Hi all, I'm unhappy ... I'm having problems with my smiley faces! I'll use my FB post about it and include a bit of NVDA related info into it. Giles Turnbull is feeling unhappy. who am I unhappy with?

Hi Suzy, I experience this too and, like you, Excel starts off fine and then will freeze up after finishing entering text into one of the cells. For me there is a kind-of workaround. When I type into

Yes, NVDA's OCR function will read text in a downloaded image. I've used it before with an old copy of Paint Shop Pro, but just confirmed that if you open a image with text in something like MS Paint

Thanks, Brian. No, I don't have tool tips turned on. These are the Object Presentation settings I use with NVDA: Report tooltips check box not checked Alt+t Report help balloons check box checked Alt+

Hi all, this is a question about Microsoft Word 2016 which I am using on a Win10 laptop with NVDA 2018.1 If I have no Word documents open and then open one, NVDA speaks every object (apologies if ‘obj

I also use QRead for PDF and ePub books and heartily recommend it. Whilst Adobe Digital Editions is accessible for reading a book, I worried about books that wouldn't let me copy any text from them at

I deleted the post because I was looking back at my code and realised I'd made a stupid coding error! I coppied the link to the image from my Wordpress media library, but did not notice there were hal

the program I have now installed is malware bytes. I've forgotten the name of what program malware bytes found and quarantined but it was something involving Monster. Before trying malware bytes I dow

Hi Brian, I'm using Firefox latest version 59. and no, there is no way to access any settings when the malware was playing. It plays continuously on a loop and you cannot close the page, cannot shut d

Hi all, somehow today I've picked up the adware that plays an audio warning that the computer mayh be infected with viruses and to contact Microsoft technical support on 'this number' for somebody who

The only Captcha tool I ever used was included with an early Twitter client for the blind, called Qwitter. Sadly that vanished and there was no equivalent when Qwitter evolved into The Qube. But what

I too am a big fan of ABBYY Fine Reader. i use version 12 and don't have any accessibility concerns with it. I find their support email very quick and friendly too. I was curious whether I could use t

Hi all, when people say we can email them by email and give the email address, why does the forum system cut everything after the @ symbol out? For example, in Quentin's reply to Ryan Cho's question a

I use the num pad method very frequently. Even though I live in the UK I am used to the US keyboard layout so symbols like the pound sign £ are not above the number keys. I turn num lock on and hold t

I'm using version 1.70 beta 2 (UNICODE BUILD) of CDex with Win10 and it works fine. It didn't come bundled with loads of stuff I didn't want.

I find the "apply to all folders" checkbox works with variable success. There is a shortcut keystroke in Win10 to switch between folder views and I use this to apply it to a folder that I go into and

Hi all, something I've noticed fairly recently is that on some websites when I activate a checkbox it has stopped saying “checkbox checked” as I pres space bar to check it. I have to arrow back to mak

thanks all for the suggestions :) Giles

Hi all, NVDA obviously pauses for commas and full stops (periods) but does anybody have any ideas about how to increase the length of the pause? I ask because I use NVDA for performing my poetry (I ha

I think I began using DVD Audio Extractor because of what you said about it in a thead a while ago, and I love it! I finally ran into an encrypted Blu Ray disc the other day and found a program called