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Re: Thunderbird

Blake Roberts <BEarlRoberts@...>
 

This TB issue appears to affect quite a few people. Two individuals have asked similar question in the Thunderbird group on groups.io during my membership there. The solution is installing Mozilla Apps Enhancements NVDA add-on:
https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=5
Then use it to rearrange Thunderbird column headers. By columns I mean things such as to, from, subject, junkmail status... The 0 and 100 numbers beside messages are due to Thunderbird junkmail filtering. As I wrote in a recent Thunderbird group thread, my preference is to move the junk column from default location to next to last column. That way I hear "0" before the date/time stamp.

Blake
Re: NVDA and OCR software

Rui Fontes
 

It was just a question of reading some more lines...

Quoting myself:

For free software, NAPS2, with a user interface or command line, and also packaged in an add-on by me, at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez2r125eilvhzi9/NAPS2TesseractOCR_1.0_Gen.nvda-addon?dl=1


Rui Fontes


Às 23:03 de 14/10/2021, mike mcglashon escreveu:

Quoting:

The add-on makes the two things...

End quote

 

To which add-on do you refer?

And,

Where can we get it?

 

 

Please advise as you like.

 

Mike M.

 

Mike mcglashon

Email: Michael.mcglashon@...

Ph: 618 783 9331

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rui Fontes
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:01 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and OCR software

 

The add-on makes the two things...

 

NVDA+Control+R, in a selected file in File Explorer, makes OCR to the file.

NVDA+Control+shift+R scans a paper document from the scanner...

 

Rui Fontes

 

Às 22:51 de 14/10/2021, Dave Grossoehme escreveu:

This is great if you need to scan a document into a PDF.  However, is there any software or hardware/software that will take a PDF with a document that has beeen scanned into the PDF, and make that PDF of the scanned document be able to print.  I can use the windows OCR with NVDA to read the document, but can not print it.  Can you help me here? 

Dave

 

On 10/11/2021 2:27 PM, Rui Fontes wrote:

For a comercial product, FineReader 15...

 

For free software, NAPS2, with a user interface or command line, and also packaged in an add-on by me, at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez2r125eilvhzi9/NAPS2TesseractOCR_1.0_Gen.nvda-addon?dl=1

 

Best regards, 
 
Rui Fontes  
NVDA portuguese team  

 

Às 21:27 de 11/10/2021, cisco escreveu:

Hello everyone,

 

I do not know if this is a question better suited for the chat subgroup, if it is, please tell me.

 

If it’s ok to post it here, however, here it goes: if you use any kind of OCR solution that can open and OCR PDFS and acquire images from scanners, what would you recommend for efficient use with NvDA?

 

If that OCR had the ability to keep the formatting and layout of the document, that would be a much needed extra.

 

Thanks for any answer.

Best regards.

Francisco.
Re: Navigation similar to the “vertical navigation” voiceover feature?

Tony Malykh
 

I developed BrowserNav add-on for this. NVDA+Alt+DownArrow does this. It searches for elements that have exactly the same x coordinate.

HTH

On 10/13/2021 11:26 AM, Luke Robinett wrote:
Hi folks,
imagine I’ve got a webpage open and there is information on it that is visually laid out like a table but is not traversable as a table using NVDA. I am on a column heading and I want to move focus directly below it to the first cellof that column. In iOS, there’s a rotor option called “vertical navigation” that allows me to do this easily. Is there any such functionality in NVDA? Unfortunately, the only way I’v found to get to that cell is to press control + down arrow repeatedly,traveling through all The other column headings first, making it sometimes impossible to know when I’ve actually arrived at the first item under that original column heading. I hope the description of the problem makes sense. Thank you for any tips or strategies.

Luke
Re: trouble with speech when selecting text

Quentin Christensen
 

The usual questions:

Have you restarted the PC recently (and especially since updating NVDA or anything else)?

Are you using any add-ons? If so, does restarting NVDA with them disabled make a difference?

What programs are you experiencing this in? If word etc, have you changed the advanced setting for using UIA?

I tried just now with NVDA 2021.2 and it behaves as expected in office 365 word and notepad (reading the newly selected text).

Quentin

On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, 7:42 am Sarah k Alawami, <marrie12@...> wrote:

I'm also having this issue. I thought it was my synth, eloquence. Can this be rfeproduced with the other synths out there?

