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Full History - 2022 - 05 - 26 - ID#uy6qj3
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Is this a feature on NVDA? (self.Blind)
submitted by ChipsAhoiMcCoy
So I was browsing through addons today for the first time, and I thought of one that might be pretty cool. Basically, If you are loosely familiar with a site, or hell, even if you don't know a site very well, but you know that most sites have a login button somewhere, or a support link somewhere, I think it would be pretty cool to utilize our voices to say what we want to do. For example, when going on reddit, I know I can use Ctrl+F to open the find menu and navigate to a create post button, but wouldn't it be pretty cool if we could hit a hotkey to speak what we want to do? I'm not sure if this would be possible, but I imagine it might b e? I suppose in the Reddit eample, I would go to a subreddit, hit the hotkey, and say "Create Post" and NVDA would automatically find that button for me, and click on it. Does this feature already exist? Might be something pretty cool to look into if not.

Thanks!
zersiax 1 points 1y ago
VoiceOver on the mac sort of does this with its webspots, but no, NVDA does not, to my knowledge. Not sure about JAWS, but I think there's scripts that do it for that screen reader.
retrolental_morose 1 points 1y ago
I can type what I want to find on the screen into the find box as you already mentioned. If you can't do that effectively you're going to want to use dictation and speech recognition more widely, not sure your use case is wide enough to really have much of an impact.
ChipsAhoiMcCoy [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Fair, I never really realized how powerful to find feature was I just tried it out on a site and it was honestly really nice I’m going to take advantage of that way more often now
retrolental_morose 1 points 1y ago
I do wish someone would write an addon to retain find selections per domain, though. That'd be cool.
TechnicalPragmatist 0 points 1y ago
Most would just fine it really quickly with their screen reader but that could be a feature for sure. Not sure how many people would use it though.
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