Hello, group:     

I am a long-time NVDA supporter and user.  For over a month, I have been participating in the NYPL classes featuring Chancy fleet that focus on introducing screen reader users to NVDA. 

Years ago, I used NVDA as a reliable portable speech program that could be loaded onto a thumb drive to be used when I was in the field and did not necessarily have access to a computer with speech already installed.  I thought so highly of NVDA that I became a monthly supporter, a commitment that I retain. 

I just joined this group and consequently noticed that there was a recent upgrade.  So, I installed the upgrade and now Outlook is angry with mefor being a way for so long. 

When I load Outlook, all seems normal.  However, whenever I attempt to reply, the program will not accept the characters: That key is not available or That function is not supported.  In any case, I cannot enter text into the Reply field.  Is there a setting that I am not aware of that must be invoked to correct this?  Any assistance will be appreciated. 

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Mountain Lion Foundation

Feline Conservation Foundation

Behavioral Enrichment for Captive Animals

Animal Communication, Behavior, & Cognition

Feline Conservation & Biology

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1-530-902-2763 Cell

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Hello Kristy,

just wondering whether there is a way of NVDA reading screen shots in
emails I am using the Gmail website with google chrome.

You can do a couple of things:

- Make sure that Chrome's image description feature is turned on. This
will allow images with text to be read out as you browse the web. To do
this, press the applications key or shift+f10, and up arrow to the image
descriptions. Press enter to turn it on, and confirm.
- You can also use the NVDA OCR feature. This is a great feature for
reading screenshots, but can also be used to read the content of an
inaccessible app window, for example. To use this feature, simply press
NVDA+r. Note that when I say the NVDA key, I am referring to the Insert
key
or the caps lock key if you have that enabled or are in Laptop keyboard
layout mode.


Thanks, hope this helps.


On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 3:00 AM kristy stichter <kristystichter8@...>
wrote:

Hi all
just wondering whether there is a way of NVDA reading screen shots in
emails I am using the Gmail website with google chrome.

Kristy

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Thank you, and have a great day!

So I've got a friend on Twitter who wrote their username in runes. I
know Windows can deal with them, because they're part of the Unicode
charset. But their tweets show up with no username. That's not a
problem, but it got me curious.


Is there a way to get NVDA to automatically read characters like this? I
know there's an addon to tell you what characters are. I know some
synthesizers, e.g. the Vocalizer voices, can read some, e.g. Greek
letters on Wikipedia if you move character by character, whereas
Eloquence doesn't. Is there anything to do, like changing charset from
US or whatever, to get these to show up consistently? Obviously in this
case, it would spell the username character by character or something.
But right now, it looks like they have no username.


I'm actually less interested in getting it to show up in this specific
case than I am in the general problem. Basically, full access to the
Unicode charset, both reading and writing,  would be pretty awesome.

Hi


You can grab it from the skype web site this links to the download page
where you can get the desk top version at
https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/

Gene nz


On 31/10/2021 7:37 pm, Margus Ojaots wrote:

App. How can i get the desktop version for win 10?

2021-10-31 6:42 GMT +02:00, hurrikennyandopo ...
<hurrikennyandopo@...>:

Hi


Which version of Skype it it? is it the app version on windows 10 or is
it the desk top version for windows 10. There is another version which I
can not remember it was.


Most people use the desk top version but when you go into Skype its self
it is not changing into browse mode so use the nvda key + space bar to
do this. When it is in that mode you can use the letter F to get down to
the chats section then either use the space bar or enter key then go
down the page to read what is there.


The letter F will take you to form tabs, form fields etc in the desk top
version.

take

the app version you need to do a lot of tabbing so the desk top version
is much nicer to use.


Gene nz


On 29/10/2021 5:04 pm, Margus Ojaots wrote:

Hello. I have a problem with the lattest skype update. Once i open
skype, I can't see my recent chats.

App. How can i get the desktop version for win 10?

2021-10-31 6:42 GMT +02:00, hurrikennyandopo ... <hurrikennyandopo@...>:

Hi


Which version of Skype it it? is it the app version on windows 10 or is
it the desk top version for windows 10. There is another version which I
can not remember it was.


