[Athen] Nasty NVDA bug

[Lucy GRECO]

hello: i don't think this is an nvda bug er say i think its a word bug and
the numbers not showing up is a problem with wair the view port is for the
numbers
Lucia Greco
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IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:58 AM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>
wrote:


> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> 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!

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> --Debee

>>

>>

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