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NVDA and Chrome and alerts

Dan Beaver
 

Hi,


More Chrome struggles.


I am now getting the statement "alert" spoken multiple times when I open a website. How do I read those alerts using NVDA? I can't seem to find a way.


Thanks.


Dan Beaver
Brian Vogel
 

When you open any website or certain websites?  If the latter, could you share which one(s)?
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Dan Beaver
 

I am just asking if there is a way to read the alerts no matter what page they occur on.  Is this possible with NVDA and chrome?  It is starting to happen on multiple sites but not all sites.


Dan Beaver


On 10/7/2016 12:25 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
When you open any website or certain websites?  If the latter, could you share which one(s)?
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Brian Vogel
 

OK, but still, can you give one or two webpages?  It's much easier for me to play with this using NVDA and the fact that I can also see what's happening to come to a possible solution.

I fire up NVDA "on demand" when questions like this arise.  Not having to look for a specific example of what you're referring to by a brute force search is helpful to me.
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    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Dan Beaver
 

Ok, here is one example:


http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Issues-Statement-on-Missionary-Preparations-for-Hurricane-Matthew/s/83404?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ldsliving 


Dan Beaver


On 10/7/2016 12:56 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

OK, but still, can you give one or two webpages?  It's much easier for me to play with this using NVDA and the fact that I can also see what's happening to come to a possible solution.

I fire up NVDA "on demand" when questions like this arise.  Not having to look for a specific example of what you're referring to by a brute force search is helpful to me.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Brian Vogel
 

Dan,

          I get nothing that announces "Alert" when I navigate through to that page and I did not interrupt NVDA speech at all to be certain that I didn't cut this off before it might have occurred.  At first I had an operating theory that it might be ads that are creating these alerts, but even when I turned off Adblock Plus I still do not get them on that page when it loads in the latest version of Chrome (v 53.0.2785.143 m).

          If you have not scanned your machine recently with a malware detector such as Malwarebytes and/or a spyware detector such as Super AntiSpyware I would suggest you do so.  I had fully expected to hear what you're hearing and have visual elements popping up that correspond to same, but am not.  Just the generic nature of the message, "Alert," makes me wonder if you might have an infection of some kind.
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Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Dan Beaver
 

Thanks for the help.


I have scanned my system this week so I don't think it would be anything like that.


My wife who is sighted will be home shortly so I will have her watch and see what is going on.


Dan Beaver


On 10/7/2016 2:29 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

Dan,

          I get nothing that announces "Alert" when I navigate through to that page and I did not interrupt NVDA speech at all to be certain that I didn't cut this off before it might have occurred.  At first I had an operating theory that it might be ads that are creating these alerts, but even when I turned off Adblock Plus I still do not get them on that page when it loads in the latest version of Chrome (v 53.0.2785.143 m).

          If you have not scanned your machine recently with a malware detector such as Malwarebytes and/or a spyware detector such as Super AntiSpyware I would suggest you do so.  I had fully expected to hear what you're hearing and have visual elements popping up that correspond to same, but am not.  Just the generic nature of the message, "Alert," makes me wonder if you might have an infection of some kind.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Brian Vogel
 

Dan,

            Please do report back with the final result as far as cause and fix.

            One other thing just struck me, could it be that you have an update to Chrome itself waiting?  They recently replaced the conventional hamburger/pancake stack menu key with one that looks like three dots in a vertical column.  When Chrome goes into "I need to be restarted to apply an update" mode for me there is nothing announced but the menu key itself will change color, which serves as an alert.  Try hitting ALT to throw focus on to the menu key and see if that doesn't potentially give you something.

             I'm really curious as to what this is, since it seems to be attached more to your Chrome browser than specific webpages, at least on the whole.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Dejan Ristic
 

What I can say is, try using an add-on called Objpad to see whether it can help you.

On 10/7/2016 6:17 PM, Dan Beaver wrote:
Hi,


More Chrome struggles.


I am now getting the statement "alert" spoken multiple times when I open a website. How do I read those alerts using NVDA? I can't seem to find a way.


Thanks.


Dan Beaver



.
Dan Beaver
 

Hi, I was just about to send this so here it is:


It turns out that I did not have popups turned off like I thought I had.  My wife said a popup was showing up at the bottom of the screen but to NVDA it was just showing as a graphic with an x link below it.  The x link dismisses the popup.   This behavior is different than Firefox so that is why I didn't notice it.


Now that popups are truly off I am not hearing the alert message at all.


Thanks again.


Dan Beaver


On 10/7/2016 3:27 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

Dan,

            Please do report back with the final result as far as cause and fix.

            One other thing just struck me, could it be that you have an update to Chrome itself waiting?  They recently replaced the conventional hamburger/pancake stack menu key with one that looks like three dots in a vertical column.  When Chrome goes into "I need to be restarted to apply an update" mode for me there is nothing announced but the menu key itself will change color, which serves as an alert.  Try hitting ALT to throw focus on to the menu key and see if that doesn't potentially give you something.

