Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-07-25 08:05
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Changed title from "Nvda being able to suppress showing of blank lines." to "Option to suppress speaking of "blank" for blank lines"

@feerrenrut Do you consider this feature request accepted, or do we require further discussion on its UX, usage case, value, etc.?

If this is specifically for browse mode, this is being addressed in #6704.

It's a shame that there isn't a specific example of where the reporter expected this to apply. I would assume they were asking for this behaviour across the board.

For me I find a place where this would be very interesting.
Using outlook 2016 I get several emails that have a huge amount of empty lines, this I believe due to how the navigation mode of the nvda deals with these emails.
Being able to suppress empty lines in this case would speed up reading these emails much better.
These emails are very common coming from social networks like faceboo ,, linkdyn.

@feerrenrut I suppose the original reporter was requesting this universally.
@fernando-jose-silva I believe there is some confusion with regards to what this ticket encompasses. NVDA says 'blank' for every blank line it encounters. The request being made here is to suppress the speaking of 'blank' so that NVDA would stay silent when one is arrowing down a chunk of empty lines. On the other hand, what you seem to be suggesting is for NVDA to suppress the blank lines themselves, such that NVDA would directly jump over a block of such blank lines and move ahead of the emptiness.

@fernando-jose-silva No, that feature request has already been made in #4904.

I had a request from a user for this feature. It is most noticeable in some emails in Outlook. Is this still being considered as something to be added to NVDA?

This seems to be the same request as #4904. I'm going to close this issue as a duplicate, even though it is older, as #4904 links to many of the other duplicate issues where this one doesn't. Also the original requested solution (a document settings option to skip blank lines) is clearer in #4904.