Hello Jacques,

Thank you for your reply, I have read your user guide and have one
question about my particular system.
I am using Windows ten anniversary edition, my soundcard is a
Soundblaster Z.

At the moment I have a problem where I have no speech, sighted people
have confirmed that the card is not muted and, as the computer is
under
warrenty, it will be looked at tomorrow.

That being said, will your program bring back speech when I lose it?
assuming that any problem is sorted first of course.
I am really only interested in getting some sound back if someone
mutes
it or reducers the volume to zero. I am not sure if your program will
do
this or if it stops the sound from being muted or reduced in the first
place. As you will realise now, the old Quick mix just took a
snapshot
of the soundcard and a hot key or desktop icon could be used to
restore
the settings?
In simple terms can you explain what happens with your program.

I do appreciate people like you who give of their time to help others,
whatever the outcome for me, have a very happy festive season and all
good luck for the new year.




Best Regards, Jim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 10:51 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] soundcard add on

Hi Jim

I wasn't familiar with Quick Mix, but Googled it quickly to see what
it
offered on XP.

I wrote a collection of utilities over the last year or so, which I
call
Stascom Utility Suite. At this point it will recover sound to a
pre-defined level and unmute the default sound card if it became muted
by an event. You can also define day / night volumes to be switched to
at user defined times. At this point it does not load application
specific profiles, but that might just be something I'll look into for
a
future release.

Should you be interested, you can read the user guide and download the
installer from my web page:

http://www.stascom.co.za



Jacques

On 18 Dec 2016 12:25, The Gamages wrote:

Hello all,
I believe someone made an addon to save soundcard settings, I missed
the
thread on this subject, is it anything like the old “quick mix” for
XP?
that was a brilliant program.
does it take a snapshot of the soundcard, or is it a bit more
complicated?
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Best Regards, Jim.

Hi, everyone,

 

What is the keystroke for audio ducking in NVDA? I was going on a site to listen to something and the sound was lower than normal.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Rosemarie

 

 

Hello Jacques,

Just to be clear to my simple brain, I take it that nobody can mute or
reduce the sound below the level set?, this would suit me fine, if the
mute status or level can still be changed, at what point will it
return
to the set values?
Sorry to sound so thick, I just want to get it clear in my mind. Thank
you.




Best Regards, Jim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:49 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] soundcard add on

Hi Jim

My program monitors the default audio device and will unmute it if it
becomes muted in any way. It also monitors for low volume and recovers
it, once again, should it fall below a certain level. Both the minimum
volume, as well as the level it will recover to, is user configurable.
The user do not need to press any hot key for this to happen, it is
automated. As is stated in my user guide, it can only perform these
actions if the hardware is in tact and the correct drivers are
installed, of course.

Bottom line, if your hardware is not faulty and the correct drivers
are
installed, Stascom will unmute and recover volume on the default sound
card automatically, no problem.

I'm currently in the process of adding more functionality to the
program. Once I've completed it and it's done its rounds via my beta
testers, I'll post the update. I should also mention that if you have
the version installed which currently is on my web site, it will
notify
you of any future release, provided you are connected to the internet,
naturally. The check for an update will happen when the program
launches
at startup, but there's also an option for a manual check under the
menu
hot key, control+Windows+m.

Thanks for your kind words, a good festive season to you too.

Jacques

On 18 Dec 2016 15:41, The Gamages wrote:

Hello Jacques,

Thank you for your reply, I have read your user guide and have one
question about my particular system.
I am using Windows ten anniversary edition, my soundcard is a
Soundblaster Z.

At the moment I have a problem where I have no speech, sighted people
have confirmed that the card is not muted and, as the computer is
under
warrenty, it will be looked at tomorrow.

That being said, will your program bring back speech when I lose it?
assuming that any problem is sorted first of course.
I am really only interested in getting some sound back if someone
mutes
it or reducers the volume to zero. I am not sure if your program will
do
this or if it stops the sound from being muted or reduced in the
first
place. As you will realise now, the old Quick mix just took a
snapshot
of the soundcard and a hot key or desktop icon could be used to
restore
the settings?
In simple terms can you explain what happens with your program.