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On 14 Oct 2021, at 9:47, JinYoun wrote:

Hi, I'm not sure when this behavior started, but when I select text by pressing shift plus the arrow keys, NVDA will read out all of the slected content instead of each character I'm selecting, which is very confusing for me. Is there a way to have NVDA just read out the character I've just selected instead of everything that has been selected?
Thank you  

Re: NVDA and OCR software

Brian Vogel
 

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 05:51 PM, Dave Grossoehme wrote:
However, is there any software or hardware/software that will take a PDF with a document that has been scanned into the PDF, and make that PDF of the scanned document be able to print.
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You need to give something more here.  You just print a PDF from any PDF reader or editor.  It doesn't matter one bit if it is an image scanned origin PDF or one that was created as a PDF to begin with.
 
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Re: NVDA and OCR software

mike mcglashon
 

Quoting:

The add-on makes the two things...

End quote

 

To which add-on do you refer?

And,

Where can we get it?

 

 

Please advise as you like.

 

Mike M.

 

Mike mcglashon

Email: Michael.mcglashon@...

Ph: 618 783 9331

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rui Fontes
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:01 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and OCR software

 

The add-on makes the two things...

 

NVDA+Control+R, in a selected file in File Explorer, makes OCR to the file.

NVDA+Control+shift+R scans a paper document from the scanner...

 

Rui Fontes

 

Às 22:51 de 14/10/2021, Dave Grossoehme escreveu:

This is great if you need to scan a document into a PDF.  However, is there any software or hardware/software that will take a PDF with a document that has beeen scanned into the PDF, and make that PDF of the scanned document be able to print.  I can use the windows OCR with NVDA to read the document, but can not print it.  Can you help me here? 

Dave

 

On 10/11/2021 2:27 PM, Rui Fontes wrote:

For a comercial product, FineReader 15...

 

For free software, NAPS2, with a user interface or command line, and also packaged in an add-on by me, at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez2r125eilvhzi9/NAPS2TesseractOCR_1.0_Gen.nvda-addon?dl=1

 

Best regards, 
 
Rui Fontes  
NVDA portuguese team  

 

Às 21:27 de 11/10/2021, cisco escreveu:

Hello everyone,

 

I do not know if this is a question better suited for the chat subgroup, if it is, please tell me.

 

If it’s ok to post it here, however, here it goes: if you use any kind of OCR solution that can open and OCR PDFS and acquire images from scanners, what would you recommend for efficient use with NvDA?

 

If that OCR had the ability to keep the formatting and layout of the document, that would be a much needed extra.

 

Thanks for any answer.

Best regards.

Francisco.
Re: NVDA and OCR software

Rui Fontes
 

The add-on makes the two things...


NVDA+Control+R, in a selected file in File Explorer, makes OCR to the file.

NVDA+Control+shift+R scans a paper document from the scanner...


Rui Fontes


Às 22:51 de 14/10/2021, Dave Grossoehme escreveu:

This is great if you need to scan a document into a PDF.  However, is there any software or hardware/software that will take a PDF with a document that has beeen scanned into the PDF, and make that PDF of the scanned document be able to print.  I can use the windows OCR with NVDA to read the document, but can not print it.  Can you help me here? 

Dave


On 10/11/2021 2:27 PM, Rui Fontes wrote:

For a comercial product, FineReader 15...


For free software, NAPS2, with a user interface or command line, and also packaged in an add-on by me, at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez2r125eilvhzi9/NAPS2TesseractOCR_1.0_Gen.nvda-addon?dl=1


Best regards, 
 
Rui Fontes  
NVDA portuguese team  


Às 21:27 de 11/10/2021, cisco escreveu:

Hello everyone,

 

I do not know if this is a question better suited for the chat subgroup, if it is, please tell me.

 

If it’s ok to post it here, however, here it goes: if you use any kind of OCR solution that can open and OCR PDFS and acquire images from scanners, what would you recommend for efficient use with NvDA?

 

If that OCR had the ability to keep the formatting and layout of the document, that would be a much needed extra.

 

Thanks for any answer.

Best regards.

