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Question about navigating with NVDA (self.Blind)
submitted by stuffitupyourbum
I've been using NVDA for a while now, but mostly on pdf or Google documents. I've recently come across a website that I use on a regular basis, where the main page has a very large (non collapsible) left hand side navigation menu, and the page content is on the right hand side. It seems to be difficult for me to navigate to the content on the right without having to go through the menu items. I am not sure if I have made an error setting up my NV, or if this is expected behaviour based on my settings. Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you!
Emmenias 2 points 1y ago
The best way to navigate with NVDA is to completely ignore what's on the screen. What's on the left or on the right doesn't help you one bit.y From the perspective of your screen reader, it's all just one straight long document.
So instead of thinking how to jump to the right, think of how to jump to the conetent you need. Is the large menu a list? Pressing comma will get you to the end of it. Does the main content start with a heading (it usually does)? Then press h and you'll get there. You can also press d and see what landmarks there are, press e to get to the search box below the menu (if there is one), etc.
Which website is this? We'll be able to offer more specific advice if we can take a look ourselves.
So instead of thinking how to jump to the right, think of how to jump to the conetent you need. Is the large menu a list? Pressing comma will get you to the end of it. Does the main content start with a heading (it usually does)? Then press h and you'll get there. You can also press d and see what landmarks there are, press e to get to the search box below the menu (if there is one), etc.
Which website is this? We'll be able to offer more specific advice if we can take a look ourselves.
zersiax 2 points 1y ago
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Hard to say without seeing the website, OP. NVDA does not split the page up like the visual CSS would do, it goes entirely by the semantics of the website in question, so you'd need to know if the right-side content has some kind of semantic identifier NVDA can quickly jump to. Think landmark, heading, table, graphic, form field, etc. etc.
Hard to say without seeing the website, OP. NVDA does not split the page up like the visual CSS would do, it goes entirely by the semantics of the website in question, so you'd need to know if the right-side content has some kind of semantic identifier NVDA can quickly jump to. Think landmark, heading, table, graphic, form field, etc. etc.
stuffitupyourbum [OP] 1 points 1y ago
These are all very helpful comments, thanks to everyone for your input!
I'm trying to move some of my teaching material online, so I am using the help center documents on a website called thinkific to learn how to do this. It seems that on some of the pages I am fine, but on some I have trouble navigating.
I'm trying to move some of my teaching material online, so I am using the help center documents on a website called thinkific to learn how to do this. It seems that on some of the pages I am fine, but on some I have trouble navigating.
problematic_coffee 1 points 1y ago
Can you move by headings (by pressing letter H) or by other elements like that?
Sometimes the most random element helps me to skip past a menu with NVDA.
Sometimes the most random element helps me to skip past a menu with NVDA.
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