[Athen] Nasty NVDA bug

[Robert Spangler]

So to clarify, are you saying that if I use the automatic list feature,
NVDA won't read the numbers that are automatically inserted upon pressing
enter?  That's strange, because mine does.  I am on the latest version.  I
just did a simple test, though; I didn't use paragraphs and numbers with
parentheses.  I would recommend filing this bug with NVAccess so they can
fix it.  Thanks for letting us know!

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 1:42 PM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
wrote:


> Don’t know if this has always been the case or is just a problem with the

> current version, but I wanted to share it with anyone helping students.

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> I was typing something in Word this morning and using NVDA. My document

> had numbers in the margins in parenthesis, but not every paragraph had

> numbers.

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> Word started automatically inserting numbers (I thought I had that pesky

> “feature” turned off), but NVDA didn’t speak nor show those numbers on my

> Braille display.

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> When I printed it a co-worker noticed all the extra numbers including a

> final page with numbers running down the left margin with no text.

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> When I went back to review the document with JAWS, all the numbers

> “appeared” but looking at it again with NVDA, only the numbers I’d

> deliberately typed were displayed – none of the auto-numbering that Word so

> “helpfully!” inserted.

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> This is a warning to anyone who takes an exam in word with NVDA, since if

> you are adding fill in the blanks, and the instructor has numbered the

> questions, simply pressing enter could add more numbers which would be

> invisible to NVDA! Auto-numbering which is unfortunately on by default can

> throw off the numbering of any exam as well, so I hope people turn it off

> when the student taking the test is a newbie!

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> --Debee

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