- And I thank you for this contribution because it is a direct example of the more general situation where exactly how a web page is coded can have accessibility ramifications that differ between brow

This is a fairly common issue with folks that don't understand accessibility implications. They have coded the dropdown to perform actions when selection changes. Both JAWS and NVDA along with the bro

Ok, it looks like pressing alt+down arrow opens the combo box and I can move through it using either the cursor or first letter navigation. I am certain I tried this before but it works now. If I use

Hi. Have you tried Alt+Down arrow when you've reached the combo box, then pressing Enter on your desired option? Try that and report back.

I can't tell you what the root cause of the issue is, but I'm not having it, provided I arrow in to the combo box options after expanding before I use first letter nav. In the case of the states liste

I am running the latest version of NVDA production. I am trying to register for Kovid-19 vaccine on the Kroger.com site. They use combo boxes to gather some info like the state I live in and the vacci

Do you have any configuration profiles? To check, press NVDA+n, c, and then use your arrow keys to navigate the list of configured profiles. I'm wondering if you have a profile, and what you think you

Following on from Chris' suggestion, if you setup the symbol level etc how you want it, then press NDVA+control+c, or choose "Save configuration" from the NVDA menu, when you restart the computer are

Many thanks for this info. Will give it a try later. John.

I should have added that I use speech with NVDA and it works well. I thought of a possible work around. Try using the reading pane. I don't know how you do this using Braille, but using speech, when y

My problem is purely with NVDA and windows live mail. When using Jaws the braille works well and is instant. No matter what I try with NVDA when I open an email the braille simply shows the word payne

What accessibility software doesn't it work well with? it works well with NVDA. I use Windows Live Mail as my main e-mail program. I've seen some reports of slowness concerning Thunderbird. I don't ha

No idea why, but if you use the save configuration option in nvda menu it should then save the settings as you want them to be before exiting nvda

- And you really, really shouldn't. I was a big fan of WLM even for some years after it was out of support, but it is showing its age particularly badly when coupled with accessibility software as tim

Does the installed version of NVDA save settings in the registry? The portable version certainly doesn't. But the behavior you describe, being able to shut down NVDA, then open it again and not lose s

Hi group a strange thing has happened the last couple days on NVDA while most of my settings are in tact, every time I restart my computer for the day, the punctuation/symbol level somehow reverts to

Luke, I can now get the braille to work. When I open an email the only word showing on the braille display is Payne. However, if I tab once NVDA says documents and I can then read everything with the

As Luke noted, either Insert or Caps lock - and that is set independently of desktop or laptop keyboard layout in NVDA - it's the key that you use with other keys for any NVDA command - eg say all. As

It depends on your configuration. When you were setting up NVDA, you either set the NVDA key to be the capslock key, the insert key, or the numpad insert key. or some or all of the above. Luke

Hi Quentin, I am very new to NVDA, having used Jaws for years. I still use windows live mail for my emails and the braille works fine with jaws. However, when I open an email using NVDA the text is re