Thanks, David. It certainly is frustrating that Spell-checker is less
user-friendly than formerly. Perhaps your tweet will help.
Jan
On 7/22/17, David Goldfield <dgoldfield1211@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I sent some tweets to @msftEnable which you may have already seen. I
requested that we have a read-only edit field when the proofing toolbar is
invoked, as it would be helpful to NVDA users for immediately identifying
the misspelled word or grammatical error and suggested that it could be a
toggle for users who don't want or need them. They replied publicly and said
they'd pass it on to the Office team.
And now we wait ...
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On 7/19/2017 2:10 AM, Robin Frost wrote:
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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