most of these answers can be found in the users guide
1: the symbol pronunciation dialogue is your best friend, and/or your punctuation level which can be changed by NVDA+P, or in one of the preference dialogues
2: NVDA+s, again your best friend
3: I personally can't actually help here, but I also do not use IE, so...
hopefully someone else can clarify this one, but regardless I'd recommend turning use screen layout off in browse mode settings to make controls actually show up separately
lastly, not knowing which keyboard layout you're using I can only recommend checking out the key reference, which can be accessed from the help menu
there is a section for mouse commands

you want to manage your addons? pres nvda + n, then tool, then manage addons. thanks for reading.

Hi Dark.
There is an Add-on that was made by ogomez92 that gets rid of "beeps" from NVDA+S, so speech is either turned on or off, rather than on, beeps, then off, which is very useful, and in my opinion, makes things a bit easier. You can get it at http://oriolgomez.com/files/speechNoBeeps.nvda-addon, if you're interested.

I don't understand why NVDA has a beep speech mode. They should remove that setting and have the hot key toggle speech on or off.

As for IE, pressing alt n will cause NVDA to set focus to the alert and read it. You can tab through the controls and press enter.

I'm not sure about performing mouse clicks. I would suggest that you read the manual thoroughly to get a basic idea of all the concepts. If you just want commands, look at the commands quick reference document in the NVDA help menu. Everything is neatly organized into headings. You can also use the input gestures dialogue under the preferences submenu to assign custom keyboard commands to diferent functions.

Hi,

Not much I can add, just to ask for clarification about the ' shut the NVDA voice off"  comment you made. It sounds like you want NVDA not to speak, but nvda+s, which turns speech off, is not what you want. What is the problem with that approach exactly? Nvda+s is similar to ctrl+0 in Supernova.
As for mouse clicks ...that has to do with the modes you still want to figure out but the gist of it is that you use objectNav or screenReview to go to the place on screen you want to click, use a command to bring the mouse to that location and than one to either left or right click. Hope that helps:)

@Family marrio, I did see that addon when I was having a look through the addons on the list, however I wasn't sure if it just got rid of the beeps option from mode switching with nvda s, or whether it actually got rid of all beeps, since some of the beeps I actually rather like.
I believe I  missunderstood what nvda s wwas for. I thought it was something to do with actual switching of config, but it seems effectively almost like the "voice off" command in supernova, or at least I used it that way when I was listening to stuff in vlc and didn't want track names announced.

@Rolvdwol, that seems a slightly long way around at the moment,and I'd rather not  mess too much with profiles etc until I'm doubly sure of what commands I'm using when.
Besides the  punctuation in NVda seems a  strange, since if I have smbols set to most or all contractions like I'm or isn't are pronounced i point m or isn point t which is rather odd.
It's just something that is going to take fiddling I think.

With regards to Firefox, I might try at some point, though for the moment I'll stick with ie while I'm getting used to the thing. One thing I don't like is the constant mentioning when I'm looking at web pages, that's a miner pest, particularly in games like Monster breeder that have space on the page.

@Zersiax, As I said with the mode switch thing, I wasn't exactly clear what it is for, but it does seem to work like the   voice off command.
With  respect to mouse movement, gathered the bit about the different object review modes, however I was wondering about doing things like streight clicks on  hotspots and the like, which is occasionally necessary with none standard controls, again this is something I'm  probably going to have to research.

I did download the obj pad addon which gives slightly less keyboard shortcut heavy wways of navigating object lists etc, which should help things.

@Hammer, yep, found the capitals option I rather like the beeps for capitals thing (hence why I don't want to turn the beeps mode off), however at the moment I'm only  capitals when I review by character. Since I do have a habbit of forgetting them, it is helpful to have them spoken when reading lines etc.

Again, these are all pretty much teething  troubles with configuration issues I think.   
I will say thanks  to everyone for the tips and people's patience with my noob questions.