Francisco.
Re: NVDA and OCR software

Dave Grossoehme
 

This is great if you need to scan a document into a PDF.  However, is there any software or hardware/software that will take a PDF with a document that has beeen scanned into the PDF, and make that PDF of the scanned document be able to print.  I can use the windows OCR with NVDA to read the document, but can not print it.  Can you help me here? 

Dave


On 10/11/2021 2:27 PM, Rui Fontes wrote:

For a comercial product, FineReader 15...


For free software, NAPS2, with a user interface or command line, and also packaged in an add-on by me, at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez2r125eilvhzi9/NAPS2TesseractOCR_1.0_Gen.nvda-addon?dl=1


Best regards, 
 
Rui Fontes  
NVDA portuguese team  


Às 21:27 de 11/10/2021, cisco escreveu:

Hello everyone,

 

I do not know if this is a question better suited for the chat subgroup, if it is, please tell me.

 

If it’s ok to post it here, however, here it goes: if you use any kind of OCR solution that can open and OCR PDFS and acquire images from scanners, what would you recommend for efficient use with NvDA?

 

If that OCR had the ability to keep the formatting and layout of the document, that would be a much needed extra.

 

Thanks for any answer.

Best regards.

Francisco.
Re: nvda and acapela voices

Vlad Dragomir
 

Josh,

Do you happen to have The Code Factory add-on installed as well? If you do, try disabling it and restarting NVDA before trying  again with Acapela. At least for me it solved the problem.

 

Best,

 

Vlad.
Re: trouble with speech when selecting text

Sarah k Alawami
 

I'm also having this issue. I thought it was my synth, eloquence. Can this be rfeproduced with the other synths out there?

Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. .

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On 14 Oct 2021, at 9:47, JinYoun wrote:

Hi, I'm not sure when this behavior started, but when I select text by pressing shift plus the arrow keys, NVDA will read out all of the slected content instead of each character I'm selecting, which is very confusing for me. Is there a way to have NVDA just read out the character I've just selected instead of everything that has been selected?
Thank you  

Re: nvda and acapela voices

mehmet çetin
 


hello, I tried it, it works fine, I downloaded all the sound pack installation files, I checked all the sounds, there is no problem, by the way, the windows system I use is windows 11

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 9:15 PM
Subject: [nvda] nvda and acapela voices

Hi

Well I tried several acapela voices, all of them froze NVDA. The voices are not working for me on nvda 2021.2. So unfortunately I can’t risk buying them even though I really want to buy the acapela voices! Now if there were sapi5 versions of the engine and voices like codeFactory acapela voices then I would buy them. Or if the voices at least talked even if they said please register this product so I know they work—but they don’t. NVDA freezes and I get no speech. Contacting acapela has gotten me no response at all. I guess I’ll just have to stay with codeFactory eloquence and codeFactory vocalizer. Maybe someday I can buy the acapela voices when they are sapi5 and when they work.

 

Josh

 

 

Sent from Mail for Windows

 
nvda and acapela voices

Josh Kennedy
 

Hi

Well I tried several acapela voices, all of them froze NVDA. The voices are not working for me on nvda 2021.2. So unfortunately I can’t risk buying them even though I really want to buy the acapela voices! Now if there were sapi5 versions of the engine and voices like codeFactory acapela voices then I would buy them. Or if the voices at least talked even if they said please register this product so I know they work—but they don’t. NVDA freezes and I get no speech. Contacting acapela has gotten me no response at all. I guess I’ll just have to stay with codeFactory eloquence and codeFactory vocalizer. Maybe someday I can buy the acapela voices when they are sapi5 and when they work.

 

Josh

 

 

Sent from Mail for Windows

 
trouble with speech when selecting text

JinYoun
 

Hi, I'm not sure when this behavior started, but when I select text by pressing shift plus the arrow keys, NVDA will read out all of the slected content instead of each character I'm selecting, which is very confusing for me. Is there a way to have NVDA just read out the character I've just selected instead of everything that has been selected?
Thank you  
Re: NVDA and emoji keyboard #addonrelease

JinYoun
 

Hmmm so wierd, it only seems to work for me on the groups.io website and doesn't work on gmail or m.facebook for me on chrome... Maybe I'll try a different browser... 
Thanks
Re: New NVDA Story: Open source opens the way

Janet Brandly
 

Thank you. I will try to find it and share it out later today,

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Sent: October 13, 2021 7:43 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] New NVDA Story: Open source opens the way

 

As Jujube noted, it is up on our Facebook page.  It is often tricky to find things in any kind of order on Facebook, so here's a direct link to the post: https://www.facebook.com/NVAccess/posts/4583978535001800

 

Kind regards

 

Quentin.

