[Athen] Nasty NVDA bug

[Robert Spangler]

What's the view port?  Sorry but I am having trouble understanding your
message.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 2:36 PM Lucy GRECO <lgreco at berkeley.edu> wrote:


> 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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>

> 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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