I do appreciate people like you who give of their time to help
others,
whatever the outcome for me, have a very happy festive season and all
good luck for the new year.




Best Regards, Jim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 10:51 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] soundcard add on

Hi Jim

I wasn't familiar with Quick Mix, but Googled it quickly to see what
it
offered on XP.

I wrote a collection of utilities over the last year or so, which I
call
Stascom Utility Suite. At this point it will recover sound to a
pre-defined level and unmute the default sound card if it became
muted
by an event. You can also define day / night volumes to be switched
to
at user defined times. At this point it does not load application
specific profiles, but that might just be something I'll look into
for
a
future release.

Should you be interested, you can read the user guide and download
the
installer from my web page:

http://www.stascom.co.za



Jacques

On 18 Dec 2016 12:25, The Gamages wrote:

Hello all,
I believe someone made an addon to save soundcard settings, I missed
the
thread on this subject, is it anything like the old “quick mix” for
XP?
that was a brilliant program.
does it take a snapshot of the soundcard, or is it a bit more
complicated?
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Best Regards, Jim.

Gene,

           What I'm looking to determine right now is how, if anyone is doing it, people actually read through topics/threads, more than anything else.

           One specific thing I'm curious about is when you're on the messages page, in topics view, and you use NVDA + F7 to list the link elements is there a way to navigate to the "tree view" entries in the link list?  There is no label text, there are two tree view entries that show up immediately before the actual links for topics themselves and user profiles (where those exist) begin.  I suspect that it might be more efficient to look at the topics page by heading rather than links.

            In my case, on the actual topic page where all the messages are listed for a given topic I show these in reverse chronological order (most recent message shown at first working its way down the page to oldest) since when I'm following specific threads I read them with great frequency and don't want to have to scroll down the page a long distance to find the newest entries.  What I'm having trouble with is actually getting the message text that someone has posted to read if I don't resort to mouse tracking which, of course. someone who's typically using a screen reader is not going to do.  I can't seem to get focus on the message text itself in the individual messages via the keyboard and I suspect it's something "very stupid" that I'm doing or failing to do, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that is.

            I know that on one of the other blind and low-vision groups I participate on that someone is reading via the web interface, but I believe it's with JAWS rather than NVDA, so I thought I'd ask here because there are just enough differences that it could be significant.

            I plan on sticking to this thread for this conversation.  And, just because I've asked about this capability with regard to my own moderation practices soon to be put into action, it is possible to merge threads that have been accidentally (or deliberately, but unnecessarily) split.  I have yet to play with this, though.
--
Brian

 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

         ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

Gene,

           What I'm looking to determine right now is how, if anyone is doing it, people actually read through topics/threads, more than anything else.

           One specific thing I'm curious about is when you're on the messages page, in topics view, and you use NVDA + F7 to list the link elements is there a way to navigate to the "tree view" entries in the link list?  There is no label text, there are two tree view entries that show up immediately before the actual links for topics themselves and user profiles (where those exist) begin.  I suspect that it might be more efficient to look at the topics page by heading rather than links.

            In my case, on the actual topic page where all the messages are listed for a given topic I show these in reverse chronological order (most recent message shown at first working its way down the page to oldest) since when I'm following specific threads I read them with great frequency and don't want to have to scroll down the page a long distance to find the newest entries.  What I'm having trouble with is actually getting the message text that someone has posted to read if I don't resort to mouse tracking which, of course. someone who's typically using a screen reader is not going to do.  I can't seem to get focus on the message text itself in the individual messages via the keyboard and I suspect it's something "very stupid" that I'm doing or failing to do, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that is.

            I know that on one of the other blind and low-vision groups I participate on that someone is reading via the web interface, but I believe it's with JAWS rather than NVDA, so I thought I'd ask here because there are just enough differences that it could be significant.

