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Punctuation and Symbols
Pele West
Hi Everyone
Please could someone tell me how to change the names of some of the punctuation symbols? for example, I would like ! to say Exclamation Mark rather than Bang, but not if it is at the end of a word. I have tried changing the names in the Punctuation Settings but they don't seem to change. Thanks Pele West
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Re: Windows PE ISO file with NVDA installed
Thanks jean, I don't personally need the pe images myself but its good you have them. I'd actually be interested in making my own if it came to that. But bar failing windows updates, the way I have things is mostly standard, but I have few tweaks I need to have active.
On 28/04/2020 5:33 pm, hurrikennyandopo
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Re: Windows PE ISO file with NVDA installed
To be honest, tweaking excessively could be dangerous. There are some tweaks in winaero tweaker I do not use because it makes my system unstable and I have to backtrack at best, and clean install at worst. I just apply what I absolutely need. Surprisingly thats quite little. I turn uac off completely because I need to modify files say game tracks, winamp plugins in program files folders which I can not do that easily with uac on. I disable ribbons because I don't like ribbons. I set a few misc things but I don't need much more than 5 tweaks, at least 3 of them I deem essential but thats about it. I do have a little hack allowing me to use extra voices from cortana but thats about it. I do not generally fiddle with the registry I don't even clean it. But what if your work needs you to muck about like this. If you truely need to do this on your system you use daily for your personal and work stuff and thats the choice you have, then add all your tweaks you really need into a batch file or several batch files, zip em and put them to a cloud share. You can take images of the os but I am not sure about accessible restores. If you can afford it, II'd either run vmware workstation or something. Now I must admit, thats not completely ideal and accessible. You need to buy workstation if you want to test xp for example the player doesn't cut it. And you need resources hardware and such to allow for officient running etc. Failing that, I'd buy a system to monkey on. I plan either to have a system like this in the future to test stuff or a server with a lot of vms on it. Vms can be coppied. A system where its not crutial to have the system always working is probably better but you will have to buy a system of course. Now there are ways to get older systems from ebay that are cheap if you just want to see what this button does, find if it breaks, and so on. If it breaks, then reformat and do it again. I sadly do not have that sort of system, though with the selling of my piano and some old broken speakers, I will actually for the first time ever actually have space for a throw away box. Sadly due to the covid thing I may not have the cash for one right now but still. If this is your live system, I would personally not doodle like this. You shouldn't need to custom tweak your live system that heavily at all. If you lose track, some time down the road you may lose track and things will go bang on you. Not counting windows and software updates which as we all know can and have broken things I have experienced this first hand. Of course I can make the problem go away but this system is my own system. Its why I havn't really gone insider yet on anything bar xbox. I have a standard configuration and thats it. If you really need to tweak like this, there are, were pes about. Sadly the opopanax stuff is gone and I am not sure what to do about this. To be honest there is probably a way to make a pe yourself but I have no idea how to or accessability of the software. But an imaging software I have used before ages and ages before, is drive image xml by runtimesoftware.org. Its accessible at least the version I used had alt b for backup and alt r for restore. The data was compressed and stored in xml files. It even had a cabinet for pe disks. Thing is now we have windows 10 setup you probably will never need a pe. A pe is only really needed to diagnose things and fix things, and get files off. If you have done that much tweaking you should probably know about linux, in that reguard, get something like linux mint, ubuntu mate, debian, or grml and you can probably recover files off your system, then if you screwed up, reinstall windows if its that bad. Windows changes so much anyway that your image will become out of date really quickly. If you have a server or nas or something to do images and friquently can do that with something like ghost or asincronis then hmmm well do whatever. I have not needed to bother with imaging my system. I keep the program files and data backed up on 2 external laptop drives and have a flash drive and dropbox handling critical things. If push comes to shove, and sometimes it does a lot of places I get my stuff from have ways to get the keys I own back. Some people will still need contacting but still.
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On 28/04/2020 4:53 pm, Sean wrote:
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Re: Windows PE ISO file with NVDA installed
hurrikennyandopo ...
Hi
The file was bigger than I thought.
About 1.3 gig and just looked I have no space to drop it into as I only have a 2 gig limit and they are used for files on my website.
it also looks as though drop box has changed stuff i hate that when that happens.
Gene nz
On 28/04/2020 6:23 pm, Sean wrote:
Hey, super news.
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Re: browser whatsapp file sharing
hurrikennyandopo ...
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If I remember right if it is the web or app version go to the person you want to send it to then maybe type in a message, then go to browse mode and go up to attachments you can use shift/B key to do this. When you get to it I can not remember if I used nvda key + enter key to open that section. It then gave me 4 clickable sections these were not read out I think the first section was to send documents etc and the one after it I think it done your camera to take a photo? I would really have to go back in as they are not named. Then after you picked your file then is send after that.
