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Re: Question: NVDA + keyboard behaving weird

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From: Weston Thayer
Date: May 22, 2020 12:43PM

Happy to help narrow it down if you can share a webpage that reproduces the
issue.

Note that NVDA since 2019.3.1 now has focus highlighting built in under
Settings > Visual.

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:09 AM Sudheer Babu < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hope you have focus highlighter(
> https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/focusHighlight.en.html) installed
> for NVDA, through which you can see where the actual focus is when tabbed
> with screen reader. I would also suggest trying out with a different screen
> reader quickly to check if it's the screen reader issue.
>
> Thanks,
> sudheer
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020, 10:00 PM Anuja Sinkar < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hi all, need your help on the following issue I am facing with NVDA:
> > I am experiencing situations where a user will navigate to a link on a
> page
> > with NVDA, but when activating the link, it actually activates the link
> > that the user had previously tabbed from. When used with just the
> keyboard
> > (no NVDA), tab to the link and press enter, it works as expected but
> works
> > strangely with keyboard + NVDA.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anuja
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >