I started a forum in a facebook page using a smartphone Android as self training learner.
I have three facebook pages in all of them I focuses mainly posting opinions,ideas,comments and analysis which talks about arms/weapons; wars;defense and security.
One page;Westway Analysis is like a forum where anyone can share an opinion,comments views about international affairs.
Another one Unite Leaders;tells about leaders coming together in tackling regional issues as an immediate pre requisites avert conflicts.
The last one is The Parent; which expresses commitments and responsibilities; as an inevitable factor that minimizes tendencies of many becoming lawless and disorderly a situation that easily manifests into a wider social tensions and conflicts.
It is my hobby sole and interest to interact through writing my opinion;views; ideas; comments; analysis etc using the mentioned above pages in facebook google and twitter about international affairs such as;
the current proliferation of weapons
the rampant defense spendings of both the first and third and world
the ignored priority to climate change related issues,in preference to state/national defense programmes leading to a wasteful arms race.
and the enviromental related issues like the pollution of the sea; the the atmosphere; and the land'

Narrator is too verbose in lists. The best way to see this is to go to the Microsoft accessibility user voice main page and look through the list of hot ideas. Insure you are in scan mode. Narrator will say "List start list item x of C". It does this repeatedly as I arrow through the list. This is especially annoying if there is more text associated with the list item. What I would prefer to have spoken is "List start" to indicate I'm entering a list, and just the list item with the word bullet if it's a bulleted list." It doesn't need to tell me the position in the list with each item as I know already I'm in a list. It can also not say list item every time as well.

When I open an existing Word file, the Voiceover cursor is on the document layout area. To get to the text, I need to interact, then interact again, before Voiceover says “in edit text”.

And if the document has headers, I need to interact, which takes me to the header area, then move down to the text, then interact again.

Would it be possible, when opening a file, to start with the Voiceover cursor on the text area? This is probably where most users want to be when they open a file – ready to start reading or typing.

I currently have the initial position of the Voiceover cursor set to “Keyboard focused item”.

Narrator is supported in more than 20 languages, however there are many others where Narrator is not supported. It means, that some keyboard commands should be changed manualy if we wanted Narrator to work. examples are Narrator key +brackets. In Slovenian keyboard layout we must press ctrl + alt +f/g or alt(gr) +f/g to type square brackets.
If you have only one computer, it will be easy to customise a Narrator but if you had more than five, this procedure would become very frustrated.
so until Narrator has not been supported and localised to Slovenian and other languages, I suggest you to make Narrator settings and keyboard commands exportable. When this will be enabled we are going to setup customised set of settings for Narrator on only one computer and then we will be able to import this set into others.

anyway, thanks for your good work.

Jožef

When installing another antivirus product, Windows Defender deactivates itself. Since having two or more screen readers running at the same time impacts negatively on performance and keyboard usability, Narrator should also close and deactivate itself automatically when it detects that the user started another screen reader and configured one to start automatically, before and/or after logon, on the Ease of Access Control Panel applet.
This would prevent situations like the following:
1. When upgrading to new Insider Preview builds, if the user left Narrator turned on to watch the installation progress, it starts automatically after logging on, even when the user have another screen reader configured to start automatically.
2. If a user who recently installed Windows turns on Narrator and set it to start automatically until they install a more advanced screen reader, if that user signed in with a Microsoft account and have accessibility setting synchronization enabled, they'll find Narrator starts automatically in other devices that have a more advanced screen readers.

Thanks a lot for this “forum”!

I was Binging around and ran across this Microsoft page by accident. I learned about Narrator's development keystroke Caps Lock Plus Shift Plus F12, which causes everything on the screen that is invisible to narrator to also become invisible to the sighted developer. Now, that there is a super awesome feature. Those of us who use apps, and run across one that's not accessible need to be able to email the developer to complain. A good way to do this would be a Microsoft "fix-your-accessibility" app, that would put in some boiler-plate info about your accessibility checking tools for app developers, and the end user could then fill in personal information, including details about their issues using that app. The "fix-your-accessibility" app would then automatically email the developer, thereby promoting your accessibility testing tools even more. All apps should be as accessible as Windows 10 mail!

When using Word for Mac with the Voiceover screen reader, I encounter three problems:

1) If I move the Voiceover focus to the panel that contains the mis-spelt word, and interact with the text, I can delete and/or re-type the mis-spelt word. However, Voiceover goes silent when I do so, making it very hard to know if I have properly corrected the word.

2) When using the Tab key to move through the dialogue, Voiceover frequently fails to announce the “Ignore” button.

3) When I click on one of the buttons – such as “Ignore” – the spell check moves on to the next mis-spelt word, but doesn’t announce anything. And, the Voiceover focus remains on whichever button I just clicked. It would be more helpful if the focus moved back to the start of the dialogue, and Voiceover said something, such as “not in dictionary”, as it does for the first mis-spelt word.

Currently trying to take the virtual academy course in PowerShell. Tried IE, FireFox, Edge and Chrome; Chrome works the best. Tried NVDA, Narrator and JAWS; JAWS works the best. The control-semicolon keystroke does bring up an accessible view of the slide presentation. But after the first video for the first lesson is done playing (around an hour) there is no play button. I've toggled autoplay on and off, and have gone through the slides and the table of contents. I've pressed ENTER on different items in the contents; nothing plays. I guess the play button is some inaccessible graphic an/or clickable element.
Also there are Next elements that are clickable but they are tied to ads for free trials of Microsoft enterprise products, so when I click Next I get a free trial ad instead of the next lesson. Again I think this is a problem with how the accessibility is coded and not with the site.
Because PowerShell is such an accessible language for the screen reader user, and a great employable skill for us to succeed at, I am disappointed the virtual academy course for it is so difficult itself to access. I don't have a problem with the syntax being shown on the slides as pictures; I can always look those up; it's the concepts I want to watch the videos for.

The advanced display settings have been removed from Windows Version 1703. These include: "Clear Type Text" settings and "Advanced Sizing of Text and Other Items" settings. Version 1607 had these settings. Please bring them back to help accommodate the visually impaired. The Clear Type Settings help you to read the ext in a darker type. The Advance Sizing settings help to improve reading the title bars, Menus, message Boxes, pallete titles, Icon, and tool tips text, as you could increase the font size and add bolding to the text. I really miss these features and implore you to bring them back.