Win 10 / NVDA portable 2019.2 / Laptop layout
Hello. with the title setting on I notice the following odd behaviour. If I click on an empty area on the desktop and press some keys, for example "xyz" then space, NVDA will rread out "xyz" as if this was a text document and I had typed these four keys.
This happens in other apps. For example in File Explorer if I press "a" and no file begins with "a", then press space, I hear that "a" being read out.
In NVDA's own speech viewer I can type characters into the read-only output, press space and hear them read back.
This doesn't seem to happen when the pressed key has a legitimate effect. For example, if I press "a" in FileExplorer and there actually is a file beginning with "a" for the focus to move to, then when I press space I won't hear that "a" spoken back to me.
If however there is only one file beginning with "a", and I press "a" three times then space, I will hear two "a"s. If there are two files then I can press "a" multiple times and not hear any of them read back to me when I press space.
Narrator didn't do this. It only spoke the words I had typed if they were typed into a valid text box.
It has also gotten me a bit worried for security reasons. If NVDA can read out the "hello" I typed into the desktop, or its own speech viewer, then clearly that "hello" I typed must be being stored somewhere. Do I need to worry about password security for instance?
Thanks.
Win 10 / NVDA portable 2019.2 / Laptop layout
Hello. with the title setting on I notice the following odd behaviour. If I click on an empty area on the desktop and press some keys, for example "xyz" then space, NVDA will rread out "xyz" as if this was a text document and I had typed these four keys.
This happens in other apps. For example in File Explorer if I press "a" and no file begins with "a", then press space, I hear that "a" being read out.
In NVDA's own speech viewer I can type characters into the read-only output, press space and hear them read back.
This doesn't seem to happen when the pressed key has a legitimate effect. For example, if I press "a" in FileExplorer and there actually is a file beginning with "a" for the focus to move to, then when I press space I won't hear that "a" spoken back to me.
If however there is only one file beginning with "a", and I press "a" three times then space, I will hear two "a"s. If there are two files then I can press "a" multiple times and not hear any of them read back to me when I press space.
Narrator didn't do this. It only spoke the words I had typed if they were typed into a valid text box.
It has also gotten me a bit worried for security reasons. If NVDA can read out the "hello" I typed into the desktop, or its own speech viewer, then clearly that "hello" I typed must be being stored somewhere. Do I need to worry about password security for instance?
Thanks.