When something like this happens to me where it appears as though my control key was being held down I just press the right control key once or twice followed by doing the same with my left control ke

I'm uncertain as to why the addon isn't working for you. Do you have the most current version of the addon? Since I'm quite confident that Code Factory will release their updated addon shortly you mig

I wanted to verify that one addon that won't function properly when modifying its manifest.ini file is the Ignore Blanks Indentation Reporting Addon. Modifying this addon's manifest.ini file will caus

Don H. wrote: 1. You need to open your c:\users\username\appdata\roaming folder, substituting username for the name your machine has for you as a user. Perhaps the quickest way to open it is to open t

I also took a chance and updated the manifest file for both the Code Factory voices as well as the Acapela addons. I realize this isn't always recommended but I decided to try it and both of these set

I wrote to Acapela Group to ask about the status of their addon with the upcoming 2023.1 release of NVDA. Here is their response. From: Acapela Group Support <support@...> Hello David, Y

I have been using Windows 11 since January of this year. I can report no noticeable accessibility challenges with screen readers and I honestly see no reason for why blind users should avoid this oper

When you say the voices are quiet are you saying that you hear nothing or are you saying that you hear them but the volume is extremely low? David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist

I recently noticed this behavior and it was maddening as I knew it hadn’t occurred with earlier versions of NVDA. First, here’s what I’m using and the symptoms. This occurs with NVDA 2022.3 as well as

I should point out that Winaero Tweaker does have an option to disable the lock screen which you can find in the Boot and Logon section. This program is accessible with screen readers. I don’t recomme

Cyrille wrote: security advisories and "In-Process" do not target the same audience. With respect I’m not sure that we can make such a general statement. I’m sure there are many In-Process readers who

Hi. I sometimes still use ESpeak, U.S. dialect, Male 3 variant. I don’t know if it’s just me but it seems like the treble on the voice is a bit softer with 2022.4 beta 1 compared to earlier versions o

I don't think that we should count Home Page Reader, Window-Eyes or Winvision in discussions like this since they are discontinued products which haven't been developed in years. If we're going to do

I think that one thing which might possibly help with users who have changed a lot of settings is for the program to have an internal mechanism to allow a user to review options which were recently ch

Hi, Brian. Pressing home or end moves the browse mode cursor to the beginning or end of the current line, respectively. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist NVDA Certified Expert

That would be control-home, the same keystroke you would use to move to the top of an email message or other document. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist NVDA Certified Expert

Gene, When using these voices in Narrator you definitely don’t have unnatural pauses at the end of each sentence. I understand your point of view in that we’ve had many human sounding voices for quite

When Jeff Bishop from Microsoft was a panelist at the 2022 ACB convention I did ask if the new natural voices might become available for third party screen readers. He said that they were only availab

I would have thought this would be caused by the Line Numbers check box in Document Settings being enabled. When enabled, NVDA would say “line x” where X is the number of the line I’m reading. Press t

Hi, Betsy. I'm not aware of any functions built into NVDA that can decode and announce captchas. That being said the extension that I've used in the past is Rumola, which you can get here. https://ski