This isn't unique to nvda. Apple's voice over has this problem a lot too, so it has to be something related to the documents, because I've never found any pattern on OSX either as to what works, and w

heh, this whole the synthesizer knows better than you do has been an ongoing argument for me with apple since around 2005. I still insist, and insist most heartily that it's the screen reader's job to

chrome books run (you guessed it, chrome os) Chrome os is not windows, chrome os is not windows, (this bears repeating) chrome os is not windows. None of your windows programs are going to run on a ch

Well, it looks like they've done some work since the last time I checked on chromevox. Last time I looked into chromevox, it was simply a browser extension, not a general screen reader, that's why I s

I get that too, and have done so since opening thunderbird for the first time. It's configurable in the security settings, but I haven't bothered to change it yet as it hasn't irritated me enough just

Speaking of reading tables on web pages. How does one navigate down the columns of the tables. I currently have to navigate a cell at a time, and sometimes, I don't want to do that. I'm sure there's a

Yep, I did that too, after the post about switching views. I didn't know if simple html would fix it or not, but I really didn't want to go all the way back to plain text just yet, so I tried it, and

I don't actually know the difference as thunderbird refers to it, but my guess would be that simple html simply ignores all javascript, and interprets the html coding only. It's a lot harder to get ma

In some cases, you can just select all from the document, then paste it into word or something similar. If the pdf is protected in any way, this won't work, but then, generally, it won't convert to an

Generally, when you see the radio buttons, check boxes, and other items in a form that have no labels, it's because the web page designer put the text to the left or on top of the items in question. Y

Well, I don' t know about a stand-alone calendar, (though it'd be easy enough to write one if one can't be found). There is one built in to thunder bird that works pretty well. It's not a hundred perc

In chrome, every window you open becomes a whole new process, so you would treate multiple chrome windows just like multiple programs. Just use the alt-tab, and toggle through all the programs to find

Hmm. Escape doesn't work for me at all. I need to use ctrl-f4 to close a message. Pressing escape does nothing. I know this doesn't help, but it might offer hope anyhow.

If you can see, (and it sounds like you can) then you don't need NVDA to perform this function for you. You can simply highlight the text you want read, then select the menu option to have it read for

Apparently, this functionality isn't built into windows anymore. I know you used to be able to highlight text, then select options, and have it read outloud if you wanted it. My wife says she uses a b

The functionality is trivial. Getting it to act as a plugin would probably take more code than the reading would. :) At the moment, I don't know how to make things plugins for web browsing or otherwis

.brf files *are* just plain text files. There's nothing in a .brf file that can't be displayed in a text editor. Of course there will be odd symbols in there, (er is right bracket, ar is less than sym

Actually, this thread brings up something I've been wondering about myself. I have a program I use that isn't all that accessible with NVDA. I don't know the first thing about how to make a program ac

This is something folks generally don't realize. Jaws is nothing but a glorified scripting engine. If you deleted all the scripts from jaws, there would be next to nothing it could do all by itself. T

I know NVDA doesn't have a label icons feature, that's why I'm asking how/what to do to make this program accessible. If it entails writing a script, that's fine, but where do I find information on wr