argument that NVDA is bad for blind prospect's in employment because it is the "dumbed down" solution. That sounds like the blather of some one who recommended commercial screen readers for 20 years and is now having their apple cart upset. I've seen this time and time again and will keep seeing it as long as accessibility is a thing. When some one has to use dirision rather than fact to steer you away from one product and ttowards another, an alarm bell should shreek in your head. The person arguing this elaborated, saying that NVDA is not customizable/flexible enough (too chatty"), This is a matter of personal preference, but I can make NVDA do the common things such as punctuation level that I sometimes need to configure. that it was not able to be scripted as easily, Now, I have heard argued the other point that NVDA is easier to scrypt than jaws and I subscribe to this view. Consider, there are many more python programmers in the world than jaws scripters. A company can script NVDA in house using their own IT department. Otherwise, the company needs to outsource jaws scripting to an access technology professional. The prices I have seen quoted range from $500 per hour to $150 per line. it didn't work well with as much proprietary software, An argument that shows no understanding of access technology trends. It is no longer the purview of a screen reader to work with particular software. In the current and emerging model, an operating system creates accessibility API's that comply with recognized standards. Screen readers provide access using the API's and standards. Software manufacturers are increasingly legally and socially obligated to comply with accessibility standards and implement API's and ffeatures for accessibility provided by the system. Employers are increasingly legally and socially obligated to procure technology hardware and software that complies with accessibility standards so that it can work with access technologies. NVDA has been considered the most standards compliant screen rreader for several years as far as I know,. and that it wouldn't be allowed on secure environments due to being open source. Extrordinarily foolish. If open source software is insecure, why is it powering the commercial internet? If commercial software is inherantly secure, why do we need to spend billians of dollars protecting windows against viruses? NVD'S licencing makes it time and cost efficient to install across large networks such as call centre floors holding thousands of computer workstations. If your corporate network is secure, than running NVDA can't possibly be less secure than running say adobe reader, which is a known constantly volnerable commercial product. So my question is this: how many people here use NVDA for work, I do. I'm a compuuter programming student working as a web application developer for wholenote media in Toronto. I've experienced some of the things members are saying about programming tools such as long delays using intelisense. Not 30 seconds but finger-chompingly long lag. This is the fault of software developers such as Microsoft for not complying with standards or even properly implementing their own API's. At least, if you want me to consider that there might be something in NVDA causing severe lag in microsoft intelisense, how about giving us full access to xaml designer, rad tools, and unit testing among other things. If ms could say their product was up to snuff, then I'd consider that there's an ineficiency in NVDA. Otherwise, autocomplete works well for me in browsers and in VSCode though I haven't tried in notepadplusplus with the add on. We can talk about it when visual studio becomes truly viable for accessibility. and is there a notable dilerence in level of usability with JAWS? I couldn't speak to this. I haven't used jaws since the days of 4.5. I have provided some computer training on jaws systems though and have experienced significant frustration using google chrome, excel 2016, windows 10 mail, and other things. In helping jaws users the last year or so, I've seen an issue where displaying web content poops out. Jaws scripts still have a bent for corrupting themselves and needing to be re-installed. And they still haven't figured out how to deal with issues such as laptops switching video cards for various power profiles and ditching the authorization. I was at the college last week getting set up for my fall semester classes. When I sat down with my access technologist, a nondisabled college employee, he imediately expressed frustration to me over use of jaws in the college. He told me that in general nvda was working much better on college systems than jaws, nvda is superior at the maths I have to do this semester compared to jaws, and he thought for it's effectiveness, jaws was way over priced. This is a complete turnaround from 2.5 years ago when I was registering for courses. At that time, jaws was everything according to this guy. He was extremely skeptical of NVDA and only implemented it for me because I insisted. He was also dead set against mac and has had to rethink that position too. :-) I've told the story many times about going into the interview at the call centre back in 16. It looked like they were gung hoe to hire me. Their IT guy that I was working with said, "thank god you really wanted NVDA. Jaws won't even load up on our systems for testing." He also told me they would script NVDA in house using their python programmers. I didn't get hired, but I don't think it had anything to do with equipment and resources. Hope this helps,
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Gene
It appears to me that you are trying much too hard
from what looks to me to be a defend NVDA position rather than a what is in the
real world position.
I'll begin by saying that I am retired and I didn't
use computers in my work. And if I had, I wouldn't have had a perspective
of the general situation. However, I offer
these observations for people to agree or disagree with.
