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Re: Masked URLs in E-mail messages

Brian Vogel
 

Jonathan,

          What e-mail client are you using.  Generally, when one has focus on click-through text links the status bar at the bottom of the window frame will show the actual naked URL text.  The problem being that it will likely be impossible to maintain focus on both things at once, which is one of the conundrums associated with using a screen reader.

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Re: Masked URLs in E-mail messages

Jonathan Milam
 

That's correct, Gene. I was hoping that perhaps an add-on or keystroke
might be available that, when the keystroke was pressed, the URL would
appear in such a way as to allow the arrow keys to be used to validate its
legitimacy and Escape would close the dialog. This would eliminate copying
it to the clipboard, switching to a different window, pasting it and then
reading it and then closing that window and returning to the message.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 10:29 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Masked URLs in E-mail messages

Are you asking how to see the underlying address for something that might
say, for example, click here as a link? If you are on the link and open the
context menu, if your e-mail program has this feature, you will see
something like copy shortcut or copy link location, the wording will vary.
Press enter and the underlying link will be copied to the clipboard.

Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Milam
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 7:59 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Masked URLs in E-mail messages



Hi All,



Is it possible to quickly see a link in an e-mail message that has been
linked within a specific string of text and not just pasted directly into an
e-mail message with NVDA?


Thanks,

Jonathan
Re: Masked URLs in E-mail messages

Gene
 

Are you asking how to see the underlying address for something that might say, for example, click here as a link? If you are on the link and open the context menu, if your e-mail program has this feature, you will see something like copy shortcut or copy link location, the wording will vary. Press enter and the underlying link will be copied to the clipboard.

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Milam
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 7:59 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Masked URLs in E-mail messages



Hi All,



Is it possible to quickly see a link in an e-mail message that has been linked within a specific string of text and not just pasted directly into an e-mail message with NVDA?


Thanks,

Jonathan
Re: Navigating to a specific link when there are many on a webpage

Andy Jobben
 

Thank you all for the anwers.

I cant use the V because i sometimes use the other aswell.

but i will try using the search function like you have mentioned.
Re: NVDA reading names of selected files in a file list

Rui Fontes
 

Very strange!

Maybe some problem in manifest.ini...


Try this one:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1icqocjs6xztdh7/ZExplorer_1.0_Gen.nvda-addon?dl=1


Rui Fontes

NVDA portuguese team


Às 18:43 de 17/09/2020, Janet Brandly escreveu:

Hello Rui,

I just had a look at your addon and it doesn’t seem to be compatible with the latest stable version of NVDA. That’s unfortunate.

Janet

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rui Fontes
Sent: September 17, 2020 4:20 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading names of selected files

 

Hello Quentin!

 

Ther is a add-on, develloped by me, that allows the reading of status bar in Windows 10 File explorer...

You can get it at:

https://www.tiflotecnia.net/ZExplorer.nvda-addon

 

The option that I think Janet wants does not exist in NVDA, meaning that NVDA have no way to read the name of selected files...

 

Rui Fontes

NVDA portuguese team

 

 

Às 09:16 de 17/09/2020, Quentin Christensen escreveu:

Normally, as Gene noted, you should be able to use NVDA+end / NVDA+shift+end to read the status bar, however there is a bug preventing that from Working in File Explorer in Windows 10 - https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/6769

 

One thing you can do, is use NVDA's next and previous object commands (NVDA+numpad 4 / NVDA+shift+left arrow for previous, NVDA+numpad 6 / NVDA+shift+right arrow for next).  That will move object navigation through the items in the list.  One quirk is it won't announce "selected" for items which are selected, but will announce "not selected" for items which are not selected.  (It's not so much a bug as, 99% of the time people are moving through the list one item at a time and don't want to hear every item as selected).

 

Quentin.

 

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:39 PM Aravind R <aravind.andhrabank@...> wrote:

use tab and shift+tab to ensure you are in list view for selecting files.

On 17/09/2020, Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:
> I don't know what Windows 10 does, Windows 7 displays a status line you  can
>
> read that tells you the number of files selected.
>
> As I recall, the NVDA command to read what is selected only applies to
> text.
> Gene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet Brandly
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:27 PM
> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
> Subject: [nvda] Reading names of selected files
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I’m using the latest NVDA (not the beta) with windows 10 I’m trying to move
>
> some files from my downloads folder into my documents folder and using the
> shift + down-arrow keys to select them, but NVDA isn’t confirming that
> they’re
> selected when I use the “read selected text” command. Is there a better
> command to use to confirm that files are selected for moving, copying, ect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Janet
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


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email id : aravind_069@..., aravind.andhrabank@....
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Masked URLs in E-mail messages

Jonathan Milam
 

Hi All,

 

Is it possible to quickly see a link in an e-mail message that has been linked within a specific string of text and not just pasted directly into an e-mail message with NVDA?


