Comment 1 by jteh on 2010-12-20 00:20
Tending towards a wontfix. We normally avoid adding specific commands like this, as the information is easily available elsewhere (in this case, in the system notification area of the taskbar). Battery status reading is a very special case, as it is so commonly required. If we add this, it sets a precedent for other system status reading commands.
Changes:
Milestone changed from None to None

Comment 2 by nvdakor on 2014-05-03 03:02
Hi,
Coming back to this one...
There are three workarounds:

1. If using Windows 8.x, this can be obtained easily from Settings charm by looking at list of wireless networks. The signal strength is given as number of bars out of five.
2. For other Windows versions, either looking at notification area of wireless status will work.
3. One can work out a code to do this, then bundle this into an add-on (which I will not do because we're running out of keyboard commands).

Comment 3 by jteh on 2014-12-02 06:18
Do sighted users have easy access to this without clicking something? If so, where?

Do sighted users have easy access to this without clicking something? If so, where?

Yes, in Windows 10 it is part of the visual appearance of the Wi-Fi icon in the taskbar.
So for Windows 10 there is some motivation to add a hotkey.

Fair enough. I think we'd take code for this, but it's not a priority for us.

Any updates on this?

Add-on made.
Code: https://github.com/ruifontes/networkStrenght
Add-on: https://github.com/ruifontes/networkStrenght/releases/download/1.0/networkStrenght-1.0.nvda-addon

Better use direct wlanapi calls instead of netsh, as implemented in this addon:
https://github.com/kvark128/WlanReporter/releases/download/2019.12.22/WlanReporter-2019.12.22.nvda-addon
The shortcut can be assigned in the category System status, in Input gestures dialog.

Since there are add-ons addressing this issue I'm going to close it.