Most people use the desk top version but when you go into Skype its self
it is not changing into browse mode so use the nvda key + space bar to
do this. When it is in that mode you can use the letter F to get down to
the chats section then either use the space bar or enter key then go
down the page to read what is there.


The letter F will take you to form tabs, form fields etc in the desk top
version.

take

the app version you need to do a lot of tabbing so the desk top version
is much nicer to use.


Gene nz


On 29/10/2021 5:04 pm, Margus Ojaots wrote:

Hello. I have a problem with the lattest skype update. Once i open
skype, I can't see my recent chats.

Hi


Which version of Skype it it? is it the app version on windows 10 or
is it the desk top version for windows 10. There is another version
which I can not remember it was.


Most people use the desk top version but when you go into Skype its
self it is not changing into browse mode so use the nvda key + space
bar to do this. When it is in that mode you can use the letter F to
get down to the chats section then either use the space bar or enter
key then go down the page to read what is there.


The letter F will take you to form tabs, form fields etc in the desk
top version.

take

the app version you need to do a lot of tabbing so the desk top
version is much nicer to use.


Gene nz


On 29/10/2021 5:04 pm, Margus Ojaots wrote:

Hello. I have a problem with the lattest skype update. Once i open
skype, I can't see my recent chats.

Hi


Which version of Skype it it? is it the app version on windows 10 or is
it the desk top version for windows 10. There is another version which I
can not remember it was.


Most people use the desk top version but when you go into Skype its self
it is not changing into browse mode so use the nvda key + space bar to
do this. When it is in that mode you can use the letter F to get down to
the chats section then either use the space bar or enter key then go
down the page to read what is there.


The letter F will take you to form tabs, form fields etc in the desk top
version.

take

the app version you need to do a lot of tabbing so the desk top version
is much nicer to use.


Gene nz


On 29/10/2021 5:04 pm, Margus Ojaots wrote:

Hello. I have a problem with the lattest skype update. Once i open
skype, I can't see my recent chats.

Hello. I have a problem with the lattest skype update. Once i open
skype, I can't see my recent chats.

Well, whatever works! As long as it gets you by while waiting for someone to come help you.  I had an IBM think pad but it had windows 95.  How’s that for  aintchent?  It must be strange using old xp. 

Sent from Mail for Windows

An example:  While I'm awaiting sighted help to get this ASUS machine

going, I brought out my 15-year old IBM thinkpad that has windows xp,

JAWS 15, NVDA 2017, and some old firefox.  Not current, and it's slow,

but it keeps me going temporarily.  How about that?

Howard

On 10/30/2021 11:35 AM, John Isige wrote:

> 

> Do you need sighted assistance? You can generate install media from

> Windows, and when you boot from the media, you should be able to

> activate Narrator.

> 

> 

> On 10/30/2021 10:14 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 02:42 PM, Howard Traxler wrote:

>> 

>>     If you have other ideas, please suggest.

>> 

>> -

>> Given the history of this machine, I would suggest: */Doing a

>> Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool

>> to Create Bootable Win10 Install Media on a USB Thumb Drive/*

>> <https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1XBakbeS4WYPN3-O5ET5HIQO_Qey-g3XK>

>> 

>> You will end up needing sighted assistance because this process

>> involves some "pre-Windows being active" steps.   But it allows you

>> to wipe the machine completely clean and start entirely afresh with

>> the latest version of Windows.  You'll even have to set up your

>> account on the machine again.

>> 

>> --

>> 

>> Brian -Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043

>> 

>> *The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.*

>> 

>>          ~ John F. Kennedy

>> 

>

An example:  While I'm awaiting sighted help to get this ASUS machine

going, I brought out my 15-year old IBM thinkpad that has windows xp,

JAWS 15, NVDA 2017, and some old firefox.  Not current, and it's slow,

but it keeps me going temporarily.  How about that?

Howard

On 10/30/2021 11:35 AM, John Isige wrote:

> 

> Do you need sighted assistance? You can generate install media from

> Windows, and when you boot from the media, you should be able to

> activate Narrator.

