Also, if you open tools, in the NVDA menu, open Manage Add-ons, then down arrow to the add-on you want to know about, you can then tab to an add-on help button.  Press the space bar on the button and your default browser will open with the same or pretty much the same information as is on the web page for the add-on, describing its use.

I don't know if all add-ons have a help button but most of them do. 
Gene

On 6/7/2022 10:19 AM, Gene wrote:

This page, from which you can download the add-on, contains an explanation of what you can do with it.
https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/mozillaScripts.en.html

If you have questions or problems, ask.

Gene
   

On 6/7/2022 9:57 AM, Abbie Taylor wrote:

Could someone please refresh my memory as to the keystrokes for navigating to various fields in an open message in Thunderbird that are possible with the Mozilla Apps Enhancements add-on. I looked in the add-on manager and am not seeing any help documentation for this add-on like I've seen with other add-ons. Thanks.

Whether you can turn off the screen or not, you can dim the screen to a
point where, I would think, little power would be used and the screen
being on would have a negligible effect on running time per charge.

Gene
On 6/7/22, Kareen <kareen.kiwan@...> wrote:

Hi all. In my previous laptops there was the option to turn off the
display
by pressing a key combination. But, with my new laptop which is from the
Dell brand this option is not available unfortunately. I want to know
about
the screen curtain feature in NVDA does enabling it saves battery or it
is
only meant  for privacy purposes? also, does anyone knows of a way to
have
the screen really turned off, i mean to have an option similar to what
is
present in many laptops
I am interested in turning off the display to make the battery last
longer.
Thank you

Hi.

I've had the same issue for some months now despite installing the latest updates to the add-on and whatsapp. The only way around it for now it seems is to switch between chats with control tab and control shift tab. When you press control shift tab and you can't cycle back any more, that's the latest chat.

Very best wishes,

Mo.

On 03/06/2022 10:52, Ahmad Ismat wrote:

Hi,

 

It has ben 3 days since I face problem  when navigating the chat list in Whatsapp Desktop version on Windows 10. Previously one is able to move from one chat list to another using the arrow down or arrow up keys.  Unfortunately now when in the chat list pressing the arrow down or arrow up will go straight to the chat contents and there is no way you can navigate from one chat to another chat anymore !!

It is really frustrating ..anyone face the same problem ?

Is there a fix to this problem ? anyone kind to respond..thanks in advance..

 

My software version used are as follows:

1. Windows 10 version  21H2
2. WhatsApp Desktop Version 2.2218.8
3. NVDA version  2022.1
4. Whatsapp NVDA add on version  used  Version: 2.2212.8; Author: Gerardo Kessler <ReaperYOtrasYerbas@... 

 

Best Wishes,

Ahmad Ismat

Malaysia

 

 

This page, from which you can download the add-on, contains an explanation of what you can do with it.
https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/mozillaScripts.en.html

If you have questions or problems, ask.

Gene
   

On 6/7/2022 9:57 AM, Abbie Taylor wrote:

Could someone please refresh my memory as to the keystrokes for navigating to various fields in an open message in Thunderbird that are possible with the Mozilla Apps Enhancements add-on. I looked in the add-on manager and am not seeing any help documentation for this add-on like I've seen with other add-ons. Thanks.

Could someone please refresh my memory as to the keystrokes for navigating to various fields in an open message in Thunderbird that are possible with the Mozilla Apps Enhancements add-on. I looked in the add-on manager and am not seeing any help documentation for this add-on like I've seen with other add-ons. Thanks.

Hi all. In my previous laptops there was the option to turn off the display
by pressing a key combination. But, with my new laptop which is from the
Dell brand this option is not available unfortunately. I want to know about
the screen curtain feature in NVDA does enabling it saves battery or it is
only meant  for privacy purposes? also, does anyone knows of a way to have
the screen really turned off, i mean to have an option similar to what is
present in many laptops
I am interested in turning off the display to make the battery last longer.
Thank you

Hi all,
Well, I've been meaning to get off this list for a couple weeks now,
but new questions just keep popping up. This one has to do with the
GMail website and NVFDA. Since last September, whenever I log into my
GMail account, it loads standard view, despite me having had it set to
load basic HTML by default before then, and it changing on its own. I
was telling a friend about how I was considering moving to using Gmail
with Outlook, and she was telling me that she was able to switch back
to having basic HTML as her default view. This is the same friend who
I was mentioning last week with Zoom, so her primary screen reader is
JAWS. I think she said she uses Chrome as her default browser, and I
use Firefox. We were talking about this on Zoom just now, and she told
me that there was a button at the top of the page that says "basic
HTML." As my laptop is a touchscreen, I was able to swipe to the left
and find that button, but when I double tap on it, NVDA simply says
"activate," but does nothing, and I can't seem to get to it using the
normal keyboard commands. How do I access this?
Thanks,
Bob

Hi all. In my previous laptops there was the option to turn off the display
by pressing a key combination. But, with my new laptop which is from the
Dell brand this option is not available unfortunately. I want to know about
the screen curtain feature in NVDA does enabling it saves battery or it is
only meant  for privacy purposes? also, does anyone knows of a way to have
the screen really turned off, i mean to have an option similar to what is
present in many laptops
I am interested in turning off the display to make the battery last longer.
Thank you

That is pretty old.

I wonder if it would benefit from a completely clean install of windows and your other applications?
That, and replacing the spinning drive with a solid state one if it still has a conventional hard drive might get a couple more years out of it.



-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi
Sent: June 7, 2022 9:46 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA may Crash with inactivity on older Windows 10 computer

Hi Group,

OK, I should have mentioned this in my original post. The computer is an 
8 year old AMD clone with 16 GB RAM and a 6 core processor.


