Hello season users of screen readers!
Advice me on this. I'm a student and require to read large texts on regular basis. Although, this is something I love doing, it would be very beneficial if I could improve my reading, or shall I say listening speed, with NVDA. I would like to retain the same level of comprehension I have right now at higher speeds. I have gradually moved up my way to 95% without boost in NVDA, so I know it could be done. But, I'm finding it difficult to move forward. Also, beyond 95% and in boost mode Espeak MAx starts to flutter. It is still very comprehensible, but the fluttering voice is annoying. Can you guys suggest me ways to upgrade my listening game? Do I need to switch to a different variant voice of Espeak or shall I change my synthesizer? Is there a cap to how fast can we listen?
All suggestions are welcome!
Also let me know at what speed rates do you guys read your screen readers on/

Regards

I have not looked lately to know what this add on is, but it used to
actually say that it would only work on machines where a free to use version
of the synth was installed. This would indicate to me that its either Via
Voice or a very old copy  used with Jaws prehistoric versions!

If the add on is very old it may not even work on newer versions of nvda in
any case. I think the site does hove abandoned and older versions of all
sorts of bits and pieces and really any of them are truly at the users own
risk. we here cannot condone their use as we have no idea where a lot of
them come from.
 Brian

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene" <gsasner@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Jeff's addon repository


That isn't a legal add on.  Eloquence can be purchased legally.  There is a
SAPI5 version that can work with any program that supports SAPI5 speech and
there is a legal add on that can be purchased.  The add on, however, has
very poor speech because the Eloquence speech has a lot of artifacts.  The
SAPI 5 version doesn't have these artifacts.

There are demos of both Eloquence speech programs available so you can try
them.

But regarding your original question, the list doesn't offer support on
illegal software as a matter of list policy.

Gene
----- Original Message -----

From: Sociohack AC
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 3:03 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Jeff's addon repository


Hi!
I'm new to all this. Somebody suggested to use eloquence addon for NVDA.
It's available on this website called, Jeff's Repository. Is is  safe to
download from there?

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Regards,
Sociohack

"Doable" and "accessible"? I guess in a broad and technical sense, yes, but not in any efficient or practical sort of manner.

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene New Zealand
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 5:15 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Twitter on a windows 10 machine

By the way i for got to say i heard it can be done through the browser has any one done it that way? is it fully accessible and also has any one done a tutorial on using it with nvda?


Gene nz



On 7/16/2018 11:57 AM, Gene New Zealand wrote:

Hi guys


Is any one on this list using the windows twitter app? is it accessible?
or not really?


If it is accessible and people are using it has any one else written a
tutorial on using it or setting up also a twitter account etc in the
tutorial?

If they have could they send it on to me.


I have heard some third party twitter apps will not work after a
certain period of time some thing to do with changes with twitter is
this one of them?

Any help would be great.


Apart from setting up a twitter account and looking at this app i have
not gone any further.



Gene nz

Pictures do not look so great on it. It’s optimised for mobile use, as the name implies. If you send him a link, next time just replace the “m” with “www” in the url.

Funny though, I always use the mobile site too, and it works well, and I sent a link to my sighted brother to have him look at the picture to see if this was our cousin, and he said the link I sent him gave him a page that was messed up on his computer.  He said it was a page for a person with that name, but he could not make sense of it.

So maybe the mobile site is not good for people not using a screenreader.

Hi guys!

The mobile site of Facebook,

m.facebook.com

works the very best in IE 11

That is the only site I use in IE LOL! I like it better than Firefox, Even.

I have tried using Chrome and Edge for using the mobile site, and it is a lot different.

It is tricky LOL!

Have a great one, guys!

David Moore

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Hi, I know exactly what you mean, for that reason I use Firefox, it actually works. 

Warm regards, Claire Potter, Check out my brand new website: http://www.pottersplace.me.uk/

Hi folks

I am making my first steps with chrome.

I find that sometimes buttons and elements are not clickable in m.facebook.com and that the tab key is not always responding normally.

F.e. if you click on a friend and wants him or her to be defriended, you can’t find that item or click the friend or follow button. I have already changed some settings like adding some accessibility tools to read webpages with the arrow keys and disabled the hardware accelerators which often is advised when working with screenreaders.

Regards

Davy

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Giles Turnbull
Sent: 15 July 2018 21:07
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Is NVDA colourblind?

Hello all,

I'm curious whether NVDA is colour blind. I have noticed this with two emoticons now, both of them involving hearts.

This one, ❤️, is spoken as "heavy black heart" and this one, ♥, as "black heart"

Having consulted sighted friends I have now described them as red heart in my NVDA default dictionary, but is this an NVDA glitch? I initially assumed it was a Facebook glitch because it was only there where I noticed the first one, but today I am reading a poetry book with one poem that is titled I ♥ NY in both the PDF and the text file I coppied the text into.

When I move word by word or use read line or say all I hear what I have programmed into the dictionary, but if I go character by character then I hear the black heart version.

I do currently have Chris Leo's Emoticons addin enabled, but didn't when I first heard the heavy black heart emoticon. The addin has not changed anything about the description of heavy black heart and I suspect it wouldn't change anything about the black heart if I uninstalled the addin.

Most of the time I don't care enough to check with a sighted person whether the emoticon that is described does indeed resample what NVDA describes it as, but with things like a black heart, which to me implied love in a sad situation such as after a death, it can be rather unsettling to learn that the emoticon is not as described. It was exactly that situation where I discovered the incorrect description. One of my friends used waht NVDA described to me as a heavy black heart and, when I asked whether the black heart was an indication of sadness, she told me that it was in fact a red heart.

