I have found the NVDA screen review inconsistent and I am trying to figure out why and how to get around the problem. Try this experiment: 1. Type Windows with R to issue the Run Command 2. Type an in

I had so much fun preparing two "thunderclaps" for Nvda-Con, I decided I want to do a tutorial on object nav that approaches it differently than previous efforts. Hopefully it can be something for nex

I made a small mistake in my description of my presentation. I said I would talk about "Quick Dictionary". That add-on is still only on github, not released to the entire community. Therefore I will t

Create portable copies but save them to your hard drive. You want a portable copy for each language you know. Create shortcuts to each of these portable copies. Instead of running on flash drives, the

I am sorry I can't be very specific, but in fooling with my view settings in outlook I managed to turn grouping off and it cut out all that verbosity. You can adjust your view to include fewer columns

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I wanted to let everyone know how excited I am to present again at NVDACon and to tell you a bit about my talk. I've asked the organizers to give me a full 90 minutes so there will be plenty of time f

I have a question for all you bilingual folks. I'm learning Spanish and entering now my fourth quarter and have moved from beginner to intermediate. If I use JAWS and when a website, assignment or tes

I did the lightning talk at NVDACON on learning foreign languages using NVDA. I really enjoyed the conference, and really enjoyed making this contribution. I definitely want to do a session next year,

I am giving the lightning talk on learning foreign languages. I put together a handout to accompany the talk. This way I can discuss a procedure, such as installing a new keyboard in general, but the

Good news, folks! I installed the latest Brltty (filename in my above post) on two Windows 10 machines, one at work and one at home. The home machine is a slow, slow atom and the one at work is a supe

Guys, this was my mistake! It works perfectly. The problem was the help screen, you are supposed to read by pressing F1, wasn't reading on my home PC. I tried it at work and could read the help fine.

Nvda 2019.1.1 current stable. Braille Extender 2019.07.10, also current stable. This problem was reported on the list by Rob Hudson back in January. Though the settings let you configure two Braille t

Well I discovered a few things. On an old Windows 7 machine, which has a real serial port, I installed the latest Brltty which is brltty-win-6.0-1-libusb-1.0 it's an .Exe file and a typical Windows in

Maybe you can't get it working in Win10 because of the hooks already there for the Brltty Microsoft hacked up for Narrator. I'm afraid to try adding Brltty for NVDA because I have Narrator working fin

I used NVDA with brltty on Windows 7, but when I switched to Windows 10, I didn't want to install Brltty because there was already a version that got installed when you enabled Braille with narrator.

I agree that find is the best way to position yourself to where you need to go on a complex page. The JAWS touch cursor defaults to being a 2-dimensional sort of replacement for the JAWS cursor becaus

This discussion kind of evolved in to talking about browsing with Amazon, but I have some more general ideas. First, do make sure you have IE, Chrome and FireFox and Edge, available and updated, and d

I have an in-house application that uses data grids, somewhat like Microsoft Access. I can move around the grid with the arrow keys, going between both fields and records. To hide columns, one must dr

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** This was also cross-posted to Cavi-discuss *** As a screen reader user, I'm finding selecting a new laptop is more difficult than ever before. I'm very curious to see what others think, so please p