Hello

I am the first to admit that I am no advanced MS Word user. Running Word 2019,
Win 10 20H2, latest NVDA alpha (and earlier versions).

I am reviewing a protected document.
With UIA on, it contains the following line:

"
To that end, our client is proposes a settlement based on the following terms:
"

There is an obvious grammar error there. When I turn off UIA, I see that line
as:

"
To that end, our client is   deleted  proposes   inserted  not deleted  a   not inserted  settlement based on the following terms:
"

My question is: how am I to understand the final result of that line? It seems
as if it would be:

"
To that end, our client is a settlement based on the following terms:
"

Which makes even less sense than the original grammar error.

And then, reading character by character, yields a completely different
interpretation:

"
(First part the same)
i
s
space
deleted
p
inserted  not deleted
r
o
p
o
s
e
s
space
a
not inserted
space
s
e
t
t
l
e
m
e
n
t
(rest the same)
"

Which makes me think that now the line should be expected to look like:

"
To that end, our client is roposes a settlement based on the following terms:
"

(Where the final result has the "p" missing from "proposes", and includes the
word "a".)

But which does it actually look like?
Obviously this is a legal document, and before I complain about parts of it, I
should avoid looking like an idiot by complaining about what the final result is
meant to be, not partial edits that have already been inserted/deleted.

As a side note, thank God I turned off UIA, or I would have no idea that this
thing was covered with edits in the first place.

Luke

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 08:51 PM, Luke Davis wrote:

I guess that shouldn't be expected, as Brian pointed out.

-
Believe me, that was said without a trace of snark, too.  Depending on exactly how convoluted the editing was, it is very, very easy for that tracking to become very incomprehensible very quickly.  Lots of single character or functor word changes (e.g, is, a, of, in) not done at the same time but in back and forth makes things particularly crazy, and certain editors are far more structured in how they edit than others.

I always look at the text as it exists and if there are mistakes, remedying those, rather than trying to ferret out intent from edits.
--

Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044

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