> 

> 

> On 10/30/2021 10:14 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 02:42 PM, Howard Traxler wrote:

>> 

>>     If you have other ideas, please suggest.

>> 

>> -

>> Given the history of this machine, I would suggest: */Doing a

>> Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool

>> to Create Bootable Win10 Install Media on a USB Thumb Drive/*

>> <https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1XBakbeS4WYPN3-O5ET5HIQO_Qey-g3XK>

>> 

>> You will end up needing sighted assistance because this process

>> involves some "pre-Windows being active" steps.   But it allows you

>> to wipe the machine completely clean and start entirely afresh with

>> the latest version of Windows.  You'll even have to set up your

>> account on the machine again.

>> 

>> --

>> 

>> Brian -Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043

>> 

>> *The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.*

>> 

>>          ~ John F. Kennedy

>> 

>

Do you need sighted assistance? You can generate install media from Windows, and when you boot from the media, you should be able to activate Narrator.


On 10/30/2021 10:14 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 02:42 PM, Howard Traxler wrote:

If you have other ideas, please suggest.

-
Given the history of this machine, I would suggest: */Doing a Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool to Create Bootable Win10 Install Media on a USB Thumb Drive/* <https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1XBakbeS4WYPN3-O5ET5HIQO_Qey-g3XK>

You will end up needing sighted assistance because this process involves some "pre-Windows being active" steps.   But it allows you to wipe the machine completely clean and start entirely afresh with the latest version of Windows.  You'll even have to set up your account on the machine again.

--

Brian -Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043

*The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.*

         ~ John F. Kennedy

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 02:42 PM, Howard Traxler wrote:

If you have other ideas, please suggest.

-
Given the history of this machine, I would suggest: */Doing a Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool to Create Bootable Win10 Install Media on a USB Thumb Drive/* <https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1XBakbeS4WYPN3-O5ET5HIQO_Qey-g3XK>

You will end up needing sighted assistance because this process involves some "pre-Windows being active" steps.   But it allows you to wipe the machine completely clean and start entirely afresh with the latest version of Windows.  You'll even have to set up your account on the machine again.

--

Brian -Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043

*The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.*

         ~ John F. Kennedy

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 12:34 PM, John Isige wrote:

Do you need sighted assistance?

-
Yes.   Doing a completely clean reinstall involves changing the boot order in UEFI/BIOS to look for the USB media first in that order.  There is no screen reader support without an operating system (regardless of the operating system) so one needs sighted assistance on the rare occasions where one needs to deal with UEFI/BIOS.

Normally I'd suggest doing a Repair Install/Feature Update using the same media, but you must be able to boot into Windows 10 in order to do that.  And since this computer has not been fired up in years, and the password cannot be remembered (presuming it uses a local account - if it uses a Microsoft Account, you can change the password for that account on Microsoft.com and the change propagates down provided you're connected to the internet when you boot), and it has an ancient version of Windows 10 it just makes more sense to do what we in the business call a "Nuke and Pave" and have what amounts to an "out of the box" experience with the machine immediately afterward.
--

Brian -Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043

*The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.*

         ~ John F. Kennedy

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 12:34 PM, John Isige wrote:

Do you need sighted assistance?

-
Yes.   Doing a completely clean reinstall involves changing the boot order in UEFI/BIOS to look for the USB media first in that order.  There is no screen reader support without an operating system (regardless of the operating system) so one needs sighted assistance on the rare occasions where one needs to deal with UEFI/BIOS.

Normally I'd suggest doing a Repair Install/Feature Update using the same media, but you must be able to boot into Windows 10 in order to do that.  And since this computer has not been fired up in years, and the password cannot be remembered (presuming it uses a local account - if it uses a Microsoft Account, you can change the password for that account on Microsoft.com and the change propagates down provided you're connected to the internet when you boot), and it has an ancient version of Windows 10 it just makes more sense to do what we in the business call a "Nuke and Pave" and have what amounts to an "out of the box" experience with the machine immediately afterward.
--

Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043  

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

         ~ John F. Kennedy