Hi, I have a scanned image in an Adobe .pdf file. I want to run NVDA’s OCR over it. When I open the document in adobe Acrobat DC I get a message that this is a blank document. I press F6 twice

Hi, I know that user guide can be a bit vague on this, but based on discussion I had with NV Access people back in 2012 when these settings first made their appearance and experiences from Chinese,

Hello, Brian V. This is a setting in NVDA which assists w/the reading of Asian languages. You can find out a little more about it in the NVDA user guide in section 12.1.13. HTH? -- Subscribe to a

Changed the dynamic content setting to off and it made no difference.

David, Thanks for that, as I had not reviewed recent changes in the Commands Quick Reference, and would never have found this unless I had been specifically looking for something about

To add to Brian's message you can also press the NVDA key (usually the insert key) along with the number 5 (on the row of numbers and not on the numeric keypad) as a shortcut key to toggle

That's pretty much it. There are scads of NVDA settings that I do not really understand, for which I am unaware of specific documentation to read, and where the descriptions at the controls

Could this be in any way related to whether you have the "dynamic content" setting on? NVDA+N,P,S, then the "Object Presentation" pane, checkbox for Report dynamic content changes? (Default is

No. Just turn off speech, NVDA key s, type, then turn it on again. Press twice to turn it back on, once to turn it off. Gene

Hi all. You can also use the add-on Word Count. https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/wordCount.en.html Regards. Carlos Esteban Martínez Macías. Músico (pianista) y ayuda a usuarios

Hi Dave, This is controlled by the "Report role when mouse enters object" setting in NVDA's mouse settings, which is off by default. I'm not sure about this one. I thought it might be because

One work around for now would be to hit nvda plus s and type. If not, type it in note pad and then past, at least for now Take care all. -- Sarah Alawami, owner of TFFP. . For more info go to our

I come accross some web pages where there is a edit box that has a number of characters limitation.  While typing in these edit boxes the character count is voiced.  For example it will say 32

Working on accessibility features on website and using NVDA to check the results of my efforts. Can anyone explain why my firefox browser does not announce “graphic” or something like that

- I honestly can't remember if I did restart NVDA first or not. Since my machine "was due for a restart" anyway, it didn't bother me to do one. I agree, though, that exiting and restarting NVDA

Had you tried restarting NVDA before restarting your system? This sounds very like the weird problem wherein NVDA suddenly starts passing all keystrokes through to the application, and ignoring its

Hi everyone, In-process is out, featuring our chat with Anatoliy Popko on how they are using NVDA Certification in Russia, NVDACon 2020, and another tip on using some of the new features in NVDA

And, at least for the moment, the issue has disappeared after a restart. I'll never know what was up, but I'll keep an eye out for the issue to recur, and I hope it won't. These sorts of bizarre and

Gene, I was using Brave, but have the same issue in Chrome. I will check this again after restarting my system, just to make sure it's not something that is mysteriously cured via that

Just one more behavior that supports my contention that the links list shouldn't be used on unfamiliar pages. I'm not assuming you teach using the links list on unfamiliar pages but for those