Windows Magnifier
- Author: Cyrille Bougot
- NVDA compatibility: 2018.3 and beyond
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This add-on improves the use of Windows Magnifier with NVDA.
Features
- Allows to report the result of some native Magnifier keyboard commands.
- Allows to reduce the cases where table navigation commands conflict with Magnifier’s commands.
- Adds some keyboard shortcuts to toggle various Magnifier options.
Settings
The setting panel of Windows Magnifier add-on allows to configure how NVDA reacts to native Windows Magnifier commands.
You may want to have more or less commands reported according to what you are able to see.
This panel may be opened choosing Preferences -> Settings in the NVDA menu and then selecting the Windows Magnifier category in the Settings window.
The keyboard shortcut NVDA+Windows+O then O also allows to open this settings panel directly.
The panel contains the following options:
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Report view moves: controls what is reported when you move the view with Control+Alt+Arrows commands. The three options are:
- Off: Nothing is reported.
- With speech: a speech message indicates the position of the zoomed view on the dimension the view is being moved.
- With tones: a tone is played and its pitch indicates the position of the zoomed view on the dimension the view is being moved.
This option only affects full view mode.
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