You might have pressed NVDA+alt+t which toggles Braille mode to switch between it's usual following the cursor and directly displaying speech output? If so, press that again. download.nvaccess.org/document…

@NVAccess That function may be useful if one is writing code for an NVDA addon for example, and one wants to see how the speech handles the output...but for me its a bothersome thing. Thanks for the help in that regard, it is appreciated.

Yes - like many features - very useful for what people need it for - but a surprise if you inadvertantly turn it on :) Happy to help!

@NVAccess This thread warms the cockles of my heart. So nice to see a company active on Mastodon, that actually responds to its product's users. 🫶

@GrahamDowns @NVAccess Yes, they are usually relatively fast to respond. I sometimes forget their mastohandle but I knew that if I used the hashtag of either NVDA or NVDASR, they might pick it up, as they're the devs of the screen reader. Thanks again for all the help given over time, not just this time. I reverted back to factory defaults because I needed something on that pc, and having to scroll through what the speech output took too long, but of course, then I lost my remote session to that pc. Still the Alt+NVDA+T keystroke would have fixed stuff better.

@GrahamDowns You're welcome - and yes, we follow both #NVDA and #NVDAsr, and definitely always try to be helpful :) And thanks @GrahamDowns for the kind words!