nope, presing NVDA and s to togle doesn't make any difference and, if I try to swipe on the touchscreen or tap the screen, NVDA does say, "Desktop" so clearly it is set to speek but for some reason it

Hi all, I have a strange problem with NVDA. About a week ago it stopped speaking and just made a clicking sound ... I'm not even sure if it might be the same sound as when speech mode is set to beeps.

apologies ... I'm talking nonsense! The About window is closing with a press of the Escape key, it is the Speech Viewer window that won't close. In the end I closed NVDA and re-started to remove the s

Hi All, I was just looking in the About window to see which version of NVDA I have installed, and it is 2018.3.2 ... now I know that I am unable to close that About dialogue! Presing Escape, Alt+F4 pr

thanks, Hareth, I've changed those settings and they work a treat! :) Giles Giles L. Turnbull Blindness Advisor to the Scottish Poetry Library (voluntary) swansea and Abergavenny, south Wales Web: htt

Hi Gene, thanks for the link to your WinAmp tutorial, I will have a read of that. You are correct though that I used to be able to navigate up and down the playlist and pick spcific tracks to play if

Hi all, I have another puzzling program issue, this time with Winamp. I'm sure I've experienced this before,but I can't for the life of me remember how I sorted it out! It relates to the Winamp 5.666

Hi Brian, No, I can't find the checkbox that relates to not wanting DropBox to import media on either the app or in my account on the DropBox website. Giles

Hi all, I've recently installed DropBox onto a new laptop. On my other devices I've obviously managed to turn off importing photos but on this new laptop I need to make the required change in my accou

I have a sort-of similar question. I used to play piano in my sighted days but mever memorised any of the music, prefering to read the score as I played. Now I can't read a score I can't remember much

thanks, Sociohack, that has helped me a lot ... I've been trying to figure out how to get any comments to be displayed in line with the original text and by saving the document as a PDF and then openi

thanks, Chris. I'm using Win10 and know where my Firefox user settings are so I'll give that a go :)

Hi Gene, thanks for those suggestions. I have found the custom url option and been able to set startpage as my home page now :) I also managed to find the use current tabs option, which also appeared

Hi all, sorry for this longish post! Firegfox updated to version 62.0 for me yesterday and I've noticed the options page seems very different in layout and I'm finding it very difficult to navigate. T

My default means of doing this would be to open the NVDA speech viewer and then copy the text that NVDA speaks from there. I suspect if you can navigate to the graphic in question and can view its pro

I agree that this is very bad website design by something designed for blind users, but it happens on quite a lot of websites if the designers don't include whatever descriptive attribute identifies t

thanks for those suggestions, they work a treat! :)

can anybody tell me waht regular expression could be used to stop page numbers in a table of contents from being preceded by a variable number of dots? For example, I'm reading a book reader manual an

I think we've kinda wandered away from what Sociohack was asking, and are now talking about the rights and wrongs and frustrations about advertising on Twitter! My recommendation, at least the way I u

Hello all, I'm curious whether NVDA is colour blind. I have noticed this with two emoticons now, both of them involving hearts. This one, ❤️, is spoken as "heavy black heart" and this one, ♥, as "blac