Thanks,

Jonathan

 
Re: NVDA and security info

Afik Souffir
 

 

The customer service manager read about NVDA and said she thinks that’s ok.

As far as I know, there IT department did a security check on the NVDA install file.

But, they said they need to check my laptop and NVDA and decide if I'll work on my laptop or there computer.

 

Afik.

 

 

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Shaun Everiss
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 12:00 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and secuirity info

 

Well, as far as I understand, if their it allows you to securely login to their system, all they need is install your display drivers, nvda and addons you need on the system and thats it in admin mode.

If your laptop, they may just give you remote access but you will still need nvda installed on that system.

That is assuming they don't then say nvda is not secure because it is opensource and then ask you to jaws.

 

 

On 18/09/2020 8:38 pm, Afik Souffir wrote:

 

Hi,

 

Recently I found myself on many interviews for jobs. One of the questions I have to answer is: NVDA can work on secure system?

Such, organazations, companies, and such?

 

I read that the answer is yes, but I would like a clear answer here.

 

One of the companies ask me to go to them again, with my braille display and laptop, so they can check if NVDA is secure, and how I will work, with my laptop or on there.

 

 

Thanks for any answer.

 

Afik.

 
Re: NVDA and security info

Afik Souffir
 

 

Hi Bianka,

 

I'll need to be a customer service rep.

 

This specific company doesn't know screen reader at all, even whats braille display is.

So they ask me to come again after the holidays for security checks on my NVDA and they'll decide if I'll will work on my computer on there.

 

Do I have to install my Braille display driver? It's HIMS QBraille xl.

 

Afik.

 

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bianka Brankovic
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:51 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and secuirity info

 

Hello Afik,

 

I have been using NVDA for years now as my primary screenreader at work. The question is, what do the companies require exactly?

 

My computer at work is administered by the IT and I do not have admin privileges of any kind.

 

I never had issues with our security or antivirus systems while using NVDA.

 

As far as the legalities, this is certainly a question vor NVAccess. But I do know quite a few blind sysadmins who work with NVDA as well. From a practical perspective, there are no security concerns. However, the company has to be able and willing to allow open source software in their systems.

 

Thanks and kind regards,

 

Bianka

Re: NVDA and security info

Shaun Everiss
 

Well, as far as I understand, if their it allows you to securely login to their system, all they need is install your display drivers, nvda and addons you need on the system and thats it in admin mode.

If your laptop, they may just give you remote access but you will still need nvda installed on that system.

That is assuming they don't then say nvda is not secure because it is opensource and then ask you to jaws.



On 18/09/2020 8:38 pm, Afik Souffir wrote:

 

Hi,

 

Recently I found myself on many interviews for jobs. One of the questions I have to answer is: NVDA can work on secure system?

Such, organazations, companies, and such?

 

I read that the answer is yes, but I would like a clear answer here.

 

One of the companies ask me to go to them again, with my braille display and laptop, so they can check if NVDA is secure, and how I will work, with my laptop or on there.

 

 

Thanks for any answer.

 

Afik.

 
Re: NVDA and Zoom meetings with more than about 15 or 20 participants

Brian Moore
 

Hi Ralph.  Thanks for this. I will give it a try.

Brian.


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On 9/18/2020 2:27 AM, Ralf Kefferpuetz wrote:
Hello,
Make sure the Zoom meeting is maximized itself. Then when opening the participants list with Alt-U, press Windows-upArrow to maximize this window as well. I can arrow now the list of participants without any probs.
To mute all in the room press Alt-M, no need to mute participant by participant.
Cheers,
Ralf

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Moore
Sent: Freitag, 18. September 2020 04:17
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Zoom meetings with more than about 15 or 20 participants

Hi all. On saturday, I have to host a meeting with approximately 60 people. I find that for some reason, the participant list in a zoom meeting doesn't scroll properly. It will read the first 6 or 7 participants and then go silent. Maximizing the window helps some but still if there are more than about 15 or 20 participants, it looses focus or something. Has anyone been able to work around this? What if I have to mute the 40th participant because they have too much background noise which always seems to happen in larger groups?


Would be curious if anyone has found a way of dealing with this list when there are a lot of people.


Thanks.

Brian.
Re: NVDA and security info

Bianka Brankovic <bianka.brankovic@...>
 

Hello Afik,

 

I have been using NVDA for years now as my primary screenreader at work. The question is, what do the companies require exactly?

 

My computer at work is administered by the IT and I do not have admin privileges of any kind.

 

I never had issues with our security or antivirus systems while using NVDA.

 

As far as the legalities, this is certainly a question vor NVAccess. But I do know quite a few blind sysadmins who work with NVDA as well. From a practical perspective, there are no security concerns. However, the company has to be able and willing to allow open source software in their systems.

