Dear all,
My general concern of unresponsiveness in Word has been addressed for
the most part in recent development builds of NVDA. In particular, I
have had an imperfect but relatively smooth experience in using the
latest Alpha snapshot of NVDA in Word for Microsoft 365. I am
genuinely excited for the next couple stable releases of NVDA that
will package these improvements.
Thanks.
On 10/22/21, Bhavya shah via groups.io
<bhavya.shah125@...> wrote:
Dear Quentin,
Thanks for your helpful response. I will review the articles you
linked and try to follow their troubleshooting suggestions. In the
meantime, I do want to make sure, as you advised, that all my Word UIA
bugs are reported on GitHub. Currently, I am using the search phrase
"is:issue is:open label:component/UIA-ms-office" which is showing up
only 3 open tickets. Is there another broader or narrower component
for Word UIA? In case there are tickets you are aware of that should
be but are not tagged appropriately, could you add the relevant
components to them?
Thanks.
On 9/28/21, Jujube <ellaxyu@...> wrote:
Thanks Quentin for the reminder. I'll admit I'm very new to github, so I
definitely have not checked closely. I'll check again.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:58 AM Quentin Christensen
<quentin@...>
wrote:
Have you checked whether these are all reported on
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues
Using UIA will become the default in time, so it's important that those
testing things like this, ensure they are reported.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 4:20 PM Jujube <ellaxyu@...> wrote:
I have a feeling that UIA support is still kind of janky at best and is
still under development, and yes, typing is much snappier in word with
UIA
turned on, and this computer has rather limited system resources btw. I
know this isn't quite on topic, but I'll also mention a few things I
noticed in Excel with UIA support turned on, and btw I have both office
16/365 (or something like that) which I got from my college for viewing
narrated powerpoints and office 2007 (I know, I know, it's so old but
that's what my family has). I found the following, particularly with
the
newer office version (and sorry I know this is Excel):
- Pressing NVDA+Space does not switch between browse an focus modes.
- Pressing NVDA control C and NVDA control R does not allow you to set
automatic row and column header reading.
- Commands to select an entire row (shift + down arrow) and commands to
select an entire column (control shift down arrow) don't work as
intended.
Instead, I get something like (selected 1 through 1) which isn't right.
And yes, none of these are a problem with UIA turned off.
And a few issues with excel and braille displays (and yes speech is
perfectly fine here):
- When I enter browse mode and navigate between cells, nothing on the
braille display changes but I hear all the contents read out to me in
speech. This is not at all an issue in focus mode (and yes I did report
this on NVDA issue tracker under the name mrsviolafangirl).
- When using the newer version of Excel (and yes this happens no matter
if UIA is enabled or not), when I type into a cell with a braille
display
connected, the contents of what I'm entering is not showing up on the
braille display (but it is spoken just fine in speech) and I have to
press
escape or enter to read what I typed on the braille display. This is a
non
issue in my old MS Excel 2007.
And yes, I'm well aware that the number of people who use braille
displays is quite limited so I totally understand if braille display
issues
are hard to reproduce.
Okay sorry for commenting on excel issues on this thread, but if
there's
some little quirks using NVDA with MS office that can use some fixes,
it's
worth mentioning lol.
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Best Regards,
Bhavya Shah
Stanford University | Class of 2024
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavyashah125/
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Best Regards,
Bhavya Shah
Stanford University | Class of 2024
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavyashah125/
