can anybody tell me waht regular expression could be used to stop page numbers in a table of contents from being preceded by a variable number of dots? For example, I'm reading a book reader manual an

I think we've kinda wandered away from what Sociohack was asking, and are now talking about the rights and wrongs and frustrations about advertising on Twitter! My recommendation, at least the way I u

Hello all, I'm curious whether NVDA is colour blind. I have noticed this with two emoticons now, both of them involving hearts. This one, ❤️, is spoken as "heavy black heart" and this one, ♥, as "blac

I would very much like that feature, Abbie. I It is a nightmare trying to figure out which lines have hard returns and which have soft returns. Whenever I send a poem to a magazine, or enter it into a

I tried to find a way to do this not too long ago. I sometimes use NVDA to perform poetry I've written at my poetry readings, but the answers I received were that the length of pauses is not controlab

I often use NVDA+F9 to select the start of a section of text I want to copy, then MVDA+F10 twice to copy it to the clipboard (NVDA+F10 once only selects the text). I find that the best way of copying

I had Text Aloud on an old laptop but not on my current one. If I wanted to record the output of NVDA reading something I would use Audacity (which is free) and you can set it up so that it records th

Hi all, especially Simon and Laz, I suddenly thought to try Internet Explorer and the sales page worked much better with that so my item is now listed. I will attempt to list it on Blind Bargains too,

Hi all, I regularly buy items from eBay and, in my sighted days, occasionally sold things too. The other day I noticed a pair of Orcam MyEye talking OCR glasses that sold and, since I have a pair that

thanks all for those suggestions, they all work a treat! I did not know about the CTRL space method of unselecting items so that is very handy :)

Hi all, is there a way to right click on the desktop in the way you can with a mouse, not selecting any specific item? I want to get 'personalise' in the desktop context menu so that I can add 'This C

just to add, the application key does offer such options because the first item when you press the applications key is User Actions, which takes you to the meny I've just described. Hope this helps :)

I use the menu in TWBlue more than shortcut keys, but to follow or unfollow people mentioned in a tweet or from the searches, then I go to the user menu (ALT+u) which takes me straight away to the act

thnks so much, Marshall, I will give that a go! Brian, I don't think the medium of screen writing is something that blind people shouldn't do ... that would be like saying that blind people shouldn't

Hi all, has anybody used screenwriting programs successfully with NVDA? When I start my MA in creative writing in October I'd like to take the movie/TV screenwriting module, but am going to need to us

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