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

Ignasi Cambra ignasicambra at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 16:24:30 UTC 2022


Does it happen even if the document has only one page?

Sent from my iPhone

> On 16 Mar 2022, at 17:01, Danielle Sykora via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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