Knowing Where Your Window Is: A Small NVDA Add-on That Fills a JAWS Gap

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I press Windows+Up Arrow to maximize a window. Sometimes it maximizes. Sometimes the Windows 11 snap layout chooser pops up instead. Either way, NVDA doesn’t tell me which one happened unless I press Windows+Arrow keys again and listen to what NVDA says changed. There’s no way to just ask, “Is this window maximized?”

JAWS has this. When you press JAWS+T for the title, it tells you if the window is maximized. NVDA doesn’t. I checked the NVDA source code, the existing add-ons, and the open feature requests. Nobody had built this yet.

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Knowing Where Your Window Is: A Small NVDA Add-on That Fills a JAWS Gap