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Re: Fluent Reader: a feature-rich and accessible Windows RSS reader
Hope Williamson
Oh, I just open 5000 windows every time. Lol it's really not that many,
it's probably only around 30. Therefore I really don't need it to give me the full article, because I'd be opening the window. I do this regardless of what reader I'm using.
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Re: Mostly used media player with NVDA
Hope Williamson
I use Foobar myself. I used Winamp for a while but it didn't seem like
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it was going anywhere.
On 9/23/2020 8:53 PM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
I use winamp for a lot of things but my chip formats have not changed
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Re: NVDA Speech delay after Computer is Idle
Gene
I don't know why that is. that appears to indicate a different problem than the one I pointed to.
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Gene
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From: Mária Orovčíková Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 8:13 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA does not work properly Hello again, the thing is that it also happens when a sound is playing (for example video or audio), it takes some time til NVDA starts working again after not being active. Maria On 24. 9. 2020 14:28, Gene wrote: If a computer has this problem, while this is unusual, in generel the problem occurs when the computer isn't used for a much shorter time, this page mauy have the solution.
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Re: NVDA Speech delay after Computer is Idle
Mária Orovčíková
Hello again,
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the thing is that it also happens when a sound is playing (for example video or audio), it takes some time til NVDA starts working again after not being active. Maria
On 24. 9. 2020 14:28, Gene wrote:
If a computer has this problem, while this is unusual, in generel the problem occurs when the computer isn't used for a much shorter time, this page mauy have the solution.
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Re: NVDA Speech delay after Computer is Idle
Gene
If a computer has this problem, while this is unusual, in generel the problem occurs when the computer isn't used for a much shorter time, this page mauy have the solution.
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https://mosen.org/soundsfrustrating/ You may want to read the article or skip to the part that discusses the specific solution I have in mind. To find the beginning of that specific section, search for Thanks so much to Gene
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From: Mária Orovčíková Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] NVDA does not work properly Hello list, I have some weird issue with NVDA. When I do not use my laptop for a longer period of time (half an hour and longer), but the laptop is stil on, and when I want to use it again, I pres any key, NVdA takes quite a long time to start speaking. I have Lenovo, Windows 10, latest NVDA version and I have screensavers, and standby mode disabled. Please, if anyone knows any workaround, let me know. Thank you very much for your help. Maria
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Re: Slack for Windows Accessibility
AKH AKH
Hi Sylvie
Great link for screen-reader tips, thanks.
Andrew
On 24/09/2020 13:04, Sylvie Duchateau
wrote:
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Re: Slack for Windows Accessibility
Sylvie Duchateau
Hello, I use the windows Slack app every day at work and it works rather fine. You can use f6 and shift+F6 to switch from the messages list, to the channels list or the message edit field. NVDA switches automatically in forms mode so that you can type your message, and it switches back to browse mode in other situations. With the automatic forms mode switching you can navigate through the messages with up and down arrow keys. Sometimes NVDA gets stuck because it cannot decide if enabling forms or browse mode, but in most situations, it works rather good. There is a useful help for you to learn how to use Slack with a screen reader : Use a screen reader on Slack on desktop, that provides helpful information. Best Sylvie De : nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> De la part de Luke Robinett via groups.io
I have to agree with the other person who replied. It’s absolutely doable but it’s a bit cumbersome at times. Once you get familiar with its quirks you do get used to it, and ultimately every area of the app is accessible.
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NVDA Speech delay after Computer is Idle
Mária Orovčíková
Hello list,
I have some weird issue with NVDA. When I do not use my laptop for a longer period of time (half an hour and longer), but the laptop is stil on, and when I want to use it again, I pres any key, NVdA takes quite a long time to start speaking. I have Lenovo, Windows 10, latest NVDA version and I have screensavers, and standby mode disabled. Please, if anyone knows any workaround, let me know. Thank you very much for your help. Maria
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Re: Spelling corrections not displayed when composing a message in Microsoft teams for windows
Rui Fontes
Hello!
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Last week I have tried with a costummer and the result was the same... Today I have tested and the context menu have worked as expected... Some changes in Teams itself? I don't know... Rui Fontes NVDA portuguese team Às 03:13 de 24/09/2020, Luke Robinett escreveu:
Anyone? Just curious if anyone is able to reproduce what I described in this email. Let me know if you need more info. Thanks.On Sep 21, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Luke Robinett via groups.io <blindgroupsluke=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Gmail Filter Setup - Specifically, for the NVDA Group Messages
Luke Davis
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Brian Vogel wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:54 PM, Luke Davis wrote:Hah. Okay, I think their more like what most other environments would call tags. I can kind of see it from Google's point of view, having needed to build virtual filesystems a time or two myself. When all that has really changed is the way you point to something, why go through the compute overhead of moving a potentially large file around? And if that file needs to be reached from several places at once, why have to keep multiple copies of it? Especially when you serve millions of users, juggling billions of messages, all those little compute savings, disk IO savings, and cache actions add up to dollars. And speaking of dollars, keep in mind that gmail's initial purpose, other than an ecosystem element, was to make advertising money for Google by allowing them to scan through all mail in gmail, to allow them to better target advertising to their users. That is made computationally much less taxing, if they can cut down on duplication of data, and the need to compare content against other content to make sure they don't mess up their keyword weighting by having the same identical message processed several times, just because someone has it in multiple folders. As much as I generally hate Google, I can admit the technical elegance of their solution. Luke
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Re: Mostly used media player with NVDA
I use winamp for a lot of things but my chip formats have not changed in ages and ages.
