So Brian as for the NVDA thing, I don't have that issue either. NVDA has only really crashed for me once or twice in God knows how many years. But this is the thing I don't like about Windows machines, hardware isn't consistent, and it conflicts with things like screen readers and possibly other software too. And don't get me started on sound cards. Mr Grieves, if I were you, I wouldn't use Narrator for everyday tasks. Just stick to NVDA. NVDA is far easier to use, and it doesn't have anything like that scan mode thing. The only reason I use Narrator occasionally is that it announces formatting information in Word better than NVDA and JAWS does. I literally activate it only when I'm in Word. I don't even use it to navigate round the system. It reminds me too much of VoiceOver for the Mac in some respects. I think it's that scan mode thing that does it. The only reason I keep upgrading JAWS every couple of years is just in case I need to use an app or website that doesn't work with either Narrator or NVDA. NVDA is my primary screen reader, and has been for about 5 years or more. Don't buy JAWS unless you don't have to. NVDA will do you for basic word processing, basic Google Docs, and browsing the internet with Brave. I don't use Edge, don't really like it. JAWS is only really good for more complex word processing like navigating textboxes and more complex tables etc.. JAWS is bloated and has features such as Research It (Wikipedia at the touch of a button), and Voice Assistant which might be useful for some people, but it would be nice if you could dictate text with it. As for the Research It thing, you can access Wikipedia using your browser anyway, no need for Research It at all. JAWS does have a text analyser thing which scans a document for inconsistencies like missing closing quotation marks or closing brackets etc.. But you could just use NVDA's document formatting announcements to pick up that stuff. There seems to be some good tutorials from the American Foundation for the Blind on using NVDA. I've checked out the stuff about Google Docs and that's pretty good, so I imagine the NVDA stuff would be good too.
Here's the link -and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-videos/learn-nvda
Find the heading titled 'Learn Tech: Assistive Technology Videos' and the links to all the tutorial pages start there. Maybe you could try reading this on a device you're comfortable with like an iPhone while learning. Hope that helps.
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