Hi I answered a similar request some weeks ago when I recommended a site designed for blind users which gives an ad free interface to search for and play YouTube videos. The link is: http://www.povidi

Hi I’m not sure this is relevant any more as it’s several years since I worked using a terminal emulator and it was Attachmate Extra with Jaws at that time, so I apologise in advance if this informati

Hi Have you checked the shortcut key combination has not been accidentally changed or removed? Find the NVDA entry on your desktop and press alt+enter. Tab down to the shortcut key field and check tha

Jeff You can read the date and size attributes in Details view by using right arrow when positioned on a particular file. This pre-supposes you have these attributes selected for display. The size dat

Hi F6 gets me to the Chrome address/search bar on my W10 machine but not directly. Repeated presses take me to the address bar, bookmarks bar, currently displayed page and the tab control bar. Similar

Hi F6 will read the Status Bar provided it has been switched on in the File and folder options, view tab, advanced settings. It is near the top of the page and f6 will cycle through various elements o

Hi When I look in Settings, Apps, Default apps I see the following: Choose default applications Email, Microsoft Office Outlook Maps, Maps Music player, VLC media player Photo viewer, Photos Video pla

Hi Anthony I don't know of a way to do this via the windows update route but you can upgrade Windows via other methods. For instance you could use the Windows Media Creation tool to create installatio

Hi Jim I am not experiencing any significant issues. NVDA reads out some extraneous text items when I access the Settings App, for which I posted a message on the NVDA list. Apparently the text items

Hi This will be the update to Windows 1809 which I installed last week and prior to that I had similar messages. This is what is known as a feature update and is different to normal updates as it crea

Hi James The folders Program Files X86 and Program Files relate to whether an application is 32 or 64 bit. You get these 2 folders on machines that use a 64-bit operating system. A 64-bit machine can

Hi I have just upgraded from Windows 1803 to 1809 and now when I use the ~Windows Settings app I hear the following : CN=Microsoft Windows, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US It so

Hi I tried ctrl+f on the Opera browser and It opens a “Find in page” fox, into which I type my search criteria, press enter , then escape and indeed, it takes me to the first occurrence of my search t

Hi It’s in the Power management settings. You can set times after which various power saving events will happen for both mains and battery operation (if applicable). Cheers Chris

Hi Does NVDA identify the control as being a check box? When NVDA lands on a check box it should identify it a as check box, speak the state and announce the label. NVDA will say “Unknown” when it doe

Hi Are you using desktop or laptop keyboard layout? The read current line command in desktop mode is NVDA+UpArrow, in Laptop mode it’s NVDA+l. To check your keyboard layout, press NVDA+ctrl+k to displ

Hi When you have a large amount of text on the clipboard, if it could speak it back to you , it will only relay it serially, which means you have to listen to it from the beginning each time. Why not

I tried this in ms Word and it works without moving the Word cursor. You can move any number of lines within the current screen, in addition, Numpad keys 4, 5 and 6 will read previous, current and nex

Hi Robert Assuming desktop keyboard layout, try switching on "Caret moves review cursor" (NVDA+6 on number row), then use numpad 7, 8 and 9 keys alone to read previous, current and next lines. Cheers

Hi I have Outlook 2007 and after pressing enter on a message in the folder list, NVDA reads the text in the subject box not the whole line, then it announces the message format, then the control type