Here is a correction. I just checked the original message and the numbers are written correctly. I don't know what caused the confusion yesterday but I somehow tested incorrectly. Gene

I have the numbers spoken as February 3rd 2022 with punctuation set to none. Gene

I thought it did for some reason but I checked it again and it is reading as the original message reported. The current version is spoken as February 3rd, 2022. I didn't use the about dialog and I rea

My country and region settings are correct. The country is United States and the region is English United States. Gene

I don't see any reason to empty the Recycle Bin. You may if you wish but files won't run that are there. They just sit and do nothing. Gene

Here is a correction: I somehow misunderstood what you were reporting yesterday. The One Core voices do read the version as a date in February when reading the current version number. But this has not

If you update from within the portable version, it will remain a portable version. If you update add-ons, they will be updated in the portable version if you update them in that version. Gene

What synthesizer are you using? Microsoft Zira reads the version number correctly and E-speak does as well. Gene

Just as the Windows zip utility and 7zip specify and create an empty folder when extracting a file or folder, so should NVDA create its own folder to place NVDA in. Gene

And I think it is important to add that just because an update is available, you don't have to update. You can see what's new in the new version of NVDA without installing it by reading the what's new

JAWS has scripts for standard programs such as Notepad and many others. I don't know what would happen if JAWS had no scripts. But what you were told, if it is that any program you install and use wit

The command is used to skip blocks of links. I haven't seen a technical discussion but I expect it will stop on any text that isn't link text below where you are that is more than a certain number of

What happens if you move to that point in browse mode, then use the NVDA move mouse command to where you are on the web page. What we call the virtual mouse in NVDA, is actually moving the real mouse

If you can't scroll as I described, you may well be able to if you turn caret browsing on and move with the arrow keys or with page down through the page in that way. Using Firefox, if I turn caret br

I'll add that I thought page down moved you through a web page when browse mode is off but experimenting raises the question of whether it does. Brian should be able to answer the question. I would ex

Along with trying another browser, I would suggest moving through the page using NVDA, by repeatedly pressing page down while browse mode is off. After all, if a site does try to determine whether som

If a commercial screen-reader solves the problem, why not use a demo? Gene

I just checked. The NAO, add-on, though that may not be quite the right name, doesn't do anything concerning the volume control. It is an OCR add-on. I don't know the name of the NVDA add-on that does

I don't know much about add-ons that affect the Windows volume control. There is an add-on that does all sorts of things in one add-on. I don't use it but others may comment. I think its called someth

Hole the Windows key and type r. Then, when the run dialog opens, type sndvol and press enter. Gene