 

Thanks and kind regards,

 

Bianka

NVDA and security info

Afik Souffir
 

 

Hi,

 

Recently I found myself on many interviews for jobs. One of the questions I have to answer is: NVDA can work on secure system?

Such, organazations, companies, and such?

 

I read that the answer is yes, but I would like a clear answer here.

 

One of the companies ask me to go to them again, with my braille display and laptop, so they can check if NVDA is secure, and how I will work, with my laptop or on there.

 

 

Thanks for any answer.

 

Afik.

 
Re: NVDA and Zoom meetings with more than about 15 or 20 participants

Luke Davis
 

Brian

Ralf's solution is probably what you need. But since we're talking about Zoom, in case you didn't know, there is a new and very useful sounding Zoom add-on for NVDA. It doesn't seem that it will help you with your issue, but it may help in other areas.

https://addons.nvda-project.org/./addons/zoomEnhancements.en.html

Luke
Re: NVDA and Zoom meetings with more than about 15 or 20 participants

Ralf Kefferpuetz
 

Hello,
Make sure the Zoom meeting is maximized itself. Then when opening the participants list with Alt-U, press Windows-upArrow to maximize this window as well. I can arrow now the list of participants without any probs.
To mute all in the room press Alt-M, no need to mute participant by participant.
Cheers,
Ralf

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Moore
Sent: Freitag, 18. September 2020 04:17
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Zoom meetings with more than about 15 or 20 participants

Hi all. On saturday, I have to host a meeting with approximately 60 people. I find that for some reason, the participant list in a zoom meeting doesn't scroll properly. It will read the first 6 or 7 participants and then go silent. Maximizing the window helps some but still if there are more than about 15 or 20 participants, it looses focus or something. Has anyone been able to work around this? What if I have to mute the 40th participant because they have too much background noise which always seems to happen in larger groups?


Would be curious if anyone has found a way of dealing with this list when there are a lot of people.


Thanks.

Brian.

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Re: NVDA reading names of selected files in a file list

Quentin Christensen
 

Thanks Rui, that's handy!

And yes, all of these are workarounds for the original issue, which btw we do have an issue for: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/5005


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:20 PM Rui Fontes <rui.fontes@...> wrote:

Hello Quentin!


Ther is a add-on, develloped by me, that allows the reading of status bar in Windows 10 File explorer...

You can get it at:

https://www.tiflotecnia.net/ZExplorer.nvda-addon


The option that I think Janet wants does not exist in NVDA, meaning that NVDA have no way to read the name of selected files...


Rui Fontes

NVDA portuguese team



Às 09:16 de 17/09/2020, Quentin Christensen escreveu:
Normally, as Gene noted, you should be able to use NVDA+end / NVDA+shift+end to read the status bar, however there is a bug preventing that from Working in File Explorer in Windows 10 - https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/6769

One thing you can do, is use NVDA's next and previous object commands (NVDA+numpad 4 / NVDA+shift+left arrow for previous, NVDA+numpad 6 / NVDA+shift+right arrow for next).  That will move object navigation through the items in the list.  One quirk is it won't announce "selected" for items which are selected, but will announce "not selected" for items which are not selected.  (It's not so much a bug as, 99% of the time people are moving through the list one item at a time and don't want to hear every item as selected).

Quentin.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:39 PM Aravind R <aravind.andhrabank@...> wrote:
use tab and shift+tab to ensure you are in list view for selecting files.

On 17/09/2020, Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:
> I don't know what Windows 10 does, Windows 7 displays a status line you  can
>
> read that tells you the number of files selected.
>
> As I recall, the NVDA command to read what is selected only applies to
> text.
> Gene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet Brandly
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:27 PM
> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
> Subject: [nvda] Reading names of selected files
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I’m using the latest NVDA (not the beta) with windows 10 I’m trying to move
>
> some files from my downloads folder into my documents folder and using the
> shift + down-arrow keys to select them, but NVDA isn’t confirming that
> they’re
> selected when I use the “read selected text” command. Is there a better
> command to use to confirm that files are selected for moving, copying, ect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Janet
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


--


--
--
nothing is difficult unless you make it appear so.

r. aravind,

manager
Department of sales
bank of baroda specialised mortgage store, Chennai.
mobile no: +91 9940369593,
email id : aravind_069@..., aravind.andhrabank@....
aravind.rajendran@....







--
Quentin Christensen
Training and Support Manager



--
Quentin Christensen
Training and Support Manager
Re: NVDA reading names of selected files in a file list

Brian Vogel
 

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:52 PM, Janet Brandly wrote:
Window-Eyes used to do this.
-
Interesting.  While I did play with Window-Eyes, it was very, very briefly.  And once it was acquired by Freedom Scientific and deprecated I never touched it again.
 