            I plan on sticking to this thread for this conversation.  And, just because I've asked about this capability with regard to my own moderation practices soon to be put into action, it is possible to merge threads that have been accidentally (or deliberately, but unnecessarily) split.  I have yet to play with this, though.
--
Brian

 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

         ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

Gene,

           What I'm looking to determine right now is how, if anyone is doing it, people actually read through topics/threads, more than anything else.

           One specific thing I'm curious about is when you're on the messages page, in topics view, and you use NVDA + F7 to list the link elements is there a way to navigate to the "tree view" entries in the link list?  There is no label text, there are two tree view entries that show up immediately before the actual links for topics themselves and user profiles (where those exist) begin.  I suspect that it might be more efficient to look at the topics page by heading rather than links.

            In my case, on the actual topic page where all the messages are listed for a given topic I show these in reverse chronological order (most recent message shown at first working its way down the page to oldest) since when I'm following specific threads I read them with great frequency and don't want to have to scroll down the page a long distance to find the newest entries.  What I'm having trouble with is actually getting the message text that someone has posted to read if I don't resort to mouse tracking which, of course. someone who's typically using a screen reader is not going to do.  I can't seem to get focus on the message text itself in the individual messages via the keyboard and I suspect it's something "very stupid" that I'm doing or failing to do, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that is.

            I know that on one of the other blind and low-vision groups I participate on that someone is reading via the web interface, but I believe it's with JAWS rather than NVDA, so I thought I'd ask here because there are just enough differences that it could be significant.

            I plan on sticking to this thread for this conversation.  And, just because I've asked about this capability with regard to my own moderation practices soon to be put into action, it is possible to merge threads that have been accidentally (or deliberately, but unnecessarily) split.  I have yet to play with this, though.
--
Brian

 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

         ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

Hi Gene If you sign up for Drop Box news letters. They send them to you. I have’nt signed up. But friends who did sent me messages saying that your public folder is going private as of March 15 next year. 

Hi.
Hmmm maybe dropbox crashed, it appears that everything works now as I
expected.
Dropbox.com stopped working for a little but is now back.
If it was a failier then false alarm.
If it was dropbox responding to everyone ranting at them, then I can't
complain.
I just hope they don't mangle it all again because I wasn't happy about it.
It seems that it works though as it should with direct downloads, as
long as that works I won't have to bother about their inaccessible
webpage which I can't seem to get things to work on.

Gene,

           What I'm looking to determine right now is how, if anyone is doing it, people actually read through topics/threads, more than anything else.

           One specific thing I'm curious about is when you're on the messages page, in topics view, and you use NVDA + F7 to list the link elements is there a way to navigate to the "tree view" entries in the link list?  There is no label text, there are two tree view entries that show up immediately before the actual links for topics themselves and user profiles (where those exist) begin.  I suspect that it might be more efficient to look at the topics page by heading rather than links.

            In my case, on the actual topic page where all the messages are listed for a given topic I show these in reverse chronological order (most recent message shown at first working its way down the page to oldest) since when I'm following specific threads I read them with great frequency and don't want to have to scroll down the page a long distance to find the newest entries.  What I'm having trouble with is actually getting the message text that someone has posted to read if I don't resort to mouse tracking which, of course. someone who's typically using a screen reader is not going to do.  I can't seem to get focus on the message text itself in the individual messages via the keyboard and I suspect it's something "very stupid" that I'm doing or failing to do, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that is.

            I know that on one of the other blind and low-vision groups I participate on that someone is reading via the web interface, but I believe it's with JAWS rather than NVDA, so I thought I'd ask here because there are just enough differences that it could be significant.

            I plan on sticking to this thread for this conversation.  And, just because I've asked about this capability with regard to my own moderation practices soon to be put into action, it is possible to merge threads that have been accidentally (or deliberately, but unnecessarily) split.  I have yet to play with this, though.
--
Brian

 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

         ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

----- Original Message -----

From: Gene

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 10:11 PM

Subject: Re: [nvda] Any NVDA user(s) reading this group or any other via the Groups.io web interface?

there may be a small number of people using the web interface.  I've used the interface very rarely to look something up and to perform moderation.  What questions do you have?  I might be able to answer at least some of them by looking at the web interface and trying to do whatever you are asking about efficiently. 

