Hi Shaun, I'm not sure I agree with much of this! I like audio ducking a lot becuase there are often websites that start things playing too loudly and there is no way to navigate to the volume control

thanks Gene and Brian for those comments. Yes, I realise why it is happening and I just wondered if there were any way to stop it happening without the need to turn NVDA's speech temporarily off (I pr

Hi all, I have two related cases of NVDA speaking information while I am typing that is not *what* I'm typing. I'm wondering if there is any way to disable this. I'll detail the two different cases se

Hi Brian, regarding the cost of upgrading, I upgraded to a Plus account becuase I use DropBox a lot and was getting close to filling my basic subscription with a small increase in space from recommend

I use m-dashes a lot and I use the ALT+0151 and it inserts them everywhere I've tried ... Notepad, Word, emails, this email — for example. If the Alt number pad keystroke isn't workikng for you do you

Hi Mohd and Brian Vogel, I tried what Brian suggested and I found the culprit on my system right away becuase it / they were the first two addons in the installed list. Acapela TTS Voices for NVDA; Di

In my sighted days I used the F4 shortcut in Excel a lot. Brian, in a nutshell it does exactly what Ahtesham said it does ... it performs the last action you did so that you can apply the same action

I don't have any explanation why nor any solution, but I can confirm YouTube is behaving the same for me when using Firefox. The Video page loads but does not automatically play. It started to do this

sorry, I should have explained that. I'm using iTunes on my Win 10 laptop rather than an apple device. Giles

Hi all, this has, for me, always been the case. When I want to search on iTunes for a track or album or podcast, NVDA reads the words I type as I'd expect but if I want to arrow backwards to change a

It is supposed to be settable by going to the main options, ALT+f and then somewhere in the advanced options is a setting that allows documents to open in draft view. This is the Microsoft info about

The easiest way I've found to edit or delete words in a dictionary with many entries is to go to AppDate/Roaming/NVDA/speechDicts and then open either the default.dic file or a dictionary in one of th

Hi all, I've signed up on the freedating.co.uk website and on its advanced search page it has options for various filters, such as employment status and disabled / not disabled. Once the options have

I learned my letters and numbers and grade 2 contractions when I had a whole year of adult vision rehab training in Atlanta. Sadly, through lack of use, I've forgotten all the contractions and I under

what do you mean by "the Windows method?" As mentioned in my question, once you past more than 500 characters (I think that's the threshold) NVDA stops speaking any of the text you're selecting and ju

Hi all, Most of the time when I use NVDA+F9 to set a start marker, and NVDA+F10 twice to copy the text to the clipboard I don't have any problems. I'm trying to select a block of text (a chapter of a

Hi all, I generally just use Notepad for writing anything down, pasting it into Word when I need to send it to anybody else. Due to time pressures with my univeristy deadlines, I'm writing a 40-page f

Hi Chris and others, I hadn't noticed that progress bar and yes, if I turn progress bar notification off it stops! No idea what the purpose of the progress bar is! Thanks, Giles

Hi all, I'm curious whether anybody else has noticed that some websites, admitedly relatively few, make a sort of beeping sound when cursoring down through the page? It doesn't happen when using say a

Hi Brian, it's just the initial logon screen for Win10. I use a PIN and each number is obfuscated with a character that NVDA describes as a circle, but my old dictionary entry for this circle symbol,