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There are a few things that winamp can't play but to be honest most chip stuff I get are remakes and mashups usually in mp3 as well as cross over chips. I like the interface of the winamp program to. Winamp is still aparently being developed but with its parent company becoming shoutcast, who knows. Its not been updated but winamp is on shoutcast's main page as a link, so its probably a given they havn't given up on it. However, winamp at least the version going on is wacup, or winamp community project, which is 5.666 with extras. To be honest though unless someone can revive, and update and add new things to a plugins database winamp is pritty much useless. The only reason I continue to use winamp is that I have ahd it since 2000 and have built up a stash of plugins and configurations I wanted to use.
On 24/09/2020 11:43 am, JM Casey wrote:
I will often praise foobar for audio playback, but, old habits die hard, and I also use winamp for most audio needs to this day.
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Re: Gmail Filter Setup - Specifically, for the NVDA Group Messages
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:54 PM, Luke Davis wrote:
Because they are labels.- OK, fine. If you want to adopt Google's mystery labels as being something real, be my guest. They're an excuse to obfuscate, as this entire discussion pretty much proves. They're as clear as mud, and as necessary as a screen door in a submarine. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 It’s hard waking up and realizing it’s not always black and white.
~ Kelley Boorn
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Re: Gmail Filter Setup - Specifically, for the NVDA Group Messages
Luke Davis
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Brian Vogel wrote:
is have a subject contains, using [nvda] as what it contains, and the actions being Skip Inbox and Apply Label where the label is your NVDA label (why GmailBecause they are labels. Gmail can have real folders (such as All Mail), and virtual folders, which someone has described as "constantly updating search windows". The virtual folders get their contents based on the labels selected, but the mail has to exist in some real folder in order to be searchable and have a label. That's why deleting a message from its real folder, deletes it from the virtual folder, because the virtual folders (label folders) don't hold any mail. That's my understanding, anyway. Luke -- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Re: Spelling corrections not displayed when composing a message in Microsoft teams for windows
Luke Robinett
Anyone? Just curious if anyone is able to reproduce what I described in this email. Let me know if you need more info. Thanks.
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On Sep 21, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Luke Robinett via groups.io <blindgroupsluke=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Slack for Windows Accessibility
Luke Robinett
I have to agree with the other person who replied. It’s absolutely doable but it’s a bit cumbersome at times. Once you get familiar with its quirks you do get used to it, and ultimately every area of the app is accessible.
On Sep 23, 2020, at 7:07 AM, Dzhovani <dzhovani.chemishanov@...> wrote:
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In-Process is out
Quentin Christensen
Hi everyone, Lots of little tidbits this week: NVDA 2020.3 Beta 2, the upcoming NVDACon, NV Access is hiring, we ask, "How has NVDA benefitted you?", we present the GSOC report and listen to NVDA in the charts! All in this week's In-Process: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-24th-september-2020/ Kind regards Quentin. Quentin Christensen Training and Support Manager Training: https://www.nvaccess.org/shop/ Certification: https://certification.nvaccess.org/ User group: https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
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Re: Mostly used media player with NVDA
Gene
I checked. You have to stop play, unselect it, then close the program. Trying to resume play after unselecting it makes the program crash as well as does trying to play a new file. Its an inconvenience but I don't use it much and it’s a minor one for me.
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The plugin used to work properly in XP, but not in Windows 7.
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From: Gene via groups.io Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:55 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA It should be noted that the accessible version of the plugin, the older one, causes NVDA to crash unless you unselect it before closing the program. I believe that you have to set it every time you use it, which is an inconvenience but not a major one. Gene -----Original Message----- From: JM Casey Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:43 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA I will often praise foobar for audio playback, but, old habits die hard, and I also use winamp for most audio needs to this day. That does sound like a good plugin, the variable pitch one... I don't think it's enough to make anyone switch but it's worth noting that VlC can do this natively/without plugins. Not sure if there is a hotkey pre-set for it though like there is for the compression feature (iE, decreasing speed without changing pitch etc). I use VLC for video playback, and for some audio formats that Winamp doesn't handle very well (some audio and video formats, Winamp cannot index properly, which means you can't really fast forward or rewind through a track) -----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: September 23, 2020 5:23 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA I know Winamp is widely used and is accessible. Other players are as well, but I'll let those who use them discuss them. I usually use Winamp. I'll tell you why I use Winamp in general and other list members may describe which players they like. When using NVDA, you don't have the time marker feature JAWS incorporated for use with Winamp. But there is a utility made by the late Carlos, who is much missed, that will allow you to set time markers with any screen-reader or even without one. It is completely independent of and doesn't require a screen-reader be used. Then, there is a plugin I use for slowing down or speeding up the speed of material. It doesn't keep the pitch constant, it slows down and speeds up speed as though you were using a variable speed control on a tape recorder or record player. That plugin is very useful to me. I digitized a lot of tapes and my tape recorder was running a little fast. I slow down the speed of the files when I play them in Winamp. They must be certain formats or the plugin doesn't work properly. I know MP3 will work, There may be others but I don't know what works and what doesn't. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Marco Oros Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:31 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA Hello dear NVDA users. I have a question. Which mediaplayer are You use with NVDA? Which media player is mostly accessible for users of NVDA? Thank You. Marco Oros
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Re: Mostly used media player with NVDA
Gene
It should be noted that the accessible version of the plugin, the older one, causes NVDA to crash unless you unselect it before closing the program. I believe that you have to set it every time you use it, which is an inconvenience but not a major one.
