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NVDA does not read members of distribution lists in at least Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013 #2767
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Comment 1 by Marcia.Yale (in reply to comment description) on 2012-12-04 05:34
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Comment 3 by nvdakor (in reply to comment 1) on 2014-07-24 17:21
Hi,
The ideal solution is to create an overlay class for contact group entries and use COM to get individual entries as we arrow through them. But we want to make sure that the class name and control ID is unique, otherwise we may run into exceptions (as in what happens in ticket #4305 with journal entries mistaken for calendar views). |
Comment 4 by nvdakor on 2014-07-25 11:19 |
I am still being bothered by this problem in that I cannot read contents of a distribution lists. |
Sounds like the reported issue has been confirmed by an NVDA developer, experienced by multiple NVDA users, persists with more than one version of Microsoft Outlook, and has professional usage cases and thus impacts employment. |
I'd like to suggest a p3 for this one. |
Just curious as to whether there has been any movement on this, as it appears to be an issue with Office/Outlook rather than the screen reader. It's still happening as of today, March 27, 2019, under Outlook 2016, when dealing with Contact Groups. If Microsoft isn't going to fix the issue is there any possibility of an in-NVDA code tweak to make the screen reader follow movement up/down through the member list? |
Just confirming I can also repro this with Office 365. I have also previously reported this to Microsoft. Several very imperfect workarounds in the interim:
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Minor update - Narrator has exactly the same issue in this situation. Interestingly if you arrow through the list and back, when you get back to the original item with focus, Narrator simply reports "Selected". |
At this point, were someone tasked with maintaining a mailing list with a
very large number of members, I would export the original from Outlook to
an Excel CSV, and maintain it there, deleting the list in Outlook and
importing it from the Excel CSV file when necessary.
This is not a huge deal, though it is a grand PITA, when the number of list
members is relatively small, but it quickly becomes utterly unworkable for
large mailing lists.
…On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:09 PM Quentin Christensen < ***@***.***> wrote:
Minor update - Narrator has exactly the same issue in this situation.
Interestingly if you arrow through the list and back, when you get back to
the original item with focus, Narrator simply reports "Selected".
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Reported by RobertSpangler on 2012-10-31 18:59
Hello,
As part of my job, I must create and manage distribution lists in Outlook 2007 for mass emailing. I am able to create them just fine but if I go into my contacts and press enter on the distribution list, then hit tab once it appears to get to the list of contacts in that list, I am unable to up/down arrow to go through the list. I am thinking this may be a Microsoft bug, as the list contains no child objects for each list item but I figured I would file it here just in case it could be fixed on the NVDA side. Thank you.
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