Comment 1 by jteh on 2013-01-30 21:06
I'm concerned that this could cause ambiguity, as a style could conceivably be named with a phrase NVDA uses when describing formatting; e.g. "bold", "superscript", etc. Normally, this won't matter, but it could be a big problem when attempting to configure styles correctly. I don't think a toggle makes sense here; we either do this or we don't.

Comment 2 by jhomme (in reply to comment 1) on 2013-01-31 12:09
Hi,
I think NVDA would say the word normal after it says the word bold, which would indicate, in most cases, that the bold style has ended and the normal style has resumed. Another thing to consider might be that if someone has style name speaking turned off, NVDA wouldn't say any style names in Word. And I'm intentionally keeping the discussion narrowed to Word, because I don't know how NVDA handles style names in other programs. I haven't tried it in Excel, for example. Replying to jteh:

I'm concerned that this could cause ambiguity, as a style could conceivably be named with a phrase NVDA uses when describing formatting; e.g. "bold", "superscript", etc. Normally, this won't matter, but it could be a big problem when attempting to configure styles correctly. I don't think a toggle makes sense here; we either do this or we don't.

@jcsteh Keeping in mind the original author of this ticket is now out-of-reach, does his #2952 (comment) satisfy your initial concerns? At the least, I agree that introducing a toggle for the discussed behaviour seems unneeded.

I still think there is a risk of ambiguity here, especially if a lot of different formatting information is being reported. Closing as won't fix.