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configuring nvda for internet explorer
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Joe Giovanelli
Hello, All,
I'm running Win7 Pro. NVDA does work properly with Internet Explorer. I do not understand many of the menus in NVDA. I need to know how to set them up so I can use IE successfully? Thank you very much for your thoughts. Joe Giovanelli
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Gene
Do you know how to find things in the help
system? The users guide explains all the configuration items. While
you may want to change a setting or two outside of the document formatting menu,
that's were the settings almost all are that you might want to change, if you do
want to change settings.
The settings you would want to change deal with
what is announced such as tables, block quotes, headings and other features as
you move through a web page. If you look at the settings in document
formatting, you will see a lot of things you can have or not have
announced.
Gene
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From: Joe Giovanelli
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:16 AM
Subject: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet
explorer I'm running Win7 Pro. NVDA does work properly with Internet Explorer. I do not understand many of the menus in NVDA. I need to know how to set them up so I can use IE successfully? Thank you very much for your thoughts. Joe Giovanelli
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Joe Giovanelli
Hello, Gene,
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Thank you for writing. My difficulty with NVDA is that I do not understand the concepts well enough to know what will happen when I change items in the browser or document formatting preferences. I do not know what embedded objects, banner landmarks or frames are. I changed some things and made matters worse. I reset them, however. I hope this makes my message make more sense. Joe Giovanelli
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From: Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 13:31 Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer
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Gene
I don't know if the user's guide explains the
concepts enough for you to understand them. I haven't read that section of
the guide to any extent. I also don't know what you would want to
hear. You might want to hear things I don't.
Do you know much about web page navigation? I
can tell you things I would turn off. I consider block quotes to be
useless unless you are doing something such as writing a paper and it might be
useful to know. For ordinary listening, it would be as absurd as having a
sighted reader read such things as block quote aloud every time they
appeared. It's a way of quoting material in terms of format. I
usually don't want to hear headings announced but you might. Do you know
how to move by headings on a page, whether they are announced or not? Of
course, links should be announced. There may be instances such as when
readingt a Wikipedia article with a lot of links in the text where you might
want to turn this announcement off. I just about never do. I have
gotten used to hearing the word link before a link and I just leave it
on. I learned to use the Internet efficiently long before Aria
landmarks were available and I never use then and I have their announcement
off. Those who use Aria landmarks may want to comment on how they use them
if that would help you decide.
Since I don't know what you know about Internet
page navigation, at this point it isn't clear to me whether you just need help
with settings or whether you should use some sort of instructional material to
learn to navigate the Internet well and that would probably tell you what all
these items are and how they are used in navigation. Embedded objects
probably wouldn't be explained unless the instructional material dealt
specifically with NVDA on the Internet. But you could read about embedded
objects in the users guide. I know they are covered
there.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Giovanelli
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet
explorer Thank you for writing. My difficulty with NVDA is that I do not understand the concepts well enough to know what will happen when I change items in the browser or document formatting preferences. I do not know what embedded objects, banner landmarks or frames are. I changed some things and made matters worse. I reset them, however. I hope this makes my message make more sense. Joe Giovanelli ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene <gsasner@...> To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 13:31 Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer > > > Do you know how to find things in the help system? The users guide explains all the configuration items. While you may want to change a setting or two outside of the document formatting menu, that's were the settings almost all are that you might want to change, if you do want to change settings. > > The settings you would want to change deal with what is announced such as tables, block quotes, headings and other features as you move through a web page. If you look at the settings in document formatting, you will see a lot of things you can have or not have announced. > > Gene > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Joe Giovanelli > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:16 AM > To: main@TechTalk.groups.io > Subject: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer > > > Hello, All, > > I'm running Win7 Pro. NVDA does work properly with Internet Explorer. > > I do not understand many of the menus in NVDA. I need to know how to set them up so I can use IE successfully? > > Thank you very much for your thoughts. > > Joe Giovanelli > > > >
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Joe Giovanelli
Hi, Gene,
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I routinely navigate the Net with System Access. Thanks to you, I can go back into the menus and turn things off. With them gone, maybe navigating will work as expected. Joe G.
