Hello Gordon
unfortunately Nvda has very few ways of interacting with the mouse.
First, there is no virtual mouse pointer like there is in Window-Eyes or
System Access for that matter, or be it with limited functionality when
I last used it. Back to Nvda, there is an add-on which may help, Vmouse,
which you can search for. I think it's £3 and they accept payments by
Paypal only. So in short, you cannot navigate the mouse with Nvda
without the use of third party add-ons like the above. Instead you use
what are called object navigation and flat review. The user guide,
available from the help menu, will explain all this to you. You can also
use the Commands Quick Reference, also available in the help menu, to
get yourself familiar with keys for object navigation and flat review.
Now for System Access, I understand they have a virtual mouse feature,
accessed with modifier-m. You can basically navigate the text on the
screen, as well as interact with objects, including left and right
clicking where appropriate. But this may have changed from when I last
used it, which was last year. Unfortunately I had to stop using System
Access as MalwareBytes Pro reported what I believe to be false positives
with some of the components that are to do with System Access. So for my
own security I abandoned it. This was a shame really as I quite liked
what both System Access and the System Access Mobile Network offered.
Hope this all helps.
Chris.
On 04/03/2013 11:11, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hi all
OK, I've taken the plunge. I have removed, permanently, my copy of Window-Eyes from
both my Asus eEPC net rook, and my Samgsung 17-inch notebook/laptop/Desktop. The latter
is a quite wonderful machine and I hav already tried using it with one of my play
out/studio packages, "Station Playlist & Studio Pro. I also plan to try it
with SAM Broadcaster 2013 which, I am happy to say, no longer uses non-Windows control
elements and which, with Window-Eyes at least, I have found to be extremely accessible.
But the reason for this message is to pose what some will, I am sur, consider
to be a very basic NVDA question. For that, I am sorry. However,
nevertheless, here goes:
1. How, with the exception of software which allows cursor movement and other
inbuilt navigation controls, can one intuitively and reliably, navigate the
screen in the same way as Window-Eyes does. That meaning how does one move,
and use, the mouse pointer in order to click on elements whose properties need
to be both verbalised and where there are elements such as combo boxes, radio
buttons buttons and other clickable events which are ussable with NVDA?
For example, to simplify this, a piece of software such as OTS AV DH requires
mouse navigation in order to both modify the properties of, and also add that
element to a user-definable position within your playlist?
Now that Window-Eyes jus confined to the history books as far as I am
concerned, my use of Window will require either NVDA or Systen Access. Lynne
bought me a stand-alone licence for System Access, so this will hopefully
provide me with enough options for both my professional requirements, and my
personal ones.
How then does one navigate by moving the mouse pointer when using NVDA and, if
it is possible, also System Access? The latter seems very restrictive in terms
of its interaction with all but the most basic software. However, I am more
than happy with my available options. I am only too happy to be shot of
Window-Eyes!
As I write, I am awaiting the authorisation letter from Access To Work so that
my equipment can b purchased. The case manager has already confirmed that the
items I requested will be the items I receive. So I guess I got lucky. Later
this week all being well, I will be the proud user of a Humanware Apex
BrailleNote. I am also awaiting the arrival of a Freedom Scientific Pearl
camera, plus the Openbook 9 software. I'm hoping that the Pearl will function
with other software as well on both Windows and OS X. Anyway, if anybody can
answer my questions if, that is, they can make sense of my babbling, I'd be
very grateful.
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