[NABS-L] [nabs-l] issue with MS word and VoiceOver

Danielle Sykora dsykora29 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 15:41:12 UTC 2022


Yes, quick nav is turned off.

Danielle

On 3/16/22, Armando Vias via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Have you tried turning off quick nav?
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>> On Mar 16, 2022, at 11:01 AM, Danielle Sykora via NABS-L
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I encountered a problem using MS word with VoiceOver on Mac yesterday.
>> When I use the down arrow to navigate by line, VoiceOver speech does
>> not read line by line. Each time I press the down arrow, VoiceOver
>> begins reading from the start of the document. The Braille Display
>> does show that the cursor is moving line by line down the document.
>> However, on the Braille display, a new line appears as simply a space
>> between words. Put another way, VoiceOver speech only reads the entire
>> document each time I press the down arrow. THe Braille display makes
>> it appear as if I am reading one continuous paragraph with no line
>> breaks.
>>
>> I can however navigate line by line if I am within a table in word or
>> using any other application.
>>
>> Has anyone encountered this before? This started seemingly happening
>> randomly yesterday and I can't figure out if I accidentally changed
>> some setting. I thought it might be that the VoiceOver and keyboard
>> cursors are not synchronized, but this box is checked in settings.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Danielle
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