Hey NVDA power-users, how hard would it be to customize NVDA, via an add-on or otherwise, so that while browse mode is on, the Space key is passed through instead of simulating a click? I'm giving a talk tomorrow, and I'd like to use NVDA browse mode in Edge to check my place while going through my slides. But I have to press Space to advance through the slides.
And yeah, I guess I was being lazy, not finding the answer myself. Or maybe the stress of traveling (to the conference where I'll be speaking tomorrow) got to me.
@matt Nah, I don't think you were being lazy at all. The only reason I knew about this shortcut is because I hit it by mistake once, wondered what it did, then asked input help.
@tspivey You sure that's not a gesture that you manually bound to that keystroke? I opened my slide deck, and with browse mode turned on, pressing Shift+NVDA+Space gave me no feedback, and after that, Space wasn't passed through.
@tspivey Oh mind, something is weird about my keyboard. Oh never mind, something is weird about my keyboard. Using input help, I figured out that the Space in Caps+Shift+Space doesn't always get through.
@matt Does it have to be edge? If you can get access to PowerPoint desktop you can use page up and down. Plus a hotkey to quickly read speakers notes. I wouldn’t present without desktop PowerPoint.
@fastfinge Well I did my slides using a command-line utility that converts Markdown to HTML with JavaScript. But I guess I could still switch to PowerPoint.
@matt Ah never mind then. Thought you were in Google slides or something. I have the absolute luxury of a designer to help with my decks, so I’ve been able to just do everything in PowerPoint. If you don’t have help though, making slides that look acceptable in PowerPoint is a world of endless pain.
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