I made an error. I mistakenly sent this message to the main NVDA group. I will send it to the chat list. Please answer on the chat list. Gene -----Orignal Message-----

While I usually use an e-mail program with GMail, there is an odd problem that may cause trouble one of these days. I can work with my actual account without problems. But GMail, when in the

Two recent topics and posts, with which I happen to agree, since Google is phasing out the Basic HTML view: https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda/message/89192 https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda/message/89828 --

this has nothing to do with NVDA. The option to cause GMail to open in basic HTML on the web site doesn’t work and hasn’t for some time. But there is a link you can use that will always cause

Hi NVDA, Each time I enter my Gmail account, I need to press enter on the line that reads, "Click to go to basic." I do not like the standard Gmail format, and want to remain in the classic format

Hi, Project Longhorn: I'm about to do it again (stay tuned for details). Cheers, Joseph

That is why screen readers have ways to turn on or off what you want to hear. The main problem is people don't want to learn there screen reader. They want it handed to them pre

I don’t use list information. I don’t know, if I did, if I’d find it more useful than hearing list information announced interrupting my reading but because I don’t want the interruption, I

Punctuation isn’t spoken when set to none. But one thing I still think shouldn’t be announced by default are what I call shapes. You will se an example in a later message. It has been said

Hi, Punctuation is interesting. It is sometimes forced on you by the synthesiser you are using. JAWS has a nice feature called Controlled By Synthesiser, but if you turn that off, then JAWS

Wow, that’s true. I didn’t realise that. If you left arrow it speaks, but if you right arrow, it doesn’t. That is actually an inconsistency that could easily be fixed. All the best Steve

Hi Gene, Why do you question lists being read out, I find this extremely useful, and that’s the problem with anyone trying to force defaults to be to their own personal tastes. All the

Hi Brian, Actually, JAWS doesn’t have everything set to maximum out of the box. Punctuation is a prime example, the default setting is Some. I don’t believe NVDA reads all punctuation out

Hi Brian, I agree, there is currently no way to search settings in NVDA, and this for me would be a must have. JAWS does this and does it well. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our

Hi, The correct name for that character is Carriage Return, and I believe it should say that. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and Special Offers list, go to

Hmm, I miss that part of the manual. thanks for that Regards, Thomas N. Chan

From reading the section labeled Portable and Temporary Copy Restrictions in the manual, it looks like your only solutions are to install it or run NVDA as admin.

Hi all, I notice one lack of NVDA portable copy which I am using. Whether in windows 7 or 10, this problem still occur. If you would type in devmgmt.msc in run box and bring up device

Hello all, Gene, on the matter of punctuation, I fully agree with you. I mean - who thought that it is a good idea to define some of the punctuation to be spoken at level "None"

Hi. I was wondering the same myself. We don't need all those addons there. All we need is our personal voice prefference such as synth of choice, speed etc. Nikos