You're welcome - it has raised the issue of accessing text boxes again
though and we would like to make this easier so it's definitely something
we'll look at.

Kind regards

Quentin.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal@...> wrote:

Hi Quentin,



Many thanks for this workaround. The text boxes are not inline so I will
utilize your second approach. I have no control over the people who use
them. I have given them feedback but I do not hold out much hope for
change.



Pranav

*From:* nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] *On Behalf Of *Quentin
Christensen
*Sent:* Friday, July 22, 2016 6:23 AM
*To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io
*Subject:* Re: [nvda] Accessing text boxes in Microsoft Word



Hi Pranav,



Firstly, the ideal solution here (even using Jaws to be honest), is to
convince people not to use text boxes.



NVDA doesn't currently have a direct keystroke, it's something we could
look into. For now, though, there are still a couple of ways of reading
text boxes currently:



If the text boxes are positioned "in line with text", they can be found
within the text of the document. Currently they are identified as "slash"
though that's something we're working on.



Once you are in a text box (or picture or other object) you can press TAB
to move between them. You can add a text box into a document by pressing
alt+n, x, enter then press escape once (so you are out of the text itself
but the text box is still selected), then you can press TAB to move between
the objects in the document (this wraps so if you press TAB on the last
object in the document it will jump back to the first object). Be sure to
either delete the text box you added or not save changes to this document!



You can also use the accessibility checker, which is handy for finding
things but I'll warn you it's not the most direct route: In Word 2016 you
can get to this from the "tell me what you want to do" edit box by pressing
alt+q and typing "check", but from 2013 (or from 2016) you can press alt+f
(file menu), then i (info tab), then i (inspect document) then down arrow
to check accessibility. This opens the check accessibility task pane but
unfortunately puts the focus back in your document so you need to press
F6. This shows any accessibility issues, so if you down arrow through the
details it will say "Warning" then "objects not inline", then "text box 2"
(not sure why, they all seem to be called text box 2?). Press enter on
that text box and press SHIFT+F6 to jump back to your document with the
text box selected (this works the same as the previous method of adding a
new text box but without changing your document. It is more cumbersome
though, I'll not deny that!).



Kind regards



Quentin.



On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal@...> wrote:

Hi all,

How do I access the contents of text boxes in Microsoft Word? In jaws, I
could
get a list of objects in a word document and access them that way. NVDA as
far
as I know does not support this yet. I need this at work because some of
my job
related documents have text boxes in them.
Note:
At work, I am using Word 2013 but this query is Word version agnostic.
Pranav







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