That's strange, you should definitely be seeing more. I know some windows can overshadow the steam window. Have you tried using OCR? That is my main way of navigating it.
There isn't much navigating done though, other than launching games I haven't played in a while that aren't in my quick launch list when you go to steam in the taskbar, or relocating the default library for those times I accidentally unplugging my harddrive and launch a steam game, woopsy.
To view achievements and friends and such I usually go either online or through the steam phone app. I mean both are a little wanky, but only an inconvenience.
Come to think of it, the notification you got in your email might've been a steamguard code and now it prompts you for it, though given you're able to play a game on steam, this seems highly unlikely. You should probably translate it.

I'm having a similar problem... except in my case NVDA OCR definitely works.
But pprotip... just ignore the Steam client. Use your browser if you gotta download stuff or look at achievements, and launch your games from the desktop icons.

Something I've found as  aworkaround is....

Open Run, or make a shortcut.

"C:\program files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch XXXXXX

Where xxxxx is the app ID. You get that from the browser, for example if Game A is 123456, you'd do

"C:\program files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 123456 and any other options you desire.

Also, @Dark: Look into the Choice of Games bundles on Steam. They are entirely playable all the way through, I got their support to transfer my ownershi to the COG site, since I hated Steam, but now I got a W10 VM up and rolling, I'll give it another go.

You can just do the steam.exe -appalucnh whatever after firing up Steam, so you don't need to grapple with the client at all, too.

Glad you got things to work!

Yeah, Steam is not what I would call a joy to use, you can thankfully manage to get it going enough that you can install games. If there's anything good I can say about it is that very slowly things are improving though this is more by sheer accident than anything else I think. More parts of the app are updated to use the new web UI, and apparently this will also eventually happen to the library as well.

The Steam UI, even with no-dwrite is very temperamental. On the 2 computers I tried while making the guide, it always launched to the store after installation, but it looks like this isn't always the case.

I'll probably add this to the guide, hopefully it'll help. There are 2 ways of getting to the store, or the friends section if you closed it. The first is that Steam has a menu bar at the top of the window. If you switch to screen review and keep going up, you'll eventually see it, it'll have a menu for Steam, view, friends, games and help. Below that is your name, and you might also see a number here if you have pending friend requests. Further below that will be another menu bar, with store, library, community and your name on it. You can root your mouse to one of these to navigate, but because this is a menu as soon as you root the mouse there it'll automatically expand and change the screen on you with more options which is confusing.

So, the fastest way to get to the store or any major section of the app is via the system tray icon. Close the steam window if it's open, Find the system tray icon, do a right click by either pressing applications or Shift+F10, and then use screen review to select and click on an option. You'll see a few of the games you played recently, plus a few shortcuts to quickly find your friends, store, library and to exit steam.

Lastly, DLC soundtracks. Like someone already said they're downloaded to the game's directory under the SteamApps folder, which will generally be something like
D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SEQUENCESTORM\soundtrack

This is where it's on my computer, and if you installed Steam to the default folder it's where you should be able to find it as well. They're just MP3 files, so should play fine in any media player.

HTH!

Hi.

Yep, I know that problem as well, sometimes you can't see anything with NVDA in the steam window. For me, a change from object to screen review often does the trick and if this doesn't help, completely killing the steam process and restarting it helps. You then should have your menu bar and games list from which you can launch them, change settings, backup and validate steam files and so on and so forth.

Greetings Moritz.

That'd be good if someone who is familiar with Steam can look at this remotely to check what is happening.

You can look at your achievements on the website.  I have the Steam client installed and literally do everything on the website after that point, I never interact with the client other than mashing enter when installing.  To look at your achievements on the website, be logged in and go to the "You and friends" section, then click on games from there.  Click on the game - it's a graphic above your play time and under tha tit the game title - then click on your personal achievements and you'll get to see what you've gotten, and what you need to get.

And yeah, go to the Sequence Storm page on the website, it should say "This game is already in your library" and a play now link will be there, reinstall it.  I have a feeling you may have uninstalled the full version of the game when messing with Steam itself somehow.

But seriously, do everything from the browser for Steam after this point.  It'll make your life so much easier.  You can do everything on the website you can do on the client.

Hey dark.
Can you go to desktop, then go to your notification area, and then find steam.
Then, press NVDA + slash on numbpad, which moves your mouse onto steam in your notification bar. then press right click,, which is multiply on your numbpad, then go to object view , NVDA + 1, then OCR. you should be able to see the list of games you've launched recently. what do you have there.
Also you're using NVDA on windows 10, and NVDA OCR built in, correct?