Giles
 

Hi guys


Is any one on this list using the windows twitter app? is it accessible?
or not really?


If it is accessible and people are using it has any one else written a
tutorial on using it or setting up also a twitter account etc in the
tutorial?

If they have could they send it on to me.


I have heard some third party twitter apps will not work after a certain
period of time some thing to do with changes with twitter is this one of
them?

Any help would be great.


Apart from setting up a twitter account and looking at this app i have
not gone any further.



Gene nz

Hi Group,

With all this talk about Microsoft Edge recently, I am intrigued by the one main flaw that I see. All major navigation items seem to work quite well such as headings, tables, lists, list items, combo boxes, buttons and edit fields. Of course as mentioned previously, the visited and unvisited links function does not work. If this is somehow ever fixed, Edge will work great. It gives great feedback for open dialogues, the notification bar, the save/save as dialogues and so on.

I wonder if some sort of add on could be set up to solve this one significant issue.

--
They Ask Me If I'm Happy; I say Yes.
They ask: "How Happy are You?"
I Say: "I'm as happy as a stow away chimpanzee on a banana boat!"

To a sighted person, the ALT+TAB looks completely different and has a
completely new look and feel. Sadly, it also confuses screen access
technology.


On 7/15/2018 12:51 AM, John Isige wrote:
> Cool. But what are the differences, do you know? I mean, if it weren't
> for this issue, I'd have no idea that they changed anything. It appears,
> on the surface, to work exactly as it always has.
>
>
> On 7/14/2018 21:19, Richard Wells wrote:
>> John: It returned the ALT+TAB function to the way it worked in
>> previous Windows revisions.
>>
>>
>> On 7/14/2018 9:06 PM, John Isige wrote:
>>> What does it do? I mean I accept that it's solved the problem for you,
>>> but why?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/14/2018 18:22, Richard Wells wrote:
>>>> I cured this by adding the following key and value to my registry:
>>>>
>>>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
>>>> "AltTabSettings"=dword:00000001
>>>>
>>>> If you just want a .reg file for merging this into your registry, open
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ju6rmd6go0pyune/AltTabSettings.reg?dl=1 and
>>>> get it that way. Of course, you should back up your registry before
>>>> making this change, though I have modified several Windows 10
>>>> computers with this. Again, this advice is free and you get what you
>>>> pay for.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/14/2018 2:42 PM, George McCoy wrote:
>>>>>    Hi John,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the same problem.  You have described it perfectly. It
>>>>> certainly is annoying.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running windows 10 pro 64 bit on a HP Elitebook 8440W.
>>>>>
>>>>> George
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: John Isige
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2018 12:46 PM
>>>>> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
>>>>> Subject: [nvda] NVDA focus problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all. I've noticed this for a couple of versions of both NVDA and
>>>>> Windows 10. When I switch windows with alt-tab, it seems like NVDA
>>>>> doesn't get full focus. For example, suppose I'm listening to a
>>>>> track,
>>>>> so I have two windows open, a Windows Explorer window with files, and
>>>>> Foobar 2000, or Winamp, or whatever media player I'm using. I want to
>>>>> alt-tab, let's say to turn repeat on or off or to see how much time
>>>>> remains in the file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If I do that, it seems like the commands work, but NVDA doesn't
>>>>> read the
>>>>> window. For instance, right now if I play a song and alt-tab to
>>>>> Winamp's
>>>>> window, i can hit keys and they work, e.g. 'v' to stop, 'x' to
>>>>> play. But
>>>>> if I read the window title with NVDA-t, it says "explorer". The
>>>>> title is
>>>>> read correctly with alt-tab, but when I release alt-tab, I seem to be
>>>>> both in the window, and not in the window, as it were. The commands
>>>>> for
>>>>> the program work, but NVDA things, e.g. hitting ctrl-shift-r in
>>>>> Winamp
>>>>> or Foobar to get the remaining time, don't.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to fix this? A different screen resolution or
>>>>> something?
>>>>> In theory mine's set to 1024/768, unless Windows changed it after an
>>>>> update. BTW this gets fixed if I alt-tab back to another window,
>>>>> release
>>>>> alt-tab until that window comes up, and then alt-tab back to the
>>>>> other
>>>>> window, Foobar or whatever. When I do that it reads like it should
>>>>> and
>>>>> NVDA commands work and all. That's nothing earth-shattering of
>>>>> course,
>>>>> but it is fairly annoying, since it happens on a regular basis.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

It's not that NVDA is colorblind, but that the emoji database is ridden with anachronisms.  See:

https://emojipedia.org/heavy-black-heart/     and    https://www.emojibase.com/emoji/2764/heavyblackheart 

Which, while heavy, is absolutely not black.  It seems that NVDA is reading the terminology that was approved way back in 1993 when this emoji was officially approved, and that the naming was never changed even though the graphic that goes with it certainly has.

--

Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134  

    A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

           ~ Richard Dehmel

 

 

Hi guys


Is any one on this list using the windows twitter app? is it accessible?
or not really?


If it is accessible and people are using it has any one else written a
tutorial on using it or setting up also a twitter account etc in the
tutorial?

If they have could they send it on to me.


I have heard some third party twitter apps will not work after a
certain period of time some thing to do with changes with twitter is
this one of them?

Any help would be great.


Apart from setting up a twitter account and looking at this app i have
not gone any further.



Gene nz