Mute automatic speech feedback

[nvaccessAuto]

Reported by tvalusek on 2009-11-26 08:38
Some screenreaders for mobile devices have an extremely useful feature for partially-sighting users - an option to mute automatic feedback issued during normal device use. However, all commands involving a dedicated "screenreader" key operate as usual, including voice feedback. That means one can silently navigate menus, and when there is an item with incomplete title shown, a screenreader command for reading current item can be used without re-enabling speech.

I'd like to see similar behavior in NVDA - a mode with no spoken feedback on ordinary key presses (including command keys such as TAB, Enter, Space etc.), but all NVDA commands involving NVDA key operating as usual. This could be useful for Braille users too. Virtual buffers should be automatically engaged in form mode when auto-feedback is muted, so that they don't interfere with common control of e.g. web browsers, PDF readers etc.

[nvaccessAuto]

Comment 1 by nvdakor on 2014-12-12 06:42
Hi,
Quite and old ticket, but commenting here as recent versions may impact this request:
Given that recent versions of NVDA allows gesture reassignment (#1532), this may not work as expected. A naïve way to implement this is to check for "nvda" for gesture.displayName every time keys are pressed. However, certain commands, especially from add-ons makes it hard to see this, as some of them doesn't use NVDA modifier at all for major commands (Magnifier add-on is an example). Also, this doesn't generalize to touch gestures.
Thanks.

[LeonarddeR]

This sounds a bit like sleep mode, but slightly different.
@josephsl: Since you commented, what do you think about this issue?

[Adriani90]

I think sort of a solution has been implemented in Fusion from Freedom Scientific. This works in connection with magnification feature.

[Adriani90]

I suggest assigning some gestures to fire speech announcement on current NVDA cursor position, current mouse position and current system focus position. Let's say I disable speech by NVDA+s, and then I navigate with the keyboard through a menu, I could press NVDA+ctrl+tab and NVDA would announce my focus. NVDA+left mouse click would announce the object under the mouse cursor. NVDA+shift+ctrl+tab would announce current object at NVDA cursor.

[josephsl]

Hi, instead of defining completely new gestures, I suggest using a flag in scripts to signal if this is subject to announcement or not. Thanks. From: Adriani90 <notifications@github.com> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 11:55 AM To: nvaccess/nvda <nvda@noreply.github.com> Cc: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com>; Mention <mention@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [nvaccess/nvda] Mute automatic speech feedback (#481) I suggest assigning some gestures to fire speech announcement on current NVDA cursor position, current mouse position and current system focus position. Let's say I disable speech by NVDA+s, and then I navigate with the keyboard through a menu, I could press NVDA+ctrl+tab and NVDA would announce my focus. NVDA+left mouse click would announce the object under the mouse cursor. NVDA+shift+ctrl+tab would announce current object at NVDA cursor. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#481 (comment)> , or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHgLkPeHvJF2CU4Q2kjL6lp4rEk6XMk-ks5uF5tngaJpZM4OaV3C> .

[bdorer]

This would be a great feature for visually impaired persons using magnification.

[Adriani90]

At least the part with the browse mode not being loaded automatically is already solved, you can turn off automatic load browse mode on page load in browse mode settings. However, I think there is no gesture implemented for that specific setting yet.