[nvda] Re: NVDA and the System Tray

On Monday, June 23, 2008 10:19 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Chris Bruinenberg <chbruin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


the system tray issue has been updated as of late.
It doesn't bounce around anymore.
And finally I found how the access of the system tray menus differs from accessing them by JAWS, for instance: while tne Enter key opens the application selection menu in JAWS, the Application key (next to the left from the right Control key) does the same in NVDA, but Enter opens the application window, not the selection menu like "Open", "Close" etc. But the problem was that I never happened to test Win + B which seems to work differently when having the NVDA Keyboard Help on: it seems to activate the computer's Shut down menu instead of only telling what Win + B (or WinB) stands for. Could that be possible to change in later versions of NVDA, or should it work like this? But Win + B seems to work properly when the Keyboard Help is turned off.
In JAWS pressing the Application key in the system tray menus seems to do nothing at all, but OK, this is still NVDA, not JAWS. 


you can also left and right click as welll.
Seems so, but perhaps I am still 'too' familiar with JAWS and not so used in NVDA <smile>.
By joining this mailing list a bit earlier I could have avoided some trial and erros situations when using NVDA in computers without any screen readers installed. But I had no problems to run the Portable version of NVDA from an USB drive, and no problems to run the installed one, but my problems were related to my poor NVDA knowledge, not to NVDA itself. If I had used any commercial screen reader I would either have been forced to install a local license key or to use a dongle key (that i didn't have) or start the computer after every 40 minutes or so. And finally, I would have been forced to install some kind of video intercept manager to be able to run probably any other screen reader even from a portable device. But now, if somebody still wants some other screen reader than NVDA to be installed to his/her computer, I can run NVDA to get access to the installation procedure. And what is most important, when noticing how well I done it using NVDA they also may want to change their other screen reader to NVDA, or use their previous screen reader and NVDA to change to NVDA completely after being familiar enough with it. But sooner or later there will be nothing that couldn't be done using NVDA that only other screen readers have managed earlier. 

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