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NVDA Should Announce Tracked Changes in Microsoft Office Word #942
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Attachment trackchanges.patch added by rameshwar.nagar on 2013-03-21 12:25 |
Comment 1 by rameshwar.nagar on 2013-03-21 12:29 Note: when you close MS word that time trackchanges state should be off. Regards & Thanks, Rameshwar Nagar |
Comment 2 by jteh on 2013-03-21 23:05
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A proper fix for this could be a small productivity boost. Tracking changes is quite common in office environments. On the other hand, there are many toggles on the ribbon, so where do we draw the line? Also, it would be nice to have a way to query the status of this setting in an existing document. @LeonarddeR thoughts? |
As I understand it, there needs to be a way to identifiy when track changes are turned on or off, correct? Changes are already reported. |
Correct, with the side note that changes aren't yet reported in braille (#6785). |
In office 365, navigating to the "track changes" ribbon item advises whether it is "pressed" or not. Admittedly not efficient, but it works. If "Track changes" has been enabled to be shown in the status bar, pressing NVDA+end to read the status bar will advise the state of track changes along with anything else on the status bar. These can both be seen visually as well. Overall, I agree with the original idea of reporting the status when CONTROL+SHIFT+E (or the local equivalent) is pressed. This does not introduce a new keystroke and at worst, for the user, it is two keypresses - if say it was already on and they turned it off in order to check.. Querying the status bar gives a lot of additional information that may not be needed, and opening the ribbon is complex. Currently the other way to check is to type a character, then left arrow to check whether NVDA reports "inserted". This isn't foolproof, as if track changes was turned on this session, and the focus is in text which had been inserted, NVDA won't report "inserted" as that will not have changed from the surrounding text (and assuming "report editor revisions" is enabled in NVDA's document formatting). |
Hello |
Reported by Pat on 2010-09-25 11:51
NVDA should provide this information whenever tracked changes are turned on or turned off in a Word document by pressing CTRL + Shift + E.
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