![]() ![]() I highly recommend anyone who wants to get round settings in Android quickly, use this method, as it is sometimes quicker than clicking down several levels of menu items. When I typed “Not” without the quotes, the first search item at the top of the screen was, you guessed it, Pulse Light Notification. If you tap that, you get a search box where you can start typing a setting. I don’t know what it looks like visually, but Talkback, my screen reader, says Search Settings. This can be found if you open Settings, then look towards the top right of the screen. Something I use every day in Android, is the Search Settings feature. The Co-host, Ted Salmon was talking about this setting being buried deep in menus. The setting in question was Pulse Light Notification. They were talking about a setting in Android being hidden deeply in menus, so you had to go way down to find it. It can be found at Steve Litchfield’s Site. This one came out of a podcast I was listening to, which I highly recommend, called Phones Show Chat. This is the first of what I hope to be several tech tips, as I discover them, or tips for things I use on a daily basis. Thanks to Steve Litchfield and Ted Salmon for a great podcast. I agree with what Steve and Ted said in the podcast, that Google need to implement a way to switch off this doze mode, or battery optimisation mode if you like, completely. I say this is a partial solution, because notifications are still not instant, but they do arrive a lot quicker. Then make sure that all the apps for which you want to receive notifications quickly are not battery optimised. Go into Settings, then Battery, and turn off the two options labelled Adaptive Battery and Battery Saver. The partial solution is to do the following:. On the Phones Show Chat Podcast, and they were talking about this very problem. So last week, I was listening to Steve Litchfield and Ted Salmon I sometimes have my iPhone and my Android phone sitting together and notice that the iPhone will receive news alerts, WhatsApp messages, texts etc, very much quicker than my Google Pixel 4XL. One of the few things that annoys me about the Android operating system is the general delay that occurs when the phone is locked, goes into Dose Mode, and you receive notifications. Get Notified Quicker In Android The Problem Now, every time you are in the Zoom application, the volume should be set to the lower level that you set, increasing again when you alt tab to another application. Now tab to the volume slider and reduce it as much as you like, then tab to Apply and press enter, then OK and press Enter. If you hear Normal Configuration, then make sure Zoom has focus before you do it. So press Control+NVDA+V to get straight to the voice settings, and you should hear something like Voice Settings Zoom Configuration. Now we can go into NVDA’s voice settings, and set the volume. Now you have created a profile called Zoom and any changes you make in NVDA settings, will apply only to that profile, while Zoom is in focus. Next tab to Apply and press enter, then OK and press enter. Arrow down to Current Configuration: Zoom, or whatever app you have in focus at the time, Zoom in our example. Manual is the default, but we don’t want that. You should reach “Use this profile for” and some radio buttons. ![]() In the Profile name, you can enter what you want, but if you leave it blank, the next step will fill it in for you. So the best thing to do is to open Zoom first, then go to Configuration Profiles. You may either press the NVDA key and N to reach the NVDA menu, then arrow down to Configuration Profiles and press enter, or simply press Control+NVDA+P to get straight there. To reach the Profile Configuration menu can be done in two ways. As with JAWS, this is a two part process, in which we first need to create the configuration profile, then apply it to Zoom. In our example here, we want to decrease the volume of NVDA when running Zoom. So what are configuration profiles?Ĭonfiguration profiles give NVDA the ability to customise settings on a per application basis. I intend here to do the same, using NVDA’s configuration profiles. On Brian’s page, he outlines how to reduce the volume of JAWS in a Zoom meeting by using voice profiles. I got the idea from Brian Hartgen, who is doing this kind of thing for JAWS at Brian’s Tips Page. This is the first of some occasional screen reader tips.
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