Brief summary

When I disable all follow modes, I expect the view to no longer follow anything and remain freezed, so that I can

• interract with speech/braille feedback while keeping an eye on something, e.g. Excel total cell
• keep an untagged scanned document (e.g. PDF music sheet) fix to read it visually while I write useful information (e.g. guitar chords) for myself in a more accessible document, e.g. text file.

Steps to reproduce

• Launch magnifier
• Assign a gesture to Toggle all follow modes for the magnifier, e.g. NVDA+shift+A.
• Either with mouse or with paning commands (NVDA+alt+arrows), center the zone of interest to be seen, e.g. inaccessible image.
• Toggle all follow modes off
• Open Notepad and write something in it

Actual behavior

The view follows the system cursor

Expected behavior

Given I have disabled all follow modes, I expect the view not to no longer track anything so it should remain freezed.
The solution is probably to add a system caret follow mode.

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments

N/A

NVDA type

source copy

NVDA version

source-master-bcd5eb6 (2026.2.0.0)

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

No. Follow modes with their associated gestures have just been introduced.

Windows version

Windows 11 23H2 (AMD64) build 22631.6783

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue

N/A

Other information about your system

N/A

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

I have not restarted my computer

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

I have restarted NVDA with add-ons disabled and the issue still occurs

Does the issue still occur after you run the System Accessibility Repair Tool (COM Registration Fixing Tool in older versions) in NVDA's tools menu?

I have not run the System Accessibility Repair Tool