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Highlight Colors with NVDA in Word and Outlook

Ed Marquette
 

This question was inspired both by a problem I’ve been having and by the post about colors in Word.
Sighted people like to use “highlight” in email messages and in draft word documents.
This highlighting, I think, is just shifting the background color to a constant.  The highlight color may be changed, but it is often yellow.  One may search for this highlighting in Word (not sure about Outlook).  
I cannot get NVDA to identify this highlighted text.  NVDA Key + f does not disclose that the text is highlighted or that the colors have changed.  I’ve pressed NVDA Key + F on highlighted text and, within the same line, text that is not highlighted, and the same colors are reported.
I’ve searched the entire keyboard, using keyboard help the NVDA Key and some other key combination.  So far, I have come up empty.
Surely I am missing something.  This problem  has to have been experienced by others.

Thank you for any assistance you may furnish.
 


On May 6, 2019, at 5:19 PM, Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:

By the way, this topic really has nothing to do with NVDA, and everything to do with MS-Word.  I got carried away myself and then realized, afterward, that everything I'd done to get the steps is completely independent of NVDA - it's all applicable only to MS-Word whether one is using a screen reader or not.

If there are more questions on this we need to move it to the Chat Subgroup, as it really doesn't belong here:
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Brian Vogel
 

Ed, the technique discussed in the recent topic 
Hemingway Editor - Command for Colors with NVDA
should work equally well for highlight colors, or at least I think it should.  Worth a shot at the very least.
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Quentin Christensen
 

Actually the "highlight" function in Word seems to work differently to setting the text or background colour.  Highlight doesn't change the values of those colours, but rather, it is a "toggle".  When highlight is on, the background changes to yellow or whatever you set the highlight colour too.  If you select the text and turn highlight off again, the text and background colours return to what they were originally.

It looks like either this highlight attribute isn't being reported to NVDA, or we're not looking for it.

There is an issue on our tracker which I've just added a similar comment to: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/7396

Regards

Quentin.

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 6:47 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:
Ed, the technique discussed in the recent topic 
Hemingway Editor - Command for Colors with NVDA
should work equally well for highlight colors, or at least I think it should.  Worth a shot at the very least.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763  

Puritanism:  The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

        ~ H.L. Mencken

 

 



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