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

          ~ Oscar Wilde

 
Re: NVDA reading names of selected files in a file list

Brian Vogel
 

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:27 PM, David Griffith wrote:
But Lucas has shown a method where  Jaws will announce  the 15th and 300th file if they are selected without  you having to arrow through.
-
Which is every bit as much a revelation to me as it was to you.  I could swear I've done what he instructed in the past, and it didn't do that.  This result is far more useful, that's for certain!
 
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041  

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

          ~ Oscar Wilde

 
NVDA and Zoom meetings with more than about 15 or 20 participants

Brian Moore
 

Hi all.  On saturday, I have to host a meeting with approximately 60 people.  I find that for some reason, the participant list in a zoom meeting doesn't scroll properly.  It will read the first 6 or 7 participants and then go silent.  Maximizing the window helps some but still if there are more than about 15 or 20 participants, it looses focus or something. Has anyone been able to work around this?  What if I have to mute the 40th participant because they have too much background noise which always seems to happen in larger groups?


Would be curious if anyone has found a way of dealing with this list when there are a lot of people.


Thanks.

Brian.

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Re: NVDA reading names of selected files in a file list

Janet Brandly
 

Hi Gene,
I'll give that a try. Hopefully this is something that can be looked into soon since I'm not the only one with this issue.
Thanks all,
Janet

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: September 17, 2020 7:17 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading names of selected files

Meantime, here is how you can tell which files are selected using NVDA.
After you select the files, hold control and go backk to the first one you selected. You can go farther up if you want, just keep holding control.
Keep holding control and move down. Any files that are unselected will say unselected after the name is announced. Any files that are selected won't say anything after the name. They don't say selected. But since you hear unselected, you will know if you didn't select anything you intended to or selected things you didn't intend to. If you come across a file that is selected or unselected by mistake, while on the filename, press the space bar while continuing to hold control. The file state will be changed and you will hear the current state announced..

Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: David Griffith
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 6:24 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading names of selected files

Dear Lucas

I have just tried this with Jaws and you are entirely correct.
I selected 6 non contiguous files, that is with control space to make sure that they were not adjacent to each other, and following your instructions of pressing Jaws plus shift plus down arrow Jaws did indeed read out a list of the files which had been selected, omitting all of the files which were not selected. I had no idea Jaws could do this even though I have used it for over 20 years so many thanks for educating me here.
I can see how this would be a useful feature in NVDA.

David G.
-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Lukasz Golonka
Sent: 17 September 2020 23:52
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading names of selected files

Hello,

I believe, though may be wrong about this since I haven't been using VoiceOver for a few years now that it is in deed possible to report what items are selected on a list after selection is done. On Windows JAWS can certainly report selected items on Windows Explorer list when pressing
JAWS+Shift_+Down arrow. For NVDA the same can be accomplished with an
JAWS+add-on
called Columns Review in this case the command to report selected items is
NVDA+Shift+Up arrow. This add-on is available from the official add-ons
website in the section for add-onns under development.

--
Regards
Lukasz
Re: NVDA reading names of selected files in a file list

Gene
 

Meantime, here is how you can tell which files are selected using NVDA. After you select the files, hold control and go backk to the first one you selected. You can go farther up if you want, just keep holding control.
Keep holding control and move down. Any files that are unselected will say unselected after the name is announced. Any files that are selected won't say anything after the name. They don't say selected. But since you hear unselected, you will know if you didn't select anything you intended to or selected things you didn't intend to. If you come across a file that is selected or unselected by mistake, while on the filename, press the space bar while continuing to hold control. The file state will be changed and you will hear the current state announced..

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: David Griffith
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 6:24 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading names of selected files

Dear Lucas

I have just tried this with Jaws and you are entirely correct.
I selected 6 non contiguous files, that is with control space to make sure that they were not adjacent to each other, and following your instructions of pressing Jaws plus shift plus down arrow Jaws did indeed read out a list of the files which had been selected, omitting all of the files which were not selected. I had no idea Jaws could do this even though I have used it for over 20 years so many thanks for educating me here.
I can see how this would be a useful feature in NVDA.

David G.
-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Lukasz Golonka
Sent: 17 September 2020 23:52
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading names of selected files

Hello,

I believe, though may be wrong about this since I haven't been using VoiceOver for a few years now that it is in deed possible to report what items are selected on a list after selection is done. On Windows JAWS can certainly report selected items on Windows Explorer list when pressing JAWS+Shift_+Down arrow. For NVDA the same can be accomplished with an add-on called Columns Review in this case the command to report selected items is NVDA+Shift+Up arrow. This add-on is available from the official add-ons website in the section for add-onns under development.

--
Regards
Lukasz
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