Hi, my pc is a somewhat 8-9 years old and my brother’s son said I would at least need an upgraded CPE and most likely a new machine. What with all the expected increase in everything over the next few months, what should I do as I don’t work due to disabilities so what advice would you give me please? My pc is at present using the latest Windows 10 with NVDA (not sure what the latest version is) and is a 64 bit with a quodcore 14.4 ram.

 

Cheers, Steve

 

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Hi.  How did it get set to no speech, in case someone else comes across this?

Louise

Shift insert D is the command for audio ducking.

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Ah ha, yes, that may do it, can anyone tell me where that setting is please?

Is there a way to adjust the NVDA volume independent of other apps with the keyboard e.g. if I have music playing, can I turn up NVDA louder when it is speaking?

 

On Jan 29, 2022, at 5:28 PM, Louise Pfau <louise.pfau@...> wrote:

Hi.  I had no problem downloading either of the add-on files by pressing ENTER while focused on the links.  I did have trouble activating the "Save as" split button though, and I'm not sure what finally worked.  I tried navigating to the button by using TAB and SHIFT+TAB while on the "Downloads" page, and pressing both ENTER and SPACE multiple times.  I'm using NVDA 2021.3.1 with Microsoft Edge.

Louise

Here is a message I received off list concerning JAWS and this feature.


I don't know if the person wants his name used for attribution so I
won't do so.


Before I reproduce the comment, I'll ask a question. This may not
make sense. I don't have the technical knowledge to evaluate it. My
question is, can the way the role and other information is handled be
left as it is? Could only which output is spoken first be changed?
Would it be placed in a tiny buffer and presented in reverse order for
speech or reversed in some other way? Reversing the out;put would
seem to me to be the most simple means of accomplishing what is being discussed.


At times, when I [present an idea, I wish there were some way to poll
users about it. I may present an idea that a lot of people would
like if they knew of it but there may appear to be little or no demand
because the idea is largely unknown or, if known, users don't have a
structured way of reporting it and so they don't.


Here is the message:


In Jaws You're looking for "Speak control type first" and "Speak
control atate first" in the Settings Manager.
With both unchecked the label is spoken first (I.E., Start button).
With Control Type First you'll get button Start.
With State First it depends on whether Control Type First is checked
or not.


Gene

Here is a message I received off list concerning JAWS and this feature.


I don't know if the person wants his name used for attribution so I
won't do so.


Before I reproduce the comment, I'll ask a question.  This may not make
sense.  I don't have the technical knowledge to evaluate it.  My
question is, can the way the role and other information is handled be
left as it is?  Could only which output is spoken first be changed?
Would it be placed in a tiny buffer and presented in reverse order for
speech or reversed in some other way?  Reversing the out;put would seem
to me to be the most simple means of accomplishing what is being discussed.


At times, when I [present an idea, I wish there were some way to poll
users about it.  I may present an idea that  a lot of people would like
if they knew of it but there may appear to be little or no demand
because the idea is largely unknown or, if known, users don't have a
structured way of reporting it and so they don't.


Here is the message:


In Jaws You're looking for "Speak control type first" and "Speak control
atate first" in the Settings Manager.
With both unchecked the label is spoken first (I.E., Start button).
With Control Type First you'll get button Start.
With State First it depends on whether Control Type First is checked or
not.


Gene

I was thinking today about a new feature that might speed up work a good deal when writing documents.  I generally don't use f7 spell check these days.  I read my messages before sending them and change flagged spelling errors, thus doing two things at once that I would do separately otherwise. 

My proposal for a new feature, which I'd like comments about in terms of demand and feasibility is this:

There could be an NVDA command that moves to the next flagged misspelled word in a document.  Even if I read a document and hear a word flagged, the cursor is almost never on the word.  Its often at the beginning of the line and the misspelled word may take a lot of movement by word to get to.  If I could hear the flag, then issue the move to command, moving to the word could be sped up a lot most of the time.   As I think about it, this adds the equivalent to what a sighted person can do now.  A word is flagged, the sighted person can immediately move to or click on it, thus placing focus on it, and either manually correct it or use the context menu to do so.  Or a sighted person can do so later by seeing the flag, clicking on it, and correcting the word.

I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed before.  I did a Google search and I didn't find a Github issue, though I didn't search Github directly.

Gene

Hello!

Where you compose your e-mails?

In Word and Outlook, in browse mode, w will move to next error...

Rui Fontes

Rui Fontes

Às 01:00 de 31/01/2022, Gene escreveu:

I was thinking today about a new feature that might speed up work a good deal when writing documents.  I generally don't use f7 spell check these days.  I read my messages before sending them and change flagged spelling errors, thus doing two things at once that I would do separately otherwise. 

My proposal for a new feature, which I'd like comments about in terms of demand and feasibility is this:

There could be an NVDA command that moves to the next flagged misspelled word in a document.  Even if I read a document and hear a word flagged, the cursor is almost never on the word.  Its often at the beginning of the line and the misspelled word may take a lot of movement by word to get to.  If I could hear the flag, then issue the move to command, moving to the word could be sped up a lot most of the time.   As I think about it, this adds the equivalent to what a sighted person can do now.  A word is flagged, the sighted person can immediately move to or click on it, thus placing focus on it, and either manually correct it or use the context menu to do so.  Or a sighted person can do so later by seeing the flag, clicking on it, and correcting the word.

I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed before.  I did a Google search and I didn't find a Github issue, though I didn't search Github directly.

Gene

I was thinking today about a new feature that might speed up work a good deal when writing documents.  I generally don't use f7 spell check these days.  I read my messages before sending them and change flagged spelling errors, thus doing two things at once that I would do separately otherwise. 

My proposal for a new feature, which I'd like comments about in terms of demand and feasibility is this:

There could be an NVDA command that moves to the next flagged misspelled word in a document.  Even if I read a document and hear a word flagged, the cursor is almost never on the word.  Its often at the beginning of the line and the misspelled word may take a lot of movement by word to get to.  If I could hear the flag, then issue the move to command, moving to the word could be sped up a lot most of the time.   As I think about it, this adds the equivalent to what a sighted person can do now.  A word is flagged, the sighted person can immediately move to or click on it, thus placing focus on it, and either manually correct it or use the context menu to do so.  Or a sighted person can do so later by seeing the flag, clicking on it, and correcting the word.

I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed before.  I did a Google search and I didn't find a Github issue, though I didn't search Github directly.

Gene