Because I use NVDA in writing groups where I sometimes want to go line by line rather than say all, I use a work around. If you press tab at the start of that blank line than NVDA doesn't say anything

No, I don't have any screen saver active on my com0-computers. It is also not, as far as I can tell, something specific triggering NVDA to read the window title, other than some delay that triggers it

Hello all, I have two separate but related questions concerning when NVDA gets triggered to say something. First: I have DropBox installed on my laptop and my tablet. Sometimes I have both devices tur

for clarification of why I need to drag and drop, it is a means of removing DRM from iTunes films so I'll be able to convert them to mp3 and then play them on my Blaze book reader. I only have iTunes

Hi all, I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible using NVDA but I thought I'd ask. I've read the mouse functions section in the 2018.1 user guide and have tried routing the mouse to the current o

I decided I like Malware Bytes enough to pay for the premium version and I have received the email with my registration key. I can find the button that says Activate Licence, but it doesn't seem to wa

I've installed the emoticon addin but it's not really changed anything. It does speak the text when I read what I've typed in the edit windo, so :) is identified as a “smiling smiley” whereas my dicti

thanks Chris, I'll give that a go ... I hadn't realised there was an addin for that :)

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