KeyboardEvents

KeyboardEvents add-on - provides sound and speech notifications when performing standard keyboard commands (copy, paste, cut, etc.).

Features

• Different types of notifications for each command:
  • Speech message
  • Sound signal (WAV file)
  • Beep with customizable parameters
  • No notification
• Support for basic commands:
  • Copy (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Insert)
  • Paste (Ctrl+V, Shift+Insert)
  • Cut (Ctrl+X, Shift+Delete)
  • Undo (Ctrl+Z)
  • Redo (Ctrl+Y)
  • Select all (Ctrl+A)
  • Screenshot (Print Screen)
• Flexible beep parameter settings

Usage

After installation, the KeyboardEvents add-on works automatically.
When performing supported commands, you will receive the selected type of notification.

Configuration

1. Open NVDA > Menu > Preferences > Settings > KeyboardEvents
2. For each command, select the notification type:
   • Off - no notification
   • Speech - voice announcement of the action
   • Sound - playback of WAV file
   • Beep - sound signal with customizable parameters

When selecting "Beep", the following options become available:
- Frequency (Hz) - from 100 to 5000 Hz
- Duration (ms) - from 50 to 1000 ms

Ignoring command announcements in applications:

After each list with notification type selection, single-line text fields are available where you can enter the process names of applications in which the selected command announcement should be muted.

• Default exceptions are configured for Firefox/Chrome (Control+C) and Telegram/WhatsApp (Shift+Delete).

Simply enter process names separated by commas in the appropriate fields.
For example, for users of UnigramPlus and WhatsAppPlus add-ons, to prevent the Shift+Delete command from being announced as "Cut",
in the corresponding field, enter the process name for Unigram - which is "telegram", for WhatsApp Desktop - which is "whatsapp".
So it should look like: "telegram, whatsapp".

For example, in web browsers, NVDA's native functionality announces the phrase "Copied to clipboard:" after pressing Control+C, followed automatically by the copied text.
To prevent the add-on from duplicating the announcement of the "Copied" command, simply add all your working web browser processes to the appropriate field.

Supported Commands

Known Issues

• Some sound cards may incorrectly reproduce short beeps

Changelog:

25.08.23

• Settings now include functionality to ignore announcing pressed key combinations in specific programs and applications.
• Fixed the issue in web browsers with copying selected text in plain view using Control+C to clipboard.
• treeInterceptor now always executes for both Control+C and Control+Insert. This ensures standard NVDA behavior for copying plain text representation in both cases.

25.07.21

• First release.