Long Form Reading Questions

[Shannon]

Hello, 

I have two questions about configuration for long form reading that I'm hoping I can get some insights on.

1. Is there a way to have NVDA continuously read all pages of a Word document? I am a writer by hobby and have not figured out how to make NVDA just continuously read content to me.

2. Is there a way to get NVDA to read all the text in a paragraph without stopping for bold or underlined text? Example: when reading the NV Access email about the shortcut keys for changing widows to full screen reisize it just stops reading when it got to the press "alt + spacebar" section.

Any tips people have on configuration for these two issues would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Shannon

[Sean Randall]

Hi Shannon

 

NVDA has a say all keystroke (NVDA plus down arrow in desktop or NVDA plus a in laptop layout). While reading, tapping the ctrl key will stop and put the cursor where you’re at, and tapping shift will allow you to pause and resume reading.

 

In terms of reading by paragraph, you can use control plus up/down on the web and in Word. You can also use alt plus up/down to go by sentence in some text editors and word processors.

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[Shannon]

Thank you so much! That worked great! :)

[Quentin Christensen]

Also re formatting, in NVDA's Document formatting settings you can choose which formatting you want to hear.  Press NVDA+control+d to open those settings, and basically anything checked on this page will be reported as it is found.

You can also adjust how much punctuation NVDA reads by pressing NVDA+p.

If you have a setup you particularly like either for Word or for this particular task, you can save it as a "Configuration profile".  See this post for how to do that: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-19th-august-2021/#Profiles

Kind regards

Quentin

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