Probably late on this one... but to get skype to have speakable menus, Press "alt+v, a," then press enter. On 10/27/2008 1:59 PM, Portia wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought I'd add to this. When I'm in a menu in Skype or Avast, > Nvda will just say, 1 of 12. 3 of 12. 4 of 12. > > It never says the name of the item. > > Portia > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hermann" > To: > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 6:58 AM > Subject: [nvda] Odd behavior of NVDA in some menus > > >> Hi, >> in some menus NVDA behaves incorrectly: >> It doesn't speak the menu items, just its state or its position >> within the structure: >> For example: "unavailable" "x of y", where "x" is the actual position >> of the item, and "y" is the number of items at all. >> However I don't hear the title of the item, so it's impossible to >> navigate. >> It happens in Cute-FTP and in the menu of the Avira virus scanner. >> It may happen in other programs, but this is what I've figured out. >> Is this known? What to do to work around it? >> Hermann >> To post messages to the list send email to >> nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To modify your NVDA Email settings go to: >> http://www.freelists.org/list/nvda >> Thank you for your continued support of Nonvisual Desktop Access, an >> open source free screen reader for Microsoft Windows: >> http://www.nvda-project.org/ >> To get the latest NVDA snapshot: >> http://www.nvda-project.org/snapshots/ >> Report bugs or make feature requests at: >> http://trac.nvda-project.org/ >> Message Archive: >> http://www.freelists.org/archives/nvda > > To post messages to the list send email to > nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To modify your NVDA Email settings go to: > http://www.freelists.org/list/nvda > Thank you for your continued support of Nonvisual Desktop Access, an > open source free screen reader for Microsoft Windows: > http://www.nvda-project.org/ > To get the latest NVDA snapshot: > http://www.nvda-project.org/snapshots/ > Report bugs or make feature requests at: > http://trac.nvda-project.org/ > Message Archive: > http://www.freelists.org/archives/nvda > > _________________________________________________________________ Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008