Emulate Numpad Mode

Introduction

This addon was made in response to a request from a user, that does not has numpad keys on his keyboard. Thus allowing him to benefit from the navigation feature of numpad keys.

So I think this addon will mostly be of interest for users that do not have a numeric keypad in their computer. You can choose one of the available forms or set of keys on the main keyboard, to have them emulate the numpad keys and their related commands, regarding review or object navigation.

Usage

After installing the addon, you will have three modes

Normal, Numpad and numbers mode, numbers mode is skipped by default, so mainly we have two modes normal and numpad .

you can toggle between these modes by NVDA+f4 shortcut. And as always you can modify this shortcut going to NVDA menu/preferences/input gestures/Emulate Numpad Mode.

The available forms that you can emulate them to numpad mode are

Every one of these forms will emulate

numpad7 numpad8 numpad9
numpad4 numpad5 numpad6
numpad1 numpad2 numpad3

Emulating their review or object navigation, used alone or with conjuction with the shift or NVDA keys.

Addon Settings

To access addon settings, go to: NVDA menu/preferences,
hit enter then e to go to Emulate Numpad Mode panel.

Final note:
Sometimes some addons may grab one or more of the gestures of the form. Hope you can manage that by either using another form, or removing the gesture from the theif addon, for until now I do not have other solutions.

Changes for 0.6

The addon was updated introducing lot of new ffeatures

Changes for 0.5

Changes for 0.4

Contributions