 

while the thread is specialized as to subject, it may present useful discussion for Internet navigation that may help some people navigate web pages better. 

 

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

From: Brian Vogel

Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 6:51 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: [nvda] Any NVDA user(s) reading this group or any other via the Groups.io web interface?

If so I have some questions about how you choose to navigate the Messages page for a Groups.io group and to read the actual topic threads themselves when you open them.

I really don't know if this topic is appropriate, or of interest, for public discussion here.  If it is not, will the group owner or moderator please post saying that this sort of discussion should be taken off-list.

It's definitely NVDA related, but in a very specific context.
--
Brian

 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

         ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

    

If so I have some questions about how you choose to navigate the Messages page for a Groups.io group and to read the actual topic threads themselves when you open them.

I really don't know if this topic is appropriate, or of interest, for public discussion here.  If it is not, will the group owner or moderator please post saying that this sort of discussion should be taken off-list.

It's definitely NVDA related, but in a very specific context.
--
Brian

 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

         ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

Hi.
Hmmm maybe dropbox crashed, it appears that everything works now as I
expected.
Dropbox.com stopped working for a little but is now back.
If it was a failier then false alarm.
If it was dropbox responding to everyone ranting at them, then I can't
complain.
I just hope they don't mangle it all again because I wasn't happy about it.
It seems that it works though as it should with direct downloads, as
long as that works I won't have to bother about their inaccessible
webpage which I can't seem to get things to work on.

Hi,

Have everyone send you dl=0 links, and you can download them directly without going into drop box at all. Changing that 1 to a 0 is so important.

Take care,

David Moore

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Hi all.

Dropbox has decided to disable public folders, not a problem for us

basic users.

I don't use them anyway.

Sadly they have also disabled web page renders.

That in itself while not ideal is not usually an issue.

However it appears to have broken every other render.

For example the dl=1 links don't work, I had to sign in and save 2 files

from a twitter to my dropbox which I then killed again after I was done.

I then tried my own links, same thing they didn't work just said page

not found.

I then decided ok lets try the direct method.

I hit in both ie11 and latest firefox, 1,  hit the download button.

Nothing, hit the more options menu in firefox selected direct download.

Nothing happened, nothing in my downloads list.

As a platform, I really like dropbox its been my rock for ages and ages.

However I don't want to be forced to have to save all the files I get to

my folder or to put it another way I don't want to have to force

everyone that gets my files to have to sign in to a dropbox account.

There is probably a way to get things but things are not that accessible.

I have used dropbox since year 0!

But I will have no choice but to clear dropbox and only use it for shares.

True I have mega because I needed to use it for a large file, and true I

could get another free cloud solution but really.

I refuse to pay just to have the facility to download a file!

I am a basic user, I don't care about rendering webpages, I just want to

be able to play audio files which sadly just error out in both ff and ie

and or download them so I can play them in winamp and anything else I have.

I could use google drive but my beef with this is that like dropbox the

page for downloads isn't much better.

The way dropbox seems to have gone, I am not sure what I can do, I may

signup to dropbox forum and or try to contact them directly but if

someone can see different things than I can well

look at this here link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oqodz6nmmf2hx2/soundrecorder.7z?dl=1

That won't work.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oqodz6nmmf2hx2/soundrecorder.7z?dl=0

this will, its just the sound recorder from xp, I was able to click the

more options menu then direct download, then I was able to click download.

Am I missing an important thing or what.

Can you get the file without saving to dropbox on your side.

If the answer is no, I will probably have to use mega for files or

google drive.

I hate the google drive download pages but they work enough for downloads.

I am pritty sure a damn sightling can download the file.

I am not sure if dropbox cares at this point.