Comment 1 by briang1 on 2014-03-14 08:58
I just hear bullet, which does not say which it is of course. maybe a sighted person can configure the symbols list with the right description for the various bullets. Of course you are also noting that bullets are different in different fonts, which is presumably useful information as well.
What exactly would you like it to say, ie just solid bullet, but only give the font when you interrogate the highlighted item etc as it does now?

This ticket seems to deal with two issues:

1. NVDA reading seemingly useless information in the Bullets list (Alt, H, U).
2. NVDA reporting 'o' instead of 'bullet' when actually a bullet is entered.
   The first one is fairly apparent and reproducible. Pressing Alt, H, U, opens the Bullets dropdown, in which one of these unhelpfully named bullets as read by NVDA is 'Bulleted, 61656 (Wingdings)'.
   With regards to the second issue, I cannot replicate it. Auto conversion of * followed by spacebar as well as pressing Ctrl+Shift+L are the methods I use to input bullets, and neither has ever reported 'o' at my end. We will require significantly more specific and detailed steps in order to reliably reproduce it.

Using Word 2016, I experience opposite results.

1. In the bullets list, (Alt, H, U), I am able to arrow around to the different bullets and useful descriptions are provided. (Example: Bulleted, Solid Circle, Picture bulleted, Bulleted, Four Small Diamonds, etc.)
2. When inserting one of these bullets, (Bulleted, Hollow Arrow, for example), and create a list of 3 items, using the up arrow key does not indicate that there are bullets present.

@ehollig do you have "lists" activated in document formating settings?

@Adriani90 I do, however, when I perform the second step in #3979 (comment) and create a list of 3 items with a bullet, using up and down arrow does announce the bullet. I am going to close this issue as fixed now.