Re: Status Bars and NVDA
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Christo de Klerk
In some cases, Like File Explorer,
status lines are there, but NVDA just does not read them. Rui
Fontes developed an handy addon that reads most status lines, but
I believe this functionality should form part of the NVDA core. A
long time ago I wrote about this, but NVDA developers did not seem
particularly interested in this issue. One of them even wrote that
one could get at the information in the status line by pressing
the review cursor key to jump to the bottom line and then pressing
the key to read that line. Sure, that can be done, but it would
just be more convenient to have a key which is supposed to read
status lines to work correctly. Rui's addon shows that it is not a
major undertaking to achieve that.
Kind regards
Christo
On 2021/11/22 12:42pm, Bhavya shah
wrote:
Dear all, I am using NVDA 2021.3 Beta 2 on a Windows 10 machine. To my knowledge, back in the day at least, I thought status bars were incredibly common and present in most applications. I had a bunch of programs open and decided to issue the read status bar command (NVDA+Shift+End on a laptop) to see what happened. The results are below: * Wordpad: "No status line found" * Windows Explorer: "No status line found" * Stata: "j" * Microsoft Edge: "No status line found" * Word for Microsoft 365: "Status Bar Page Number Page 2 of 32 Word Count 2728 words Spelling and Grammar Check Errors Text Predictions Text Predictions: On Accessibility Checker Accessibility: Investigate Focus Read Mode Print Layout Web Layout Zoom Out Zoom 160 Zoom In Zoom 160%" after a 2.5 second delay * Wordweb: "wordweb.info" In this experiment, most programs gave no valuable information. In the one program that did have a meaningful status bar, NVDA took a solid 2.5 seconds to read it. Are status bars truly becoming obsolete? Or does this hint at an issue in NVDA's read status bar command? I would appreciate any thoughts and inputs. Best Regards, Bhavya Shah Stanford University | Class of 2024 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavyashah125/
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