Hi,
Thank you for this. the change to that dialog seems to be quite recent at least
for me in 2016 and a definite regression in accessibility in my humble view. I
was just wondering if you’d forwarded your suggestions to Microsoft’s
accessibility team via twitter or some other means. I did tweet about it but
got no response sadly but should a tweet or some such appear I’d be glad to
join in on the reporting party again. They’re usually quite receptive and
responsive to such things so I was sad not to have received any when I
mentioned it to them. I do some transcription work in Word from time to time
and dealing with this spelling dialog is so cumbersome with JFW that I’ve now
taken to pasting my work into any program still using the older style dialog
for editing and then putting it back into Word for saving once done. It’s a
mess for sure. Oy!
Glad it wasn’t just me.
Robin
From: David Goldfield
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:39 PM
To: Philadelphia Computer Users Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Spell Checker in Word 2013 and 2016: Identifying
the Misspelled Word
During our last phone meeting, a question came up regarding how to cause NVDA
to speak the misspelled word when using the spell checker in Word 2013 and Word
2016. These newer versions of Word don't use the older spell check dialog we
were used to and getting the screen reader to speak the misspelled word seemed
much harder than it should have been.
With NVDA, the way to do this is fairly unintuitive and I wish we could see
some work, either by Microsoft or with NV Access, to make this solution more
intuitive. The keystroke, at least to get NVDA to speak the word the first
time, is insert+numpad 4. This moves the review cursor to what is called the
previous navigator object and the word will be spoken. However, this works when
you are focused on the "ignore once" button, which is the first button which
usually comes into focus when you press f7. Once you press insert+numpad 4, you
must then press insert+numpad 5 to hear the word repeated. What would be nice
is if Microsoft could include a read-only edit field containing the misspelled
word but later versions of Word do not include this feature.
With JAWS, pressing insert+f7 speaks the incorrect word, along with the
suggestions.
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