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

While NotepadPlusPlus has been mentioned here, I didn't hear mention of the NVDA add-on for it. The add-on is particularly useful while programming in NPP. It can be had at the usual place. Luke

I wonder if Microsoft's mouse keys feature is identical to the right and left click of the mouse, in situations where "any screen reader's emulation" is insufficient? Just random pondering. Luke

What do you have braille tethered to? By default it is tethered "Automatically" which moves between the review cursor and focus automatically. Sometimes this doesn't work as intended. If you press NVD

Gene, You've given perfect examples are the very rare things I'm thinking about, and it's really handy to have a mouse or mouse pad "prepared for blind use" in those instances. It can make what is oth

There are times on web [pages where a left click must be used because a control isn't coded to work from the keeyboard. there are programs where you need to click but I don't know if that is more than

- In 99.99999999% of cases, once you have selected something and have focus on it, hitting the menu/applications key is precisely the same as a right click. You can also reliably use SHIFT+F10, whethe

Someone I know said that you may get audio support on Hyper V if you use MS RDP and connect to the Hyper V that way

The company use Sip, yes.

Yes, it should be. When using voice over IP, the security is usually down to the server you're connecting to. Softphones are clients for the most part and respect the server's security policies. Both

I’ll try it Is it secure? The IT will not accept it if its not secure.