I might need some eyes to confirm again before I add it into the tutorial as without been named I did not think any one would use it.
Gene nz
On 28/04/2020 2:13 am, bhanu computer
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hi all, i cant access file sharing option in whatsapp with NVDA. can any one tell me how to access it?
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Re: Windows PE ISO file with NVDA installed
Sean
Hey, super news.
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please windows 10, 64 . thanks, gene SeanI'm student and programmer. I write often Python, sometimes Go and rare C++.
On 28 Apr 2020, at 08:33, hurrikennyandopo ... <hurrikennyandopo@...> wrote:
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Re: Question: Are there any tutorials on backup and restore helpful for NVDA users who totally rely on speech or Braille?
brian,
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i heard various positive informations about this program from several people. they told me making backup in the windows invironment not Dos, after creating backup on windows, we can specify one drive for restoring backup. we can consider drive c to be formatted and reinstalling windows again. drive snapshot format our desired drive and restore our backup without needing bios invironment and after finishing reinstalling windows, windows becomes restarted and works as normal!
On 4/27/20, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:55 PM, zahra wrote:In looking at the website for Drive Snapshot ( --
By God, were I given all the seven heavens with all they contain in order that I may disobey God by depriving an ant from the husk of a grain of barley, I would not do it. imam ali
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Re: What'sapp on PC?
hurrikennyandopo ...
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I think i have used a few different ones for it when I was writing the tutorial.
Gene nz
On 28/04/2020 3:05 am, Gerardo Corripio
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Re: Windows PE ISO file with NVDA installed
hurrikennyandopo ...
Hi Sean
I have on this pc 2 copies of Windows 10 PE versions and for windows 10 one is 32 and 64 bit. I used to have a windows 7 version might still have it but would
have to look.
I can only drop box one at a time my limit for drop box would be used up if both were done.
Is this what you are talking about they are the ones with nvda on it. Never used it but they are about 700 meg or so or maybe bigger.
not sure if it includes the ico image though.
Let us know if you want me to drop box it? Plus which version.
Gene nz
On 28/04/2020 4:53 pm, Sean wrote:
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Windows PE ISO file with NVDA installed
Sean
Hi all, SeanI’m student and programmer. I write often Python, sometimes
Go and rare C++.
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Re: Accessible Fediverse resources
Hmmm can I link facebook with this?
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I am trying to add friends mainly because I want to use messenger which is somewhat accessible but to add a friend, well the page is so full of stuff I don't know what I am doing. I use twitter mainly for viewing and facebook a little but mostly wordpress. This fediverse sounds like something I should invest in both for mine and other websites. I am actually interested.
On 28/04/2020, Robert Kingett <kingettr@gmail.com> wrote:
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Accessible Fediverse resources
Below, I've written a guide on accessibility within the Fediverse. I hope you enjoy it! I decided to host it on my own blog rather than on this list. Share the link if you enjoy. https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/fediverse-accessibility-resources/
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Re: Using a dual boot system with NVDA
Fresh Start
Thank you Daniel. This will prove quite useful.
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Daniel Wolak Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 9:21 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Using a dual boot system with NVDA Hi, The cost for Reaper's license for individuals or small businesses is $60 US, although there is a trial period in which you can evaluate. The accessibility extension (Osara) is free. I'd personally suggest joining the RWP list if you have further questions. Daniel On 4/26/2020 9:51 AM, Fresh Start wrote: Thank you very very much. Do you know the cost?
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Re: Question: Are there any tutorials on backup and restore helpful for NVDA users who totally rely on speech or Braille?
Laurie Mehta
Brian, Thanks for your reply and for the information you've shared. - Laurie
On Monday, April 27, 2020, 08:10:04 AM PDT, Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote: Laurie, I have nothing on restore simply because I've never had any instance to even try to do one with a screen reader. Given that most recovery is done through a dedicated bootable disk, and not Windows itself, since you are actually trying to recover a Windows System Image, it's doubtful that there is any way to do so with a screen reader. If someone knows of a recovery utility that either has a screen reader built in or that can otherwise be made to speak I'd love to hear about it. You could use any backup & recovery suite of your choosing, but I wrote a tutorial several years ago on using Macrium Reflect Free to take backups. The first page deals entirely with installing the utility, which you'll do only once. The second is the set of step-by-step instructions for actually taking the backup. In this day and age of ransomware, I do not recommend that backup drives remain attached to a machine other than when a backup is being taken or a recovery performed. Any drive that's attached if ransomware hits gets encrypted, and in the case of a backup drive that makes having the backup pointless. Using Macrium Reflect Free with a Screen Reader -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363 Science has become just another voice in the room; it has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth. ~ Dr. Paul A. Offit, in New York Times article, How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States, September 23, 2019
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Emergency patches: Enhanced Touch Gestures, Resource Monitor, StationPlaylist, Windows 10 App Essentials
#addonrelease
Hi everyone,
If you are using latest NVDA alpha snapshot, this is an important notice (for others, you can ignore it, or you can take a note of the following notice):
An issue was discovered with some of my add-ons where after installing add-on updates, NVDA will not restart properly, playing a critical error tone instead. The issue had to do with install tasks procedure, and was traced to an incomplete module import due to a recent change to NVDA alpha snapshots.
