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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 11, 2018 3:31PM

The JAWS visual tracker is an option in verbosity and is only available on Windows 10.

There is a focus plugin for NVDA that is useful to show where it is.
https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/focusHighlight.en.html

Jonathan

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On Oct 11, 2018, at 4:58 PM, David Engebretson Jr < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

"should" is the optimal word... *smile*

What you describe is what I do but there are intermittent issues. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It looks like the virtual tracker is enabled by default for all browsers. Does NVDA have similar functionality? I haven't found anything about it in documentation.

Are there certain types of elements that just won't allow a screen reader to virtually and visually track at the same time?

I'm wondering if Fusion might be a good way to go. Fusion wouldn't allow the virtual cursor to not track the visuals, right?

Thanks for your thoughts,
David