Mouse Echo Delay

NVDA's mouse tracking (NVDA+M) reads whatever passes under the pointer the instant it passes. With this add-on it waits until the mouse has stopped, so sweeping across the screen is quiet and only the spot you settle on is read.

Everything else about mouse tracking stays exactly as NVDA does it: moving around inside a paragraph does not repeat it, moving off onto a blank area lets it keep reading, "report object when mouse enters it" and the audio coordinates still work, and the text unit (character, word, line or paragraph) is still NVDA's own setting under Mouse settings. The add-on only holds NVDA's mouse event back until the mouse is still, then lets the same event through.

Settings

The Mouse Echo Delay category in NVDA menu > Preferences > Settings.

Add delay before mouse echo: the delay on or off. Off, mouse tracking is exactly as NVDA ships it.
Delay before mouse echo, in milliseconds: a number box. The up and down arrows change it by 10, or type any value from 0 (reads at once, like NVDA itself) to 10000 (ten seconds). 300 by default.

Like every NVDA setting, these follow configuration profiles.

Command

A command called Toggles the delay before mouse echo turns the delay on or off and announces the delay in effect. It has no key by default; assign one in NVDA's Input Gestures dialog, under the Mouse Echo Delay category.

Background

NV Access has an open feature request for exactly this (nvaccess/nvda issue 19372). Until it is part of NVDA, this add-on fills the gap; when it is, this add-on can retire.

Mouse Echo Delay

Settings

Command

Background

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