Hello Roger: I do not understand your posting. What is an SPL addon? Is it for JAWS, NVDA, or Office? Also, what is the LTS version? Using Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs) without expansion is difficult f

Hello: With the latest release candidate (RC1) of NVDA, when I tab through a table in MS Word, it speaks the text in the next table cell followed by the same text saying selected and then speaking the

Hello Greg: I also noticed this when I upgraded to version 2019-2. It only happens when you have “UI Automation to access Microsoft Word document controls when available” turn on in the advanced setti

Here is an article explaining several methods for inserting equations into Microsoft Word documents. There is one for keyboard only input. https://www.wikihow.com/Insert-Equations-in-Microsoft-Word Mi

Hello: I am creating a Power Point presentation and I need to place various objects (e.g. pictures and text boxes) on my slides. I know that I can manage the size and location of these objects to prev

Hello Daniel: I am assuming that you are talking about the Save As dialog, which is displayed when pressing Control+S on a new, unsaved document. The behavior of Control+S has changed starting in Offi

Hello: In recent history, Microsoft has introduced a new autosave feature for Office documents when resident on shared media, like OneDrive and SharePoint. A sighted person told me that there is a pla

Hello: At the company that I work for, Microsoft OneNote is heavily used for various purposes. When I look at the Microsoft recommendations on making accessible OneNote documents, it recommends many o

In Microsoft Word, if the cursor is on text that is associated with a comment, you can press NVDA+ALT+C and NVDA will speak the comment. However, if there are any replies to that comment, there does n

In newer version of Microsoft Word, a feature to Resolve Comments is present. When a comment is resolved, it is visually displayed collapsed and is dimmed (faded into the background). I can use the co

I created a Power Point presentation with some slide animations, where all content is not shown when a slide is first presented, but upon subsequent presses of the Page down button, more content is ad

Hello Cearbhall: Did you mean NVDA+F7 to open the elements dialog? This brings up a list of elements which are grouped in categories. For example, when browsing the web, the categories are: Links Head

Hello Felix: That did the trick. It took NVDA over 45 seconds to navigate to the next chapter when the 2 key was pressed. I wonder what algorithm is being used in NVDA for this purpose, since it takes

Hello NVDA users: I have a large Word document (over 180 pages) which contains numerous annotations ()comments, insertions and deletions) and is well structured with nested headings. There are 9 chapt

Hello NVDA Group: Earlie this week, I received an email, which I opened in the desktop version of Outlook 365, that contained a graphic of a screenshot full of text. With my laptop undocked, I perform

Hello Farhan: I am not sure why you think you should be able to get Microsoft Office training materials with NVDA for free. Significant work is required to create and maintain training materials, espe

Recently, Microsoft has changed the commenting feature in Excel. The old commenting feature is now called notes and the new feature is called comments. The new comments feature allows for threaded com

Hello Max: The table of contents is a hierarchal bulleted list. Unfortunately, the bullets are not part of the links, so when you up and down arrow (or use the I key for list navigation), you are most

Hello Quentin: Thanks for taking my observation a bit further by trying additional voices. On a somewhat related topic, if I remember correctly from my sighted days, Excel showed the selected cell ref

Hello Travis: I find your email to be quite insensitive. As you are probably aware, this list is comprised of people from all over the globe, many of whom are not native English speakers. I am always