NVDA's scan mode not working everywhere.
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Hi,
What 6ou are looking for is already available: ObjPad add-on.
Cheers,
Jospeh
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Mujtaba Merchant
Correction it’s called Browse mode and not Scan mode for NVDA, the Scan mode is available in Narrator. Sorry nothing to add to help with a solution. I would be interested to know what settings are you trying to change and if this is on a Windows 11 computer?
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"Hello. Today, while navigating the Settings app with NVDA, I noticed I couldn't activate the scan mode. I know scan mode is intended for web content, and that NVDA doesn't typically use it outside the web. However, when I use Narrator in the same app, it announces the settings as headings, and I can move around using the up/down arrows. I can even use single-key navigation shortcuts, like pressing 'E' to jump to the next edit field. Is it feasible to integrate this kind of functionality into NVDA, or would that be an inefficient approach? Best regards."
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muhammed ali çiçek
I've found that NVDA's Browse Mode is limited to the web, but Narrator's Scan Mode works universally in places like the Settings app, Notepad, and the Taskbar.
Is there an NVDA setting or feature that allows for this broader "scan" functionality across non-web applications?
Regards,"
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jacob kruger
Screen review mode, or flat review mode, but, if you want to just use cursor keys, and you'd need to use something like objpad - that's if you want to interact with elements, or else, if you just want to scan contents using cursor keys, something like virtual review might help?
Jacob Kruger
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Steve Nutt
I don’t believe so. You’ve have to use object navigation as Joseph says.
Actually, as an aside, Narrator is really getting quite good now.
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Richard Wells
Why not use Virtual Review for this? https://github.com/ruifontes/virtualReview/releases/download/2025.07.12/virtualRevision-2025.07.12.nvda-addon
Gene Asner
something like press a button or work with some other control, you can't
do that in virtual review.
Gene
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Steve Nutt
From what I can see, it lets you review the screen, but you can’t perform any actions, like clicking, double clicking, etc. If I have that wrong, I apologise.
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Richard Wells
It will virtualize any focused window, allowing you to navigate with arrow keys, even if it only has static text. This is what scan mode does in Narrator, if my understanding is correct.
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Hi,
Not exactly – the idea behind Narrator’s scan mode is to review screen elements regardless of hierarchy as if you are using browse mode (after all, browse mode works by collecting elements present in complex documents and formatting it for ease of screen reader navigation). This is what ObjPad emulates with its own scan mode – it will navigate objects regardless of parent-child-sibling relationships. Narrator calls it “scan mode” because it scans the app interface, gathering elements and giving you a slightly more linear representation when in fact it is not (for example, Settings app in Windows is divided into columns yet Narrator’s scan mode and NVDA’s ObjPad add-on/scan mode presents the app interface in a linear way).
Browse mode is primarily used to navigate complex documents such as webpages. It is not really designed with scan mode like functionality in mind because not all apps can be thought of as documents.
Cheers,
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Sincerely.
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