[NFBCS] A Google Docs Bug With Bulleted and Numbered Lists

[Curtis Chong]

Greetings all:

 

I am pleased to report that this bug has finally been squashed. Google Docs
now behaves as it should with regard to bulleted or numbered list items that
contain more than one line. You no longer have to turn off Braille Support
just to get around this problem.

 

Kind regards,

 

Curtis Chong

 

 

From: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2025 2:59 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Subject: A Google Docs Bug With Bulleted and Numbered Lists

 

As a follow on to my previous email (shown below) if you just copy the text
into a blank Google Docs document, you will not have to get permission from
me. I wasn't sure how to grant open access to anyone who wanted to view the
document I used as a test.

 

Apologies.

 

Cordially,

 

Curtis Chong

 

From: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2025 1:51 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Subject: A Google Docs Bug With Bulleted and Numbered Lists

 

Hello everyone:

 

For the past few weeks (I have no idea actually how many weeks), there has
existed a bug in Google Docs running under Windows relating to bulleted and
numbered lists where a particular bulleted or numbered item contains more
than one line of text. It would seem that such multi-line items are repeated
as you navigate up or down through the particular document using your arrow
keys. The workaround which seems to work is to temporarily turn off Google's
Braille Support using the CTRL+ALT+H Google command.

 

As you navigate through each multi-line list item, it seems that everything
is fine until you reach the end of the multi-line item. Arrowing down or up
to the next or previous line, respectively, causes the entire item to start
being read out loud again--at least using JAWS.

 

Here is a link to the test document I used to reproduce this problem:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8AuPIZI349JPMg2uXTAGXBNRBkNMluiw_6deqTE
YAA/edit?usp=sharing.

 

For anyone who wants to just copy and paste something into a blank Google
Docs file, here, shown below, is what I created, pasted directly from my
Google Docs file.

 

*	This is the first bullet item which is only one line in length.
*	This second bulleted item needs to stretch on and on to achieve a
multi-lined bulleted item in this list. With Google's Braille Support
enabled, this bulleted item should repeat due to the bug that has already
been reported to Google. One would have thought that nonvisual technology
testing within the Google organization would have detected this issue before
this was released into the so-called mainstream. Will this repeat? Only if
the bug has not been resolved.
However, maybe it won't.
*	This is the third bullet.

 

 

1.	This is a single-line numbered list item.
2.	This particular numbered list item Would be a multi-line item. Will
this repeat? I'm guessing it will. I need to ramble on quite a lot, though,
to ensure that we get soft line breaks in this numbered list item. For weeks
now, this problem has been plaguing the Google universe. I am working with
others to try to get this resolved.
3.	This last numbered item is only one line in length.

 

Here's hoping that Google is able to fix this rather frustrating problem
soon.

 

Kind regards,

 

Curtis Chong

 

 

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