I'm nnot talking about exact methods and I don't know how proprietary they are or how generally known such methods are. I'm talking about ways of doing things such as MSAA which is now largely

And, indeed, they are. Society at large is, and should be, expected to provide reasonable accommodations. Sometimes those will be free, sometimes they will not. You can and will often have to pay

Gene, This is one of those rare instances where we are on precisely the same page. Solutions to any given problem may (or may not) trigger ancillary problems for any specific

Hi Gene, How can we be sure that NVDA is built on the same foundations as commercial screen readers? To me, that doesn't make logical sense. I'm not saying outright that it isn't the case - maybe I'm

Here Here!!  I couldn't have said it better! Roger

The problem isn't just with this one service. The underlying assumption of the argument is that any service a blind person needs to should be provided free because to charge anything exploits us by

Hi Quentin et al, A colleague reported today that the Latest Firefox is running very slow when she have NVDA running in Windows 7. She has good eyesight and finds that Firefox runs smoothly and

Hi Gene, For some reason that feature is located in the auto play settings in control panel.

Hi Brian, I can see both sides of the coin here. I am not generally one for grouching and complaining all the time, but I can see why a lot of blind people complain about paying for accessibility. Of

Whether it was more expensive than it should have been is one question. But being blind may cost you some money because you may need a service that you need to pay for. Ideally, you would get such

Did you open properties and switch between the parts of the properties dialog with control tab to try to find such a setting? Gene

Disabling and Enabling dropbox photos auto import from removable drives can be done with the auto play options in control panel.

I assume that in general, such people don't intend to do harm. But I still would not show or share personal information wit them unless there were no alternative. Hiding your password should be

How are you looking for the check box? Have you looked in the properties available from the system tray when you open the Drop Box menu in that way? I don't know if they are in properties, but the

OK, I guess that makes sense. I would never want to toggle off the things in the elements group (headings, links, etc.).

This is silly. So, who’s the arbiter of right and wrong? He has a skill. He put it to use. Everyone’s got to try their own hustle. Nothing’s stopping anyone else with similar programming

Ron, Life is not without risk, for any of us. Each of us has to make our own risk assessments, and act accordingly. Though I am not blind, I have plenty of life experience with

Hi Brian, You write in part: "There is no reason to believe that people volunteering to assist in this way are doing so to do you harm." There is also no reason to

Hi Darren, Principally, I would happen to agree with you. However, the unfortunate fact is, we live in a money-hungry world, and as far as I am aware, the maintainer of the service himself had to pay

Because a lot of people want an automated method to solve them so that they can workaround what is supposed to be a way of preventing bots from getting access to things. These solving services aren't