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I just had a really weird thought. What if NVDA had a generic settings ring? You know, like the synth settings ring, but for other random stuff? Kinda like the rotor on iOS or similar. You can choose what settings go in there and then you use one set of finger twisting set of combinations of keys to modify a whole group of settings rather than assigning a bunch of individual settings to multiple different singular finger twistingly complicated hotkeys.
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I'm annoyed that #NVDASR uses previous and next review mode, so you need 2 hotkeys to cycle between them. Most everything else is a loop (punctuation, speech mode, etc). I jump between screen and object quite a lot and it annoys me every single time that I can't just cycle.
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@cachondo Ah. I think the reason it is this way is that sometimes you get other review modes aside from those two, for example in web pages.
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which ... in no way validates a redesign of the usage pattern.
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@cachondo Nah, I agree with you, I'm just thinking on why it may have been designed this way initially.
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sorry, I don't see how having an extra mode makes any difference to the way it was designed.
I guess using something other than the JAWS cursor was pretty important in the early days; object navigation was needed in a lot of places and it's logical to code a way of accessing that simply. But the more features we add the more keys we need. Just seems a shame there's no cycle through review modes option.

Doubtless it's 30 minutes work to put in. I don't have a whole NVDA development stack setup here or I'd have a poke at it. Perhaps I'd find it's a great spaghetti monster and that's why no-one's touched it!

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@cachondo I suppose what they could do, which would be a little hacky, is just make those previous/next review mode commands wrap.
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@cachondo That's why I've been using the Objnav add-on. It cycles between normal, object nav, web, and scan modes. It's fabulous.
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@cachondo Here's an add-on to do this, default keystroke is NVDA+Shift+R but can be remapped: dropbox.com/scl/fi/y4g1m0jykjk… @masonasons
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@jscholes I've bound the original previous and next keys to it now. No change in my usage but I can always press either to hop. Beautiful. This should be in core honestly.
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