[Nfbktad] Still Trying to figure out NVDA

[Gatton, Tonia (OFB-LV)]

April, it's too complicated to attempt to train you via email.  The main thing I'm noticing though is that it sounds like you're still trying to use the mouse too.  That's at least part of your problem.  With the screen readers, you need to learn and use the keyboard commands to navigate documents and web pages.

For the tutorials, you might try adjusting the volume on your computer, listening to them with your headphones, or downloading them to a thumb drive to listen to in your NLS digital player or another MP3 player.  There are several to choose from various authors; so keep looking if you continue to have trouble with the one's you currently have.  Otherwise, you can always come to the Center for some AT training.

Tonia  

Tonia Gatton
Assistive Technology Specialist
KY Office for the blind
Charles W McDowell Center
8412 Westport Road
Louisville, KY 40242
800-346-2115
(502) 429-4460 ext 224
(502) 429-7113 fax
tonia.gatton at ky.gov

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From: Nfbktad [mailto:nfbktad-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of April Brown
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:42 AM
To: nfbktad at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbktad] Still Trying to figure out NVDA

Hello,

 

     I am still trying to figure out how to use NVDA.    

     I have downloaded some tutorials, and could not hear them because they were male low toned voices.  What little I could comprehend, they didn't tell me how to open a page and get it to read.  They kept listing long lists of keys.

 

      I can partially get it to work in Word documents.  I can roll over a paragraph and get it to read that paragraph.  Sometimes, if I get lucky, or unlucky, it will read one line at a time, and then I can push the down arrow, and it will read the next line.  If I can't read along, I can't tell when it has reached the end of the line.  And like today, when I would check my email, and go back to the complicate Word document I am trying to have read to me, it would jump back up two or three pages.

    If I open Outlook, and try to get it to read a message, it will read the subject, sender, receiver, and date.  It will not read the message.  

 

     I have almost the same problem with Firefox.  I can occasionally get it to read a line, or part of a line of text on a website, if I position the cursor just right.  If I try to use the down page button, it jumps every which way.

     What am I missing?  How can I get it to read from the top of a Word document (email, web page) to the end?

Thank you,

 

 

April Brown

 

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.

 



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