NVDA has no way for the user to designate frames and have
things happen in those frames. I helped someone years ago who wanted a
screen-reader to do certain specific things when she logged on and worked with a
transcribing program in a VPN. The only way NVDA could be made to do the
things would have been to have one or more scripts. The whole point of
Frames in JAWS and what Window-eyes called windows and hyperactive windows, was
that you could define a part of the screen, have it read when you issue a
command, or have the screen-reader monitor that part of the screen and read it
when any change occurred, or take some sort of action if certain text appeared
or disappeared in the frame. There may be technical reasons
why NVDA can't have that feature. But it is a significant deficiency for
some, perhaps many, work situations and other settings where customization is
necessary. Aside from how many NVDA scripters there are, a lot of people
can learn to work with frames who wouldn't have the interest in learning how to
script.
Let's say, though this isn't a work situation, but
it is analogous to what I understand is often the case, that I wanted to play a
game, have certain parts of the screen read in a certain order and have certain
parts of the screen monitored to speak automatically when a specific thing
appeared on those parts of the screen and to have that reading interrupt current
reading. All this can be done with frames.
And two other important workplace features.
Can NVDA be made to indicate a capital letter when using read to end or up and
down arrowing, reading by line? This is important in the workplace and
anywhere else where people proof materials such as reports or papers, as in
schools and colleges. Also, it is my recollection, that JAWS can be made
to indicate extra spaces in a document. I suspect it can indicate other
things such as two periods, etc, when reading or moving line by line. Can
NVDA do that?
While it may be that standards are being
implemented more in software, I doubt the implementation is anywhere near
adequate in the wide range of programs used by businesses.
Having said all that, NVDA meets the needs of a lot
of users and is an enormous contribution to blind peoples' access to
computers. I'm not overlooking or denegrating that. But I remain to
be convinced that JAWS is no longer a better option in many work
situations.
Gene
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On August 25, 2019 7:39:31 AM "kelby carlson" <kelbycarlson@...> wrote: I hope this isn't too off-topic. I recently heard an argument that NVDA is bad for blind prospect's in employment because it is the "dumbed down" solution. That sounds like the blather of some one who recommended commercial screen readers for 20 years and is now having their apple cart upset. I've seen this time and time again and will keep seeing it as long as accessibility is a thing. When some one has to use dirision rather than fact to steer you away from one product and ttowards another, an alarm bell should shreek in your head. The person arguing this elaborated, saying that NVDA is not customizable/flexible enough (too chatty"), This is a matter of personal preference, but I can make NVDA do the common things such as punctuation level that I sometimes need to configure. that it was not able to be scripted as easily, Now, I have heard argued the other point that NVDA is easier to scrypt than jaws and I subscribe to this view. Consider, there are many more python programmers in the world than jaws scripters. A company can script NVDA in house using their own IT department. Otherwise, the company needs to outsource jaws scripting to an access technology professional. The prices I have seen quoted range from $500 per hour to $150 per line. it didn't work well with as much proprietary software, An argument that shows no understanding of access technology trends. It is no longer the purview of a screen reader to work with particular software. In the current and emerging model, an operating system creates accessibility API's that comply with recognized standards. Screen readers provide access using the API's and standards. Software manufacturers are increasingly legally and socially obligated to comply with accessibility standards and implement API's and ffeatures for accessibility provided by the system. Employers are increasingly legally and socially obligated to procure technology hardware and software that complies with accessibility standards so that it can work with access technologies. NVDA has been considered the most standards compliant screen rreader for several years as far as I know,. and that it wouldn't be allowed on secure environments due to being open source. Extrordinarily foolish. If open source software is insecure, why is it powering the commercial internet? If commercial software is inherantly secure, why do we need to spend billians of dollars protecting windows against viruses? NVD'S licencing makes it time and cost efficient to install across large networks such as call centre floors holding thousands of computer workstations. If your corporate network is secure, than running NVDA can't possibly be less secure than running say adobe reader, which is a known constantly volnerable commercial product. So my question is this: how many people here use NVDA for work, I do. I'm a compuuter programming student working as a web application developer for wholenote media in Toronto. I've experienced some of the things members are saying about programming tools such as long delays using intelisense. Not 30 seconds but finger-chompingly long lag. This is the fault of software developers such as Microsoft for not complying with standards or even properly implementing their own API's. At least, if you want me to consider that there might be something in NVDA causing severe lag in microsoft intelisense, how about giving us full access to xaml designer, rad tools, and unit testing among other things. If ms could say their product was up to snuff, then I'd consider that there's an ineficiency in NVDA. Otherwise, autocomplete works well for me in browsers and in VSCode though I haven't tried in notepadplusplus with the add on. We can talk about it when visual studio becomes truly viable for accessibility. and is there a notable dilerence in level of usability with JAWS? I couldn't speak to this. I haven't used jaws since the days of 4.5. I have provided some computer training on jaws systems though and have experienced significant frustration using google chrome, excel 2016, windows 10 mail, and other things. In helping jaws users the last year or so, I've seen an issue where displaying web content poops out. Jaws scripts still have a bent for corrupting themselves and needing to be re-installed. And they still haven't figured out how to deal with issues such as laptops switching video cards for various power profiles and ditching the authorization. I was at the college last week getting set up for my fall semester classes. When I sat down with my access technologist, a nondisabled college employee, he imediately expressed frustration to me over use of jaws in the college. He told me that in general nvda was working much better on college systems than jaws, nvda is superior at the maths I have to do this semester compared to jaws, and he thought for it's effectiveness, jaws was way over priced. This is a complete turnaround from 2.5 years ago when I was registering for courses. At that time, jaws was everything according to this guy. He was extremely skeptical of NVDA and only implemented it for me because I insisted. He was also dead set against mac and has had to rethink that position too. :-) I've told the story many times about going into the interview at the call centre back in 16. It looked like they were gung hoe to hire me. Their IT guy that I was working with said, "thank god you really wanted NVDA. Jaws won't even load up on our systems for testing." He also told me they would script NVDA in house using their python programmers. I didn't get hired, but I don't think it had anything to do with equipment and resources. Hope this helps,
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Re: ALVA 544 Satellite Traveller braille display with NVDA
Richard Turner <richardturner42@...>
Did you install the NVDA addon called something like Braille Extender?