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From: JM Casey Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:43 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA I will often praise foobar for audio playback, but, old habits die hard, and I also use winamp for most audio needs to this day. That does sound like a good plugin, the variable pitch one... I don't think it's enough to make anyone switch but it's worth noting that VlC can do this natively/without plugins. Not sure if there is a hotkey pre-set for it though like there is for the compression feature (iE, decreasing speed without changing pitch etc). I use VLC for video playback, and for some audio formats that Winamp doesn't handle very well (some audio and video formats, Winamp cannot index properly, which means you can't really fast forward or rewind through a track) -----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: September 23, 2020 5:23 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA I know Winamp is widely used and is accessible. Other players are as well, but I'll let those who use them discuss them. I usually use Winamp. I'll tell you why I use Winamp in general and other list members may describe which players they like. When using NVDA, you don't have the time marker feature JAWS incorporated for use with Winamp. But there is a utility made by the late Carlos, who is much missed, that will allow you to set time markers with any screen-reader or even without one. It is completely independent of and doesn't require a screen-reader be used. Then, there is a plugin I use for slowing down or speeding up the speed of material. It doesn't keep the pitch constant, it slows down and speeds up speed as though you were using a variable speed control on a tape recorder or record player. That plugin is very useful to me. I digitized a lot of tapes and my tape recorder was running a little fast. I slow down the speed of the files when I play them in Winamp. They must be certain formats or the plugin doesn't work properly. I know MP3 will work, There may be others but I don't know what works and what doesn't. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Marco Oros Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:31 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA Hello dear NVDA users. I have a question. Which mediaplayer are You use with NVDA? Which media player is mostly accessible for users of NVDA? Thank You. Marco Oros
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Re: Mostly used media player with NVDA
JM Casey
I will often praise foobar for audio playback, but, old habits die hard, and I also use winamp for most audio needs to this day.
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That does sound like a good plugin, the variable pitch one... I don't think it's enough to make anyone switch but it's worth noting that VlC can do this natively/without plugins. Not sure if there is a hotkey pre-set for it though like there is for the compression feature (iE, decreasing speed without changing pitch etc). I use VLC for video playback, and for some audio formats that Winamp doesn't handle very well (some audio and video formats, Winamp cannot index properly, which means you can't really fast forward or rewind through a track)
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Sent: September 23, 2020 5:23 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA I know Winamp is widely used and is accessible. Other players are as well, but I'll let those who use them discuss them. I usually use Winamp. I'll tell you why I use Winamp in general and other list members may describe which players they like. When using NVDA, you don't have the time marker feature JAWS incorporated for use with Winamp. But there is a utility made by the late Carlos, who is much missed, that will allow you to set time markers with any screen-reader or even without one. It is completely independent of and doesn't require a screen-reader be used. Then, there is a plugin I use for slowing down or speeding up the speed of material. It doesn't keep the pitch constant, it slows down and speeds up speed as though you were using a variable speed control on a tape recorder or record player. That plugin is very useful to me. I digitized a lot of tapes and my tape recorder was running a little fast. I slow down the speed of the files when I play them in Winamp. They must be certain formats or the plugin doesn't work properly. I know MP3 will work, There may be others but I don't know what works and what doesn't. Gene -----Original Message----- From: Marco Oros Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:31 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA Hello dear NVDA users. I have a question. Which mediaplayer are You use with NVDA? Which media player is mostly accessible for users of NVDA? Thank You. Marco Oros
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Re: Mostly used media player with NVDA
JM Casey
More programmes should have foibles like this one It does seem to present a challenge for some though, or maybe just ore time than some are willing to put into setup
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Amir
Sent: September 23, 2020 5:46 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Mostly used media player with NVDA
Greetings. For me -- and many others, it is Foobar2000 all the way. I switched from Winamp which is no longer being developed other than the leaked releases which circulate around to Foobar2000 which is equally low-resource and quite well-maintained. Everything is customizable in Foobar2000 and that might also be its foible as you need to define your hot keys first. But once you do it, you can't be happier. Foobar2000 support is also mentioned in NVDA's manual.
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