Hi Tara, I am sorry to be late responding to your question, but I might have a solution for you. I needed this solution for my Masters degree in creative writing, where making sure my work was properl

Hi Tara, I needed to find a way to do this a couple of years ago when I was proof-reading my university Masters degree assignments. I asked on here, and somebody kindly created a very similar reg expr

Hi Micheal, I don't know if there's any easy way to export the list of contact email addresses, but there's a way you can get them. If you find the Contacts link and go to that, you then need to scrol

yes, it is possible to edit the dictionary files manually. They are located in AppData/Roaming/NVDA/speechDicts. The default dictionary is default.dic and any voice dictionaries you might have are in

One website that I know won't show content if adverts are disabled, is ITV online catch-up. I like to watch The Chase quiz show online, but it won't play the episodes if the browser has an ad blocker

I asked about changing the volume of the sounds, and it was suggested that it was probably a Windows system sound. The sound I was trying to quieten was the beep that indicates when I have entered or

Hi Chris, I have done quite a lot of work with getting screen reader pronunciations to match what I want, because I sometimes use NVDA to read poems I've written to an audience if I haven't memorised

Out of interest, have you had win10 installed on that Asus and, if so, did it happen then too? I ask because I have a 17-inch Asus gaming laptop running Win10, and it has always done this for me, much

a question on a slight tangent ... I have a paid version of QRead 3.1 and want to stick with that version. I recently needed to replace my Surface Pro tablet with a newer model, and when I attempt to

Another option that I regularly turn to if I want to copy text from a dialogue box, is to start Speech Viewer from NVDA's tools menu. Then everything that NVDA reads aloud is in the viewer window, whe

In theory it is ... sort of! The main concern is the sound of the TTS engine which, as others have mentioned, might not be very pleasant to somebody not used to listening to screen readers. when my po

Thank you for that video :) I wish I'd known that two years ago when I did a Masters degree and needed to make sure each page was numbered. I ended up asking my mum to confirm that pages were numbered

Hi all, I am puzzled, because I get an upper case E acute with ALT+0201, and a lower case one with ALT+0233. What I do notice that I hadn't noticed before, is that when I type those characters in Note

Would adding "menu item" (without the quote marks) to your NVDA defualt dictionary stop it from being said? The only time that would become a problem would be if you encountered the text menu item in

Hi Luke, and sory for the delay in replying to your question. Yes, you copy the default.dic file from appdata/roaming/NVDA/Speechdicts and you paste it into exactly the same location on your other dev

because I use two laptop computers and 1 tablet every day, I have three NVDA installations. If I've added a new entry to a speech dictionary on one laptop, then I find the easiest way to update the ot

This is a suggestion relating to the NVDA updater, rather than NVDA itself, and it's a question really for the programmers behind that installer. I started updating to NVDA 2021.1 on my Microsoft Surf

Hi Louise, yes, I have seen this sort of behaviour. One of the websites that has links to audio-described movies, https://jeff.tdrealms.com/Described_Movies.md has 4412 links. If you use NVDA+F7 to op

I apologise for not specifying the exact page. It is https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/ I notice it when I activate Groceries, which seems to change the page but the address remains as https://www.sainsbur

Hi all, I apologise for the rather clunky and undescriptive subject line! I have found several websites shift the NVDA cursor to the website's privacy settings link when the page loads. I experience t