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From: Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 16:35 Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer
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Joe Giovanelli
Gene, I did the things you suggested. Navigation is still poor. I tried doing work in PayPal and I'd get to approximately where I needed to go and then I'd hear two links s;poken. Of course, I had no idea which one I was focused on. I had to tab and shift-tab to get to the right one. I didn't find fields to fill out or for me to continue to the next step.
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System Access handles this and most other sites better than NVDA. Maybe there's a computer issue. I don't have a clue. I really thank you for working with me. Joe G.
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From: Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 16:35 Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer
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Gene
I've used System Access to Go, JAWS and Window-eyes
as well as NVDA. NVDA doesn't perform worse on the Internet than any of
the other screen-readers I've mentioned..
You may have heard two links because they are both on the
same line of the web page. To prevent this, go into browse mode settings
and tab to a check box that says use screen layout when supported. Uncheck
it with the space bar. Then tab to and activate the ok button. Then
save the settings. JAWS and Window-eyes have this setting as well but I
don't know what they call it. When you turn off this option, it means that
every link is displayed on a separate line. I'm not sure what other problems
you may be having but they can probably all be worked out. There are cases
now and then when one screen-reader works better on a certain site than
another. I doubt this is the case with Pay Pal since many blind NVDA users
use it.
Gene
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From: Joe Giovanelli
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet
explorer System Access handles this and most other sites better than NVDA. Maybe there's a computer issue. I don't have a clue. I really thank you for working with me. Joe G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene <gsasner@...> To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 16:35 Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer > > > I don't know if the user's guide explains the concepts enough for you to understand them. I haven't read that section of the guide to any extent. I also don't know what you would want to hear. You might want to hear things I don't. > > Do you know much about web page navigation? I can tell you things I would turn off. I consider block quotes to be useless unless you are doing something such as writing a paper and it might be useful to know. For ordinary listening, it would be as absurd as having a sighted reader read such things as block quote aloud every time they appeared. It's a way of quoting material in terms of format. I usually don't want to hear headings announced but you might. Do you know how to move by headings on a page, whether they are announced or not? Of course, links should be announced. There may be instances such as when readingt a Wikipedia article with a lot of links in the text where you might want to turn this announcement off. I just about never do. I have gotten used to hearing the word link before a link and I just leave it on. I learned to use the Internet efficiently long before Aria landmarks were available and I never use then and I have their announcement off. Th! ose who use Aria landmarks may want to comment on how they use them if that would help you decide. > > Since I don't know what you know about Internet page navigation, at this point it isn't clear to me whether you just need help with settings or whether you should use some sort of instructional material to learn to navigate the Internet well and that would probably tell you what all these items are and how they are used in navigation. Embedded objects probably wouldn't be explained unless the instructional material dealt specifically with NVDA on the Internet. But you could read about embedded objects in the users guide. I know they are covered there. > > Gene > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joe Giovanelli > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 3:14 PM > To: main@TechTalk.groups.io > Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer > > > Hello, Gene, > > Thank you for writing. > > My difficulty with NVDA is that I do not understand the concepts well enough to know what will happen when I change items in the browser or document formatting preferences. > > I do not know what embedded objects, banner landmarks or frames are. > > I changed some things and made matters worse. I reset them, however. > > I hope this makes my message make more sense. > > Joe Giovanelli > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gene <gsasner@...> > To: main@TechTalk.groups.io > Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 13:31 > Subject: Re: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer > > > > > > > Do you know how to find things in the help system? The users guide explains all the configuration items. While you may want to change a setting or two outside of the document formatting menu, that's were the settings almost all are that you might want to change, if you do want to change settings. > > > > The settings you would want to change deal with what is announced such as tables, block quotes, headings and other features as you move through a web page. If you look at the settings in document formatting, you will see a lot of things you can have or not have announced. > > > > Gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: Joe Giovanelli > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:16 AM > > To: main@TechTalk.groups.io > > Subject: [TechTalk] configuring nvda for internet explorer > > > > > > Hello, All, > > > > I'm running Win7 Pro. NVDA does work properly with Internet Explorer. > > > > I do not understand many of the menus in NVDA. I need to know how to set them up so I can use IE successfully? > > > > Thank you very much for your thoughts. > > > > Joe Giovanelli > > > > > > > > > > > >
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