[nvda] Re: NVDA and the System Tray

On Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:43 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Brian Gaff <bglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


But in xp and nvda and many other readers, some of the tray items
seem not to be there at all. I note in one machine its like Russian roulette if you get the wireless dongle connection indication or not and the windows 
update  warning or not.
Oh, your description was more than correct, and that kind of issues are very frustrating when introducing Windows and some screen reader to a newbie, for instance. That's why I have been forced to tell someone that it should work like this, but it allways doesn't. But still the system tray isn't very often the first issue that is handled when introducing Windows to newbies, but in my opinion it should be handled later when the other basic Windows features have been introduced. The system tray is a Windows toolbar like others, and many application features are practically unaccessible with a screen reader without it. Very often there are situations when applications only visible in the system tray have to be permanently or temporarily disabled or enabled. Recently, fir instance, I had an application called OE-QuoteFix disabled to be able to use OE in its original way, and now QuoteFix is enabled again through the system tray. The other way to do that would have been closing of OE, starting it without QuoteFix, closing it again and re-starting it with QuoteFix. But thanks to the system tray toolbar it hasn't to be like that. 


Its as if they splurge over each other.
And the worst thing is that it may vary from one machine to another and also depending on which applications are running and which are not. But perhaps that is something one has to live with when using screen readers etc. 

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