Viena 64 and screen readers
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:45 am
Hello,
This is quite a specialized question, but I hope someone can help anyway.
I'm blind, and therefore use a screen reader, both the free NVDA and JAWS 2019 (August update)
I've been using Viena for a number of years on a HP Pavilion windows 7 home, service pack 1, 32-bit system, with 4 GB of ram and 1.6 GHZ processor, AMD Apu with Radiom TM graphic, with no discernable problems with regards to what the screen reader reads.
I have recently switched to a Dell XPS 13 Intel 1.88 GHZ, 8 GB ram, and Intel 620 Graphics, windows 10 1803 64-bit system.
When using the latest Viena 32-bit on my old system, accessing the list of presets is easy. I press f1, and the screen reader focuses on it. using up and down arrow keys, and left and right, I can navigate through instruments, presets, preset layers and samples individually.
using the 64-bit version on windows 10, however, gives a different result even though the program layout seems to be the same.
f1 no longer focuses on the tree view, and even when I focus on the presets panel buy tabbing to find it nothing is read. It's also hit and miss as to wether f4 focuses on the keyboard or not. Sometimes it doesn't work.
I was wondering if this was a 64-bit coding error, or something to do with the screen reader, or something else.
I contacted freedom scientific and NVDA support and have been advised that it's your issue not there's.
Just for fun I added Viena 32-bit to windows 10 and focus seems to be ok here.
Is there any way to re-exammmin this as switching thru presets or doing pretty much anything doesn't happen here.
Thanks and apologies for the long winded post.
Regards.
Melissa Cox
PS to be fare, accessing the preset list with NVDA is kind of an issue with NVDA too. is there any way to fix this or maybe add a specific thing for screen reader use?
Melissa Cox
This is quite a specialized question, but I hope someone can help anyway.
I'm blind, and therefore use a screen reader, both the free NVDA and JAWS 2019 (August update)
I've been using Viena for a number of years on a HP Pavilion windows 7 home, service pack 1, 32-bit system, with 4 GB of ram and 1.6 GHZ processor, AMD Apu with Radiom TM graphic, with no discernable problems with regards to what the screen reader reads.
I have recently switched to a Dell XPS 13 Intel 1.88 GHZ, 8 GB ram, and Intel 620 Graphics, windows 10 1803 64-bit system.
When using the latest Viena 32-bit on my old system, accessing the list of presets is easy. I press f1, and the screen reader focuses on it. using up and down arrow keys, and left and right, I can navigate through instruments, presets, preset layers and samples individually.
using the 64-bit version on windows 10, however, gives a different result even though the program layout seems to be the same.
f1 no longer focuses on the tree view, and even when I focus on the presets panel buy tabbing to find it nothing is read. It's also hit and miss as to wether f4 focuses on the keyboard or not. Sometimes it doesn't work.
I was wondering if this was a 64-bit coding error, or something to do with the screen reader, or something else.
I contacted freedom scientific and NVDA support and have been advised that it's your issue not there's.
Just for fun I added Viena 32-bit to windows 10 and focus seems to be ok here.
Is there any way to re-exammmin this as switching thru presets or doing pretty much anything doesn't happen here.
Thanks and apologies for the long winded post.
Regards.
Melissa Cox
PS to be fare, accessing the preset list with NVDA is kind of an issue with NVDA too. is there any way to fix this or maybe add a specific thing for screen reader use?
Melissa Cox