[infotech] Re: June-August Edition
- From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <infotech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:22:34 +0530
Gorden,
You need a physical mouse to use mouse related features of NVDA. See the
user guide for details.
Pranav
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On Behalf Of Gordon Atkinson
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:33 AM
To: infotech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [infotech] Re: June-August Edition
Hi Pranav,
Many thanks for the explanation.
Window-Eyes uses the numeric keypad to carry out mouse movements which I
find convenient and extremely easy to use.
Gordon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <infotech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 4:37 PM
Subject: [infotech] Re: June-August Edition
> Hi Gordon,
>
> The parent, child etc is to do with windows hierarchies. Your main window
> of
> an application is the parent window. Let us assume that you have a window
> titled Microsoft Word Document 1. This window has a number of controls
> like
> the ribbon bar, a status bar etc. Each control inside the window is
> another
> window. However, because the main window came first on the scene, it is
> called the parent window. You then go into the window and see the children
> like the title bar, the status bar etc.
>
> Take the ribbon bar. The ribbon bar has buttons and other controls inside
> that. Take the example of the button labeled "bold". For the "bold"
> button,
> the ribbon window is the parent while the word window is the grand parent.
>
> The reason you need to navigate this way in some applications is because
> they are poorly designed such that there is no other way of accessing the
> controls inside the main window. You can also use this way to explore the
> screen. Jaws can do something similar using its script utility mode and I
> am
> sure that Window Eyes will have a similar feature.
>
> As far as I know, NVDA does support moving the mouse. I do not know how.
>
> Pranav
>
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