[access-uk] Re: Can any experienced NVDA users please advise
- From: "John Wilson" <j.wilson07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:32:32 -0000
Hello Mike,
Thanks for replying.
I know the NVDA search command. The problem's much more
basic than this. My copy of NVDA simply cannot "see"/report
any text on a website to me, other than that contained as
part of a link, so using the search command results in
nothing of any value happening.
I'll subscribe to the list you mention. Thanks for pointing
it out to me.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 1:36 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can any experienced NVDA users
please advise
John,
To search for something in a web page use NVDA's own search,
which you
reach by pressing control+caps lock+F. Then enter the text
and search.
To search again for the same text press control+caps
lock+F3.
Note for the above to work you need to have selected to use
caps lock as
an NVDA key as well as the keypad insert key.
I suggest you join the NVDA support list by sending a
message to:
nvda-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
With 'subscribe' in the subject line. They're a friendly
bunch and know
a lot more about NVDA than I do.
I use Ebay in Firefox and NVDA works fine for me.
Mike
On 23/01/2014 06:34, John Wilson wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've just downloaded and started to use NVDA with Windows
> 8.1 for the first time. The main problem I'm having is
> getting much of waht is on webpages read out to me.
>
> I have read the user guide through which is provided for
> NVDA but it doesn't help me with the below problem. It
> only
> seems to say that I should be able to both arrow and tab
> through WebPages and read everything on screen, which I
> certainly cannot do.
>
> For example, I use Ebay regularly
> and know what is (or should be) displayed on the screen
> and
> can be easily read with the arrow keys with JAWS. However,
> using NVDA, little or nothing can be read of the text on
> screen and only the various elements, e.g. links,
> editfields, etc, are ead
> by pressing the TAB key.
>
> Moreover, on Ebay, when I try to search for something, I
> am
> told by NVDA where the editbox is to type in the search
> string but when I do this and press ENTER nothing happens!
> I
> get no list of found items that can be read by NVDA. The
> same sort of thing happens on Google and other websites.
>
>
> I have read the user guide through which is provided for
> NVDA but it doesn't help me with the below problem. It
> only
> seems to say that I should be able to both arrow and tab
> through WebPages and read everything on screen, which I
> certainly cannot do.
>
> I have been a JAWS user for over 20 years and am well used
> to computers and the internet. However, Having downloaded
> the latest version of NVDA and tried to use WebPages with
> it, I find myself baffled! For example, I use Ebay
> regularly
> and know what is displayed on the screen and can be easily
> read with the arrow keys with JAWS. Using NVDA, little or
> nothing can be read of the text on screen and only the
> various elements, e.g. links, editfields, etc, can be read
> by pressing the TAB key.
>
> Moreover, on Ebay, when I try to search for something, I
> am
> told by NVDA where the editbox is to type in the search
> string but when I do this and press ENTER nothing happens!
> I
> get no list of found items that can be read by NVDA.
>
> Please explain how NVDA is supposed to work on WebPages so
> that all of the above information can be read and the
> webpage therefore understood in its entirety.
>
> I should also be grateful if you could point me to any
> spoken video or MP3 tutorials on how to use NVDA with the
> keyboard (not with a mouse), in particular in respect of
> the
> Internet. I have searched Google and Youtube but found
> little or nothing of any value. All I can find is people
> having similar problems to me getting the text of WebPages
> read out to them. Please listen to the below short Youtube
> video demonstrating the very problems I am having.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZG3lwCzXb0
>
> Hope you can help.
>
> John Wilson.
>
> Can anyone please explain how NVDA is supposed to work on
> WebPages so that all of the above-mentioned information
> can
> be read and the webpage therefore understood in its
> entirety.
>
> I should also be grateful if you could point me to any
> spoken video or MP3 tutorials on how to use NVDA with the
> keyboard (not with a mouse), in particular in respect of
> the
> Internet. I have searched Google and Youtube but found
> little or nothing of any real value. All I can find is
> people having similar problems to me getting the text of
> WebPages read out to them. Please listen to the below
> short
> Youtube video demonstrating the very problems I am having.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZG3lwCzXb0
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> John Wilson.
>
>
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