Time Zoner
- Author: Munawar Bijani
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- NVDA compatibility: 2019.2.1 and later
An add-on for NVDA to announce the time in selected timezones.
Introduction
For a very long time now, Windows has had the ability to show multiple clocks from different timezones. Users can customize the clocks and they become instantly visible.
Unfortunately, for users of screen readers such as NVDA or JAWS, there is no simple way to get this information. These screen readers don’t support additional clocks, so blind computer users have to resort to other, third-party solutions, some of which are paid.
A lot of the work I do involves working across timezones, and eventually I got tired of manually converting times in my head, especially for timezones that aren’t aligned to the hour (such as India which is +5:30 UTC).
For these reasons, I’ve created this add-on for NVDA. The add-on lets you hear times in selected timezones through the use of the timezone ring.
Usage
The add-on supports both the legacy and the Python 3 version of NVDA.
Once the add-on is installed, press NVDA+N to bring up NVDA’s context menu. Arrow down to “Preferences” and then up to “Time Zoner”.
Press ENTER on “Configure timezone ring”.
You will be presented with a dialog to set the timezones [...]