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

Danielle Sykora dsykora29 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 15:58:19 UTC 2022


It has occured on all documents I have opened in the last day or so.

Danielle

On 3/16/22, Ignasi Cambra via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Try playing with the zoom setting in Word, sometime it helps. Are you able
> to reproduce this issue in all documents, or is it only happening with some
> of them?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 16 Mar 2022, at 16:42, Danielle Sykora via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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