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Gary
Hello, My workplace uses Jabber extensively to chat internally. I have been using Thunderbird's built-in chat, but find that it occasionally scrambles my outgoing messages, which is very strange, annoying, and has to be with T-Bird specifically because I don't have this issue with any other software. For example, the line: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" Might be changed to: "ver the lazy dogThe quick brown fox jumps o" Obviously, this happens while I'm typing, but I have no way to know this. So, I guess this is a two part question: 1. Has anyone experienced this behavior and knows of a solution? 2. More importantly: does anyone know of a chat program, besides Thunderbird and Trillian, that works well with NVDA? I've tried mIRC and Pidgin, but both have issues with NVDA. Thanks! Gary
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Jonathan Milam
Hi Gary,
I am wondering if perhaps the insert key is being set to overwrite instead of inserting characters. I used to see this in Word myself, and a press of the insert key disabled this from happening. Apparently in Word, you can get into overwrite mode where when you type if is actually overwriting text instead of inserting it.
As for chat programs, I wonder how Miranda would work with NVDA? I haven’t tried it myself. Maybe try Instantbird as well?
Jonathan
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Gary
Hello,
My workplace uses Jabber extensively to chat internally. I have been using Thunderbird's built-in chat, but find that it occasionally scrambles my outgoing messages, which is very strange, annoying, and has to be with T-Bird specifically because I don't have this issue with any other software. For example, the line:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Might be changed to:
"ver the lazy dogThe quick brown fox jumps o"
Obviously, this happens while I'm typing, but I have no way to know this. So, I guess this is a two part question:
1. Has anyone experienced this behavior and knows of a solution?
2. More importantly: does anyone know of a chat program, besides Thunderbird and Trillian, that works well with NVDA? I've tried mIRC and Pidgin, but both have issues with NVDA.
Thanks!
Gary
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Gene
This is not caused by overwrite. In the
example, nothing is deleted. Characters are out of place.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Hi Gary,
I am wondering if perhaps the insert key is being set to overwrite instead of inserting characters. I used to see this in Word myself, and a press of the insert key disabled this from happening. Apparently in Word, you can get into overwrite mode where when you type if is actually overwriting text instead of inserting it.
As for chat programs, I wonder how Miranda would work with NVDA? I haven’t tried it myself. Maybe try Instantbird as well?
Jonathan From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Gary
Hello,
My workplace uses Jabber extensively to chat internally. I have been using Thunderbird's built-in chat, but find that it occasionally scrambles my outgoing messages, which is very strange, annoying, and has to be with T-Bird specifically because I don't have this issue with any other software. For example, the line:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Might be changed to:
"ver the lazy dogThe quick brown fox jumps o"
Obviously, this happens while I'm typing, but I have no way to know this. So, I guess this is a two part question:
1. Has anyone experienced this behavior and knows of a solution?
2. More importantly: does anyone know of a chat program, besides Thunderbird and Trillian, that works well with NVDA? I've tried mIRC and Pidgin, but both have issues with NVDA.
Thanks!
Gary
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Pete <emac00@...>
Have a try at Instantbird. I like that you can have messages from different senders as tabs or as separate windows. I used to use it a while ago, works with msn protocol as well as others.
On 4/18/2017 11:14 AM, Gary wrote:
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Gary
I wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you...Instant Bird is probably the most accessible chat software I've ever run across. Two thumbs up!
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Dennis L <dennisl1982@...>
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where do you get instant bird?
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Davy Cuppens
yes it is but a lot of services it has do not work anymore such as fb
messenger.
I wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you...Instant Bird is probably the
most accessible chat software I've ever run across. Two thumbs
up!
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