 

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 7:20 AM Jujube <ellaxyu@...> wrote:

Hello Janet, If you look up NV Access facebook page, it is already posted there :)


 

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time zoner

dennis huckle <denniswhuckle@...>
 

Is there an updated addon for the latest version of nvda.

Kind regards,

Dennis huckle.

 
Re: Goldwave NVDA question

Aine Kelly Costello
 

Can confirm I also have this behaviour on a Dell XPS, I just thought it was normal haha and I turn the NVD volume down quite a bit to get round it. But, yeah, if it could be stopped that'd be great. I don't like turning speech off for extended editing as I feel like I'm more likely to accidentally press something I didn't mean to and not notice.
NVDA latest alpha, Goldwave 6.57, Goldwave add-on enabled or disabled happens regardless, Windows 10
Re: updating add ons

dennis huckle <denniswhuckle@...>
 

Many thanks,

It worked really well.

Kind regards,

Dennis huckle

 

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Sent: 14 October 2021 12:03
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] updating add ons

 

Yes, it's something we're aware of - basically our certificate was updated but for various reasons that hasn't propagated to everyone's computer yet.  The easiest fix is to install this add-on: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/files/7269883/NvdaCertPatch.zip created by mazen428 on GitHub, it updates your certificates then uninstalls itself (it throws an error in the process, but that is expected and also what prompts NVDA to remove it).

 

The add-on was created in response to the issue here: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/12894

 

And Joseph Lee also published some notes and alternative workarounds: https://twitter.com/joslee/status/1443991218698866689

 

Quentin.

 

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:25 PM dennis huckle <denniswhuckle@...> wrote:

Hello all.

I have turned my desktop on.

Its connected to the internet.

I want to check for updates and up date addons.

Each time I try both I get an error message saying “error checking for updates”

Or “error checking for addons updates”.

Any way of resolving this.

I have the latest version of nvda.

Kind regards,

Dennis huckle.

 


 

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Re: updating add ons

dennis huckle <denniswhuckle@...>
 

Many thanks,

Will try later today.

Kind regards,

Dennis huckle.

 

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Sent: 14 October 2021 12:03
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] updating add ons

 

Yes, it's something we're aware of - basically our certificate was updated but for various reasons that hasn't propagated to everyone's computer yet.  The easiest fix is to install this add-on: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/files/7269883/NvdaCertPatch.zip created by mazen428 on GitHub, it updates your certificates then uninstalls itself (it throws an error in the process, but that is expected and also what prompts NVDA to remove it).

 

The add-on was created in response to the issue here: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/12894

 

And Joseph Lee also published some notes and alternative workarounds: https://twitter.com/joslee/status/1443991218698866689

 

Quentin.

 

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:25 PM dennis huckle <denniswhuckle@...> wrote:

Hello all.

I have turned my desktop on.

Its connected to the internet.

I want to check for updates and up date addons.

Each time I try both I get an error message saying “error checking for updates”

Or “error checking for addons updates”.

Any way of resolving this.

I have the latest version of nvda.

Kind regards,

Dennis huckle.

 


 

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Quentin Christensen
Training and Support Manager

 
Re: updating add ons

Quentin Christensen
 

Yes, it's something we're aware of - basically our certificate was updated but for various reasons that hasn't propagated to everyone's computer yet.  The easiest fix is to install this add-on: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/files/7269883/NvdaCertPatch.zip created by mazen428 on GitHub, it updates your certificates then uninstalls itself (it throws an error in the process, but that is expected and also what prompts NVDA to remove it).

The add-on was created in response to the issue here: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/12894

And Joseph Lee also published some notes and alternative workarounds: https://twitter.com/joslee/status/1443991218698866689

Quentin.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:25 PM dennis huckle <denniswhuckle@...> wrote:

Hello all.

I have turned my desktop on.

Its connected to the internet.

I want to check for updates and up date addons.

Each time I try both I get an error message saying “error checking for updates”

Or “error checking for addons updates”.

Any way of resolving this.

I have the latest version of nvda.

Kind regards,

Dennis huckle.

 



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