I am sending this on behalf of a friend, who is considering getting a Windows machine, but really wants to know how well he can do track changes with NVDA. He used to have a Windows machine along time

Perhaps it should be able to be turned on and off. Gene

Thank you, Rui.

I actually didn't mind this. In fact because I had at the time a broken keyboard I would want to hear, next, pause, forward, etc. I use foobar now so don't care either way. -- Sarah Alawami, owner

I have many a story where I can trigger my boyfriends assistant when I'm on the phone. He has also triggered mine. We also played with someone's ALady over twitch this way. There was a podcast and

I read the message again and I see it discusses the desktop and not quick navigation commands in browse mode. I also checked and I see that when moving by letter on the desktop, letters are

Quentin, Gene, et al I will point out, that in her original message, she did mention the desktop. That suggests to me that she is using the letters in question to jump to icons on the desktop.

I would think they should both be separately controled as to whether they speak. Or perhaps in the case of track announcement, perhaps I should say, whether it is on or off since I don't know which is

Hi Gene, There was a suggestion regarding this in the NVDA addons group a few months ago, I haven't seen an update since so looks like it probably is down to me. Not to worry though, since another

Yes I just tried to work out the same thing - the only thing I can think is the question I asked previously - are you using any add-ons? Maybe Mozilla app enhancements or something else which affects

Maybe, but it may be too much work for a small change from a technical standpoint. Perhaps someone else who regularly works with the current code could very quickly and easily make the change. Gene

I've updated windows, and its fine so it was my earlier attempts that had done it. Fortunately the restore fixed the issue.

Hi Gene, Agreed, when I made that particular update (back in the good old Python 2 days!), I had a few other things in mind that I wanted to do with it, including a setting to toggle the verbosity. I

I just checked this. NVDA is set not to announce quick navigation keys when in browse mode. I tried many, h for move by heading, b for button, x for check box and r for radio button. None were

Hi With “Speak Typed Characters” set to on NVDA has to announce the letter pressed first then the name of the object to which focus has moved and the delay between the 2 announcements is

I could have written this as a direct comment to the authors of the plugin, but it may be better to get different opinions here so the authors may have a better sense of what people want, to the

But mentioned under what conditions? By a screen-reader? By a news broadcast, by something else? I heard about an advertising campaign where a commercial had a word that would cause a certain

I have had my alexa speaker trigger when alexa is mentioned but I always have the microphone off when not using directly. In fact when I am sure that I am not going to use my new dot, due to all the

Has anyone had any digital assistant triggered by having a screen-reader say its name? I don't recall seeing any messages on the lists I follow about this. And I have a friend with an Echo who, at

It's a "wow in the world" reference. If anyone is interested just consult zootle for more. Glad the tip helped. You can do so much with that url. I even know someone who changed the format, time,