On 6/7/2022 2:59 AM, Luke Davis wrote:

Ron Canazzi wrote:

I use an older Windows 10 computer for storage and back up.

What's older?  What does winver say when you run it?

What kind of sound device?
What version of NVDA?
What add-ons are you running?

After not touching it for several hours, NVDA does not work.

Does the same happen with Narrator, if you leave that running for 
several hours instead?

I know the main sound card through which NVDA voices is working 
because other sounds I can play with hotkeys do indeed work.

Can you give an example of that?

if I press the hotkey used to launch it, it seems to reload as if it 
had crashed and needed to be restarted.

Please explain that.
NVDA will always restart when you press its shortcut key, regardless 
of whether it had been running, crashed, or stopped before.
What, in the way it acts when you press the shortcut key, makes you 
think it is recovering from a crash? How is it different than pressing 
the shortcut key while NVDA is working normally?

Luke

Ron Canazzi wrote:

I use an older Windows 10 computer for storage and back up.

What's older? What does winver say when you run it?

What kind of sound device?
What version of NVDA?
What add-ons are you running?

After not touching it for several hours, NVDA does not work.

Does the same happen with Narrator, if you leave that running for
several hours instead?

I know the main sound card through which NVDA voices is working
because other sounds I can play with hotkeys do indeed work.

Can you give an example of that?

if I press the hotkey used to launch it, it seems to reload as if it
had crashed and needed to be restarted.

Please explain that.
NVDA will always restart when you press its shortcut key, regardless
of whether it had been running, crashed, or stopped before.
What, in the way it acts when you press the shortcut key, makes you
think it is recovering from a crash? How is it different than pressing
the shortcut key while NVDA is working normally?

Luke

Ron Canazzi wrote:

I use an older Windows 10 computer for storage and back up.

What's older?  What does winver say when you run it?

What kind of sound device?
What version of NVDA?
What add-ons are you running?

After not touching it for several hours, NVDA does not work.

Does the same happen with Narrator, if you leave that running for several hours instead?

I know the main sound card through which NVDA voices is working because other sounds I can play with hotkeys do indeed work.

Can you give an example of that?

if I press the hotkey used to launch it, it seems to reload as if it had crashed and needed to be restarted.

Please explain that.
NVDA will always restart when you press its shortcut key, regardless of whether it had been running, crashed, or stopped before.
What, in the way it acts when you press the shortcut key, makes you think it is recovering from a crash? How is it different than pressing the shortcut key while NVDA is working normally?

Luke

Hi.

I'm not a developer so I'm throwing this idea out there in case anyone fancies making it.

I think it'd be awesome to have a tone control or an EQ for NVDA's audio output. An example of why this would be useful would be if you have your computer connected to a decent pair of speakers or a hi-fi and the TTS engine you're using has way too much bass. With this add-on you could easily fix this by removing the low frequencies, and because it would be  NVDA specific, your music or whatever you're listening to wouldn't be effected. I personally get around this problem by using 2 sound cards, but that isn't always an option particularly over headphones.

It could also work the other way by carving out the high frequencies if you have a speech synth that's too sibilant.

I could see this working in 2 ways. Either as a tone control, So 50% would be neutral, with values higher than that affecting the low frequencies and lower values the high frequencies. Or you could have a graphic EQ so you could boost or cut specific bands to taste like on a hi-fi. You could even offer both and allow the user to switch between each mode.

I'm pretty sure there's open source filters and EQs you could incorporate into the add-on so you wouldn't have to make everything from scratch. It wouldn't even have to be the best thing out there, just something good enough for the job.

Obviously it should not introduce any latency.

Feel free to forward this to the add-ons list.

I said at the top it could be an add-on but having it as standard would be even better.

I'm interested to see what you all think.

All the best,

Kara

Hi.

I'm not a developer so I'm throwing this idea out there in case anyone fancies making it.

I think it'd be awesome to have a tone control or an EQ for NVDA's audio output. An example of why this would be useful would be if you have your computer connected to a decent pair of speakers or a hi-fi and the TTS engine you're using has way too much bass. With this add-on you could easily fix this by removing the low frequencies, and because it would be  NVDA specific, your music or whatever you're listening to wouldn't be effected. I personally get around this problem by using 2 sound cards, but that isn't always an option particularly over headphones.

It could also work the other way by carving out the high frequencies if you have a speech synth that's too sibilant.

I could see this working in 2 ways. Either as a tone control, So 50% would be neutral, with values higher than that affecting the low frequencies and lower values the high frequencies. Or you could have a graphic EQ so you could boost or cut specific bands to taste like on a hi-fi. You could even offer both and allow the user to switch between each mode.

I'm pretty sure there's open source filters and EQs you could incorporate into the add-on so you wouldn't have to make everything from scratch. It wouldn't even have to be the best thing out there, just something good enough for the job.

Obviously it should not introduce any latency.

Feel free to forward this to the add-ons list.

I said at the top it could be an add-on but having it as standard would be even better.

I'm interested to see what you all think.

All the best,

Kara

Ron Canazzi wrote:

I use an older Windows 10 computer for storage and back up.

What's older? What does winver say when you run it?

What kind of sound device?
What version of NVDA?
What add-ons are you running?

After not touching it for several hours, NVDA does not work.

Does the same happen with Narrator, if you leave that running for several hours instead?

I know the main sound card through which NVDA voices is working because other sounds I can play with hotkeys do indeed work.

Can you give an example of that?

if I press the hotkey used to launch it, it seems to reload as if it had crashed and needed to be restarted.

Please explain that.
NVDA will always restart when you press its shortcut key, regardless of whether it had been running, crashed, or stopped before.
What, in the way it acts when you press the shortcut key, makes you think it is recovering from a crash? How is it different than pressing the shortcut key while NVDA is working normally?

Luke