The following add-ons are affected:
Note: for StationPlaylist and Windows 10 App Essentials, development snapshots are also affected.
To mitigate this, I’m releasing an emergency patch for these add-ons tonight (my time):
For StationPlaylist and Windows 10 App Essentials, an additional build will be created for development snapshot users (dated April 28, 2020).
Cheers, Joseph
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Re: Question: Are there any tutorials on backup and restore helpful for NVDA users who totally rely on speech or Braille?
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 05:12 PM, John Isige wrote:
If we can boot media we should readily have available in caseAnd, John, if you know of one please share. I do not, and I've been in the IT business and assistive technology business for years now. You can take the tone you're taking because I'm reporting how things are, not how you'd like them to be, but it isn't pretty. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363 Science has become just another voice in the room; it has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth. ~ Dr. Paul A. Offit, in New York Times article, How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States, September 23, 2019
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Re: Question: Are there any tutorials on backup and restore helpful for NVDA users who totally rely on speech or Braille?
Rob Hudson
John Isige <gwynn@tds.net> wrote:
Anyway, my point is that with Narrator running right from the Are you able to run things from a USB flash drive while the windows disk is booted? Say from the repair console? You could get a portable version of active@ diskimage lite plus your disk images on an external drive, and run it that way.
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Re: how to get Emphasis and styled text
Bernd,
In word, doing formatting at the level of the words themselves simply involves selecting the text one wishes to format and then using the keyboard shortcuts to produce the formatting you're looking for. See: Keyboard shortcuts in Word - Office SupportThe Frequently Used Shortcuts section talks about bold, italic, and underline. If you are talking about the Styles part of the ribbon, I never use it. However, this is definitely not an NVDA-related topic, but is about how to use Microsoft Word. If you wish to discuss this further I will be happy to, but you need to join the Chat Subgroup and ask there, which is one of the purposes for the subgroup. At this point I will lock this topic. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363 Science has become just another voice in the room; it has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth. ~ Dr. Paul A. Offit, in New York Times article, How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States, September 23, 2019
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Re: Question: Are there any tutorials on backup and restore helpful for NVDA users who totally rely on speech or Braille?
John Isige
Don't count whatever you want. Will it work? If none of the self-booting
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ones will work, will some program that can create an image and run from within Windows work? I'm interested in practical solutions. There are always Linux rescue disks of course, but lots of people aren't comfortable with Linux. Windows might not provide a comfortable solution either, e.g. if you can only get to a CLI and people aren't comfortable with the command-line, but it would be a lot more readily accessible at least. Anyway, my point is that with Narrator running right from the installation screen of any bootable Windows nowadays, I feel like there should be a way to get access to image restoration with a screen reader, at least in theory. I don't know if there's a practical solution available though. I don't care if it runs from within Windows proper, or Windows PE, or whatever. If we can boot media we should readily have available in case of accidents anyway and get to some sort of program that will restore a recovery image while a screen reader is active, then there you go. That gives us a tool we can use independently that we couldn't use before. More importantly, all we need is standard Windows, we don't have to make a talking Linux disk or some special talking Windows environment. It's already available. If I can boot standard Windows, activate Narrator and run a GUI program or get to the command-line and do restore \path\windows-image-name and have it restore Windows with all of my programs, or most of them, to a messed up or brand new drive, then I'm happy.
On 4/27/2020 15:42, Brian Vogel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 02:46 PM, John Isige wrote:
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Re: how to get Emphasis and styled text
Bernd Dorer
Hi Brian,
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for me it's more important to know the usecase for the options as they are listed in document formatting category. If it helps I say Microsoft Word. I want to explain them in a German Podcast and couldn't produce them. Thanks Bernd Am 27.04.2020 um 22:38 schrieb Brian
Vogel:
Your question is far to vague to be answered. The first thing that would be necessary information is, "in what software."
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