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But, that is such an old display, I'm not sure it will work with Windows 10.
But, try the Braille extender, or whatever its called. I am not at home where I can check.
Richard
Always look out for #1, and be careful not to step in #2.
On Aug 25, 2019, at 1:44 PM, Mohammadreza Rashad <mohammadreza5712@...> wrote:
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Re: NVDA in Employment
Tony Malykh
My two cents: I use NVDA at work. My reasons are:
1. Superior scripting. I wrote half a dozen NVDA add-ons that greatly boost my productivity. For example, IndentNav, TextNav, BrowserNav. Writing similar scripts for Jaws would be hard since I'd have to learn new scripting language, and I was told (correct me if I'm wrong) some of my add-ons would be impossible to implement in Jaws scripting model since it is more limited in nature. 2. Better maintenance. Let's be honest, both NVDA and Jaws do have bugs. However I am delighted to observe that NVDA bugs do get fixed in a very timely fashion. An example of that would be recent breakage of Notepad++, that was fixed within only 10 days. To give you example from the other side, command prompt in Jaws had been broken for two years (approximately entire 2016 and 2017) and all my attempts to talk to Jaws customer support ended up with pretty generic messages "we're working hard on it, but it's not our fault anyways." This was actually the reason why I switched to NVDA - it is hard to keep your job knowing that an essential tool can get broken for years. it wouldn't be allowed on secure environments due to being open source.It is allowed at my work. Now I've indeed heard of cases when IT department wouldn't allow you to use NVDA with this excuse. It is important to understand the difference between real reasons and excuses. This one sounds to me like an excuse - there is nothing whatsoever in open-source software that makes it inherently insecure. However there are people in IT departments, who are lazy, and sometimes dumb - pardon my French. And in order to avoid doing a little bit of work, they might just reject NVDA with this excuse. On the positive side, it seems to me this happens rarely enough these days. --Tony On 8/25/2019 4:38 AM, kelby carlson wrote: Hi, everyone,
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Re: Anybody have a podcatcher recommendation?
chris miles
On 25/08/2019 07:44, John Isige wrote:
Googling I find this thread from 2017. Hi,
Try Sharp Reader.
It works well with Windows 10 and once you have entered in the web address, this program will automatically download the next episode.
Hot keys:
Press F6 shows list of folders Press F7 when on a folder, brings up list of
feeds in the selected folder Press F8 brings up URL - if using JAWS press shift and tab highligh link and then press enter Press context and you can sort by name; i.e. the folders will be indexed alphabetically.
I have been using this programme for several
years and it seems to work great.??
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ALVA 544 Satellite Traveller braille display with NVDA
Mohammadreza Rashad
Hello dear friends,
I've borrowed an abovementioned braille display, and want to use it with NVDA. I connect the display using a USB cable. when I restart the computer, it displayed that it's OK and waiting for connection. But when NVDA starts, the display doesn't function. I think that I should install its driver, because Windows says that the driver is unavailable, but I couldn't find any driver for it. I even installed BRLTTY, but it didn't recognize the display. What should I do to use the display with NVDA? Windows 10.1903 x64, NVDA 2019.2, ALVA 544 Satellite Traveler braille display. -- Best wishes, Mohammadreza Rashad
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Re: NVDA in Employment
By the way, I have updated the topic title so that if future searchers were looking for the terms NVDA and employment the title would match as well as some of the messages.
If you respond to the topic using this message, it will carry the corrected title along. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1903, Build 18362 The color of truth is grey. ~ André Gide
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Re: how to change bang to exclamation and tick to apostrophe
Kevin Cussick
Yes, instructions correct and if you fill things in properly it should work.
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On 25/08/2019 14:26, Chris Mullins wrote:
Hi
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