Hi Chris I appreciate your advice/instructions. But it ain't that simple I'm afraid. My version of NVDA was supplied on a thumb drive, as part of the InfoVox 3 speech suite for Windows. Updating it would screw up the thumb drive, and I'm not particularly disposed towards doing that given that my wife paid just under two hundred and fifty Pounds for the three-license thumb drive.
I'll look into updating NVDA if possible by installing it on the local system. But until now I haven't dared update it because I don't want my wife's purchase to become a brick, so to speak. So you'll understand, I hope, why I'm reluctant to spoil things and why I haven't as yet done the dastardly dded of updating. I need to find out whether the thumb drive can be updated and, if so, how. NVDA is quite primitive at this point for me. I'm not sure which version we have here but it most definitely doesn't have any options for native Braille support, I can assure you of that. Gordon On 4 Jun 2012, at 13:17, chris hallsworth <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Gordon please take a look again at NVDA very soon as it is obvious it's a while since you played with it. First of all, NVDA supports many Braille displays natively, as well as those supported by Brltty. Also most of the NVDA keys, if set to the laptop layout, involves use of the caps lock key. If you want further help please feel free to ask. Thanks! On 04/06/2012 11:45, Gordon Smith wrote: > I sincerely hope that Freedom, GW and the rest have seen what they're doing > with NVDA and are suitably worried. Maybe it'll convince them they need to > lower their extortionate prices. If not, I hope that NVDA, along with, of > course, Apple, eventually put them all out of business. > > I confess that I haven't really played with nVDA all that much yet, I'm still > walking that long and difficult road to recovery. But I'm starting to regain > my old enthusiasm for this sort of thing, slowly but surely. My problem at > the moment with NVDA is finding all of the reading keys. My primary Windows > machine is a Samsung Notebook which has a Japanese style keyboard. It took > me a while to get used too, but now I am just about there. But the point is > that I haven't yet memorised all of the NVDA keys and I've forgotten most of > the Window-Eyes laptop layout. As I'm sure you'll be aware, control of mouse > functions is essential for some of the modern Windos software. For that > reason I've had problems with some newer applications. > > My second major problem with NVDA is somewhat more difficult to resolve it > would seem. That being support for Braille displays. From what I've read, > NVDA doesn't natively support them at all, and you need to have another > application running, whose name I have forgotten. But even that would cause > problems for me I think if I need to go back to Window-Eyes for any reason. > I gather that it runs as a system service and, therefore, would be somewhat > difficult to terminate. That could cause a bit of a conflict with > Window-Eyes, even though WE relies on those rickety old dynamic link > libraries, (DLL) drivers. > > Gordon > > On 3 Jun 2012, at 17:11, chris hallsworth<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Oh sorry Lynn forgot to post it. Yes very impressed indeed and as usual it's > my full time reader. > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- > ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
