Hello everybody

I want to create a profile which contains several options

one of the options I would like to change is to turn on the highlight system focus from the vision category on NVDA settings. that problem is that when I return to the normal configuration profile, this setting keeps on running.

is there anything I can do to make sure that when I choose for example the accessibility testing profile, the highlight of system focus and other settings from the vision category we'll turn off?

Thanks in advance

 

 

I've done a little with profiles and this may help.  When you create the new profile, change whatever you want to change.  Then, while you are still in the new profile, save it using NVDA key control c.  In the small amount of using profiles I've done, that appears to permanently save the settings for the profile you are creating or adjusting.

Gene

Hello everybody

I want to create a profile which contains several options

one of the options I would like to change is to turn on the highlight system focus from the vision category on NVDA settings. that problem is that when I return to the normal configuration profile, this setting keeps on running.

is there anything I can do to make sure that when I choose for example the accessibility testing profile, the highlight of system focus and other settings from the vision category we'll turn off?

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

Hi Gene

Thank you for your  answer

I followed your suggestions and saved my configuration after making the changes for each profile

But unfortunately when I am returning to the normal profile the system focus highlight keeps running

 

 

 

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2022 4:47 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Configuration profiles

 

I've done a little with profiles and this may help.  When you create the new profile, change whatever you want to change.  Then, while you are still in the new profile, save it using NVDA key control c.  In the small amount of using profiles I've done, that appears to permanently save the settings for the profile you are creating or adjusting.

Gene

On 4/16/2022 3:42 AM, Eilana Benish wrote:

Hello everybody

I want to create a profile which contains several options

one of the options I would like to change is to turn on the highlight system focus from the vision category on NVDA settings. that problem is that when I return to the normal configuration profile, this setting keeps on running.

is there anything I can do to make sure that when I choose for example the accessibility testing profile, the highlight of system focus and other settings from the vision category we'll turn off?

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

 

Perhaps there is something about that command that doesn't change once it is on.  You could try turning it off once you are in the normal profile again and, if you haven't made other changes in the normal profile that you don't want to save, try saving it using the same command.  If you are sure you won't be saving settings you changed in that profile, it won't do any harm and it may solve the problem.

Gene

On 4/16/2022 8:55 AM, Eilana Benish wrote:

Hi Gene

Thank you for your  answer

I followed your suggestions and saved my configuration after making the changes for each profile

But unfortunately when I am returning to the normal profile the system focus highlight keeps running

 

 

 

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2022 4:47 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Configuration profiles

 

I've done a little with profiles and this may help.  When you create the new profile, change whatever you want to change.  Then, while you are still in the new profile, save it using NVDA key control c.  In the small amount of using profiles I've done, that appears to permanently save the settings for the profile you are creating or adjusting.

Gene

On 4/16/2022 3:42 AM, Eilana Benish wrote:

Hello everybody

I want to create a profile which contains several options

one of the options I would like to change is to turn on the highlight system focus from the vision category on NVDA settings. that problem is that when I return to the normal configuration profile, this setting keeps on running.

is there anything I can do to make sure that when I choose for example the accessibility testing profile, the highlight of system focus and other settings from the vision category we'll turn off?

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

 

Hi Gene

Thank you for your  answer

I followed your suggestions and saved my configuration after making the changes for each profile

But unfortunately when I am returning to the normal profile the system focus highlight keeps running

I've done a little with profiles and this may help.  When you create the new profile, change whatever you want to change.  Then, while you are still in the new profile, save it using NVDA key control c.  In the small amount of using profiles I've done, that appears to permanently save the settings for the profile you are creating or adjusting.

Gene

Hello everybody

I want to create a profile which contains several options

one of the options I would like to change is to turn on the highlight system focus from the vision category on NVDA settings. that problem is that when I return to the normal configuration profile, this setting keeps on running.

is there anything I can do to make sure that when I choose for example the accessibility testing profile, the highlight of system focus and other settings from the vision category we'll turn off?

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

Eilana Benish wrote:

I think Sarah is right
Apparently, these settings cannot be changed when moving between profiles.

Eilana, both Gene and I have demonstrated that they can be. Me with manual profiles, and Gene with triggered profiles.
This is either user error, or something related to your system.

Please follow the steps I outlined where it worked perfectly for me, and report back your results.

Also, while I don't know of any add-on with the potential to interfere with this, try running with add-ons disabled just to check.

I hope that NVDA developers we'll implement these options in the near future

They are already implemented.

Andluke, I'm using the most latest version of NVDA 2021.3.5

No changes have been made to profiles or vision settings since 2020.4, so your copy should be able to do this.

If you wish, start NVDA with debug level logging enabled (on the quit/exit menu), and try to do what you have been trying to do. Then restart NVDA, and send me the file at %temp%\nvda-old.log, off list, and I'll take a look at what may be going on.

But please only do that after you have tried the things suggested above.

Luke

Luke is this with Win10 or Win11?

Dave


On 4/16/2022 1:47 PM, Luke Davis wrote:

Eilana Benish wrote:

I think Sarah is right
Apparently, these settings cannot be changed when moving between profiles.

Eilana, both Gene and I have demonstrated that they can be. Me with manual profiles, and Gene with triggered profiles.
This is either user error, or something related to your system.

Please follow the steps I outlined where it worked perfectly for me, and report back your results.

Also, while I don't know of any add-on with the potential to interfere with this, try running with add-ons disabled just to check.

I hope that NVDA developers we'll implement these options in the near future

They are already implemented.

Andluke, I'm using the most latest version of NVDA 2021.3.5

No changes have been made to profiles or vision settings since 2020.4, so your copy should be able to do this.

If you wish, start NVDA with debug level logging enabled (on the quit/exit menu), and try to do what you have been trying to do. Then restart NVDA, and send me the file at %temp%\nvda-old.log, off list, and I'll take a look at what may be going on.

But please only do that after you have tried the things suggested above.

Luke

What version of NVDA are you using?

Running the latest alpha, I did the following steps:

1. Checked that highlighting was off (NVDA+n, p, s, v, tab).

2. Created a new manually triggered profile called testprof. In the trigger for
editing dialog which appears as the last step in creation, I chose Yes.

3. I changed voice variant, to be sure that I could tell when this profile was
triggered by what the voice sounded like. That is an E-Speak thing; you could
use any other speech characteristic such as rate or volume, if you don't use
E-Speak.

4. I turned highlighting on (NVDA+n, p, s, v, tab, space, enter). While doing
so,
NVDA's configuration dialogs were telling me that I was editing the testprof
profile.

5. I switched back to the normal profile (NVDA+n, c, up arrow to top, enter). I
could tell that worked because the voice changed back; and I saved configuration
(NVDA+Ctrl+c).

6. I checked highlighting again and found that it had turned back off.

7. I switched back to testprof (NVDA+n, c, down arrow to testprof, enter), and
confirmed I was in it by hearing the voice change.

8. I checked highlighting again and found that it was turned on again.

9. I restarted NVDA, and confirmed that in the normal profile the highlighting
was off.

10. I switched to testprof and confirmed that highlighting was on.

11. I switched back to normal profile and confirmed that highlighting was off.

All of this seems to indicate that highlighting settings save in profiles as
expected with latest NVDA.

Oh, lastly I went back in, and set to use only system focus highlighting, as you
are trying to do, and confirmed that everything still worked as above. It does.

Luke