             I'm really curious as to what this is, since it seems to be attached more to your Chrome browser than specific webpages, at least on the whole.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Dejan Ristic
 

I've just opened the same page, and nothing of the sort occurred. I expected to hear 'Alert' pronounced, but it did not come up, for I wished to catch up with it via Objpad. Sorry for saying the same.


On 10/7/2016 8:29 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

Dan,

          I get nothing that announces "Alert" when I navigate through to that page and I did not interrupt NVDA speech at all to be certain that I didn't cut this off before it might have occurred.  At first I had an operating theory that it might be ads that are creating these alerts, but even when I turned off Adblock Plus I still do not get them on that page when it loads in the latest version of Chrome (v 53.0.2785.143 m).

          If you have not scanned your machine recently with a malware detector such as Malwarebytes and/or a spyware detector such as Super AntiSpyware I would suggest you do so.  I had fully expected to hear what you're hearing and have visual elements popping up that correspond to same, but am not.  Just the generic nature of the message, "Alert," makes me wonder if you might have an infection of some kind.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Brian Vogel
 

Dan,

          Thanks for completing the circle with the information about the pop-up blocking feature not being active.  Someone else will almost certainly have this same problem sooner or later and it's helpful to have one likely problem-solution pair.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Gene
 

I don't know what a sighted person may or may not see when alert is spoken.  I seldom use Chrome.  But on the rare occasions when I've used it on Youtube, I've heard "alert" spoken when on a Youtube page where something was going to be streamed.  My speculation was that it might be telling me that I could skip the commercial if I wished.  This would have to be tested to see when alert may or may not be heard. 
 
This definitely is not related to an update.  I heard this months ago and not as a general announcement when using Chrome. 
 
Gene

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and Chrome and alerts

Dan,

            Please do report back with the final result as far as cause and fix.

            One other thing just struck me, could it be that you have an update to Chrome itself waiting?  They recently replaced the conventional hamburger/pancake stack menu key with one that looks like three dots in a vertical column.  When Chrome goes into "I need to be restarted to apply an update" mode for me there is nothing announced but the menu key itself will change color, which serves as an alert.  Try hitting ALT to throw focus on to the menu key and see if that doesn't potentially give you something.

             I'm really curious as to what this is, since it seems to be attached more to your Chrome browser than specific webpages, at least on the whole.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
Gene
 

I have popups off and I still had alert spoken when I played audio on a Youtube page.  There was no commercial played so my speculation appears to be wrong.  Whatever is generating the word alert to be spoken either isn't a commercial that can be skipped or there are more causes.  There may be something about the popup that is causing the word to be spoken but I don't think it is the popup itself.  It may be some structure or content in the popup.
 
Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: Gene
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and Chrome and alerts

I don't know what a sighted person may or may not see when alert is spoken.  I seldom use Chrome.  But on the rare occasions when I've used it on Youtube, I've heard "alert" spoken when on a Youtube page where something was going to be streamed.  My speculation was that it might be telling me that I could skip the commercial if I wished.  This would have to be tested to see when alert may or may not be heard. 
 
This definitely is not related to an update.  I heard this months ago and not as a general announcement when using Chrome. 
 
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and Chrome and alerts

Dan,

            Please do report back with the final result as far as cause and fix.

            One other thing just struck me, could it be that you have an update to Chrome itself waiting?  They recently replaced the conventional hamburger/pancake stack menu key with one that looks like three dots in a vertical column.  When Chrome goes into "I need to be restarted to apply an update" mode for me there is nothing announced but the menu key itself will change color, which serves as an alert.  Try hitting ALT to throw focus on to the menu key and see if that doesn't potentially give you something.

             I'm really curious as to what this is, since it seems to be attached more to your Chrome browser than specific webpages, at least on the whole.
--
Brian

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.

    ~ Lauren Bacall

    
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You have to watch those Lerts you know a tiny lert soon grows up and they breed quite fast.
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 5:17 PM
Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Chrome and alerts


Hi,


More Chrome struggles.


I am now getting the statement "alert" spoken multiple times when I open a website. How do I read those alerts using NVDA? I can't seem to find a way.


Thanks.


Dan Beaver
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and Chrome and alerts


Ok, here is one example:


http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Issues-Statement-on-Missionary-Preparations-for-Hurricane-Matthew/s/83404?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ldsliving



Dan Beaver


On 10/7/2016 12:56 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

OK, but still, can you give one or two webpages? It's much easier for
me to play with this using NVDA and the fact that I can also see
what's happening to come to a possible solution.

I fire up NVDA "on demand" when questions like this arise. Not having
to look for a specific example of what you're referring to by a brute
force search is helpful to me.
--
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*/Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
If you’re alive, it isn’t./*

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