In general I am however quite impressed with Nvda thus far.  I've always been meaning to try the thing, since I've very much approved of the project right from it's conception, but it's not really been a priority so long as what I was doing with Supernova was okay.

I'll talk about what has happened with  Supernova in another topic.

Thanks for that Socheat.

I've actually setup a new subfolder in  just for nvda related stuff .

One thing though. based on your comments about Jake Groseman's site and running nvda with the mobile George Sapi voice, I went to This page, however I didn't see any addons related to mobile use.
There were some interesting ones, in particular one for Sam and orphius, though when I downloaded them they were zip folders and I wasn't sure where to put them.

With nvda at the moment the two major things I'm having are firstly, if I accidently hit an advert box like one of the ones at the top of this page, I seem to get stuck between several different buttons off the page itself and sometimes can't get back to the text, and secondly, I'm missing Supernova's find function, where I could type in text and have the focus jump straight to it (I used it a lot on the forum).

I've tried ctrl f, but that seems a bit finicky, since when I hit "next" button in that toolbar and then press escape to get out of it, sometimes I@ve not moved.

I'd also like to get rid of this "blank line" thing, since it does make some pages a bit annoying to read with arrow keys, such as battles in Monbre.
Then again I've not been through all the tutorials and  various resources yet, so it's entirely possible I've missed something.

Hi Dark, here's the microsoft mobile addon for NVDA. http://***/Add-Ons/sapi5mobile.nvda-addon

NVDA control F is the find feature.
Then NVDA F3 repeats the search.

Go to preferences > browse mode, then enable the "Use screen layout (when supported)" option.
This will get rid of the blank lines in Internet Explorer.
Oddly the blank lines are gone in Firefox regardless of whether this option is on or off.
Some people like the option off because it ensures each link is on its own line, rather than matching the visual screen layout.
If you're one of those people, consider using Firefox which gets rid of the blank lines all the time.

HTH

look dark, Mozilla firefox was usefull with nvda, but internet explorer is having a bug in nvda, i thing use a nvda with mozilla firefox.

eex@Mayana, thanks for that. I was getting the command wrong, i thought it was ctrl f and was forgetting to press capslock.

@nidza07  thanks for the link, I've got the file now and it's working, I just changed the name of the extention and it was fine. Actually it seems odd that the addons on Nvda's own homepage didn't work like this but other ones do.

@Ian, . I did turn the layout thing off to get each link on a separate line  feels far more familiar to me from supernova.

I don't know about firefox at this point, it might be something to try later, but while I get the hang of this I'll stick with ie, since there are some functions in firefox which are rather         different, for example the bookmarks all being internal to the program (I like my  favourites folder on the desktop with goodness knows how many years worth of items and subfolders in , indeed the bookmarks function was one thing I didn't like in firefox, since as I said I do a lot of messing about in the favourites folder, including backing it up regularly.

Actually i  find it rather odd that firefox doesn't! work with favourites once it's set as the default browser, since favourites are just urls after all, though if I'm wrong feel free to let me know, I've not tried firefox for quite some time.

@Socheat, yep, I found that, and got the addon working, though reaction speed seems a little slower than expected with the mobile voice.
on the other hand, I do have the sam addon and have got orphius working, which is good. I've always liked orphius human sounding voices as a nice compromise between reaction speed and sound quality, and the fact dictionary and pronunciation is pretty good, especially for fantasy names.

The one thing I'm having with voices at the moment, apart from finding a good compromise between reaction speed and decent sound quality, is that a lot seem fairly quiet, especially when running a game like crazy party.

I've turned on audio ducking, which reminds me of how Voiceover works on Ios, though whether it lowers the sound too much when say I pick up an object in the game I'm not sure.

I've got the voice itself turned up to 100, still I'm just investigating voices currently and whether I stick with orphius or use something else I don't know.

That was one advantage to vocaliser actually, that the voices are high quality but the reaction speed pretty good, though whether the adon is worth actually paying seventy quid or so for it I'm not sure.