Finally, after at least 3 decades, we finally have a way to navigate logically through complex Word documents **natively** in Office, with no screen reader DOM hackery.
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Finally, after at least 3 decades, we finally have a way to navigate logically through complex Word documents **natively** in Office, with no screen reader DOM hackery. The author might be a familiar name to some.
More logical navigation through Word documents for screen readers
With this new setting, you can confidently use the up and down arrow keys to more intuitively navigate columns of text, tables, text wrapped around an image,...
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Finally, after at least 3 decades, we finally have a way to navigate logically through complex Word documents **natively** in Office, with no screen reader DOM hackery. The author might be a familiar name to some.
More logical navigation through Word documents for screen readers
With this new setting, you can confidently use the up and down arrow keys to more intuitively navigate columns of text, tables, text wrapped around an image,...
TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
@sclower Oh that figures. Not surprised that's where he ended up
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@sclower Oh that figures. Not surprised that's where he ended up
@Bri Yup, he's been at Microsoft since the end of 2017.
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@Bri Yup, he's been at Microsoft since the end of 2017.
@sclower just a shame Window-Eyes couldn't be open sourced.
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@sclower just a shame Window-Eyes couldn't be open sourced.
@Bri @sclower Say with browsers, there are a lot of forks and divergent. Why do you think it's not happening in the #screenreader world? Like forks of NVDA? Harder to maintain? I am thinking about those vanished close source screen readers like thunder and Bom
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@Bri @sclower Say with browsers, there are a lot of forks and divergent. Why do you think it's not happening in the #screenreader world? Like forks of NVDA? Harder to maintain? I am thinking about those vanished close source screen readers like thunder and Bom
@kaveinthran @sclower I don't know, but I find myself wondering this more and more with NVDA's decline.
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@kaveinthran @sclower I don't know, but I find myself wondering this more and more with NVDA's decline.
@Bri @kaveinthran My take is that while forking is possible, the reality is that a screen reader is a huge investment of time and resources, for a super small percentage of the world's population. To make a sustainable long-term fork would require a major commitment that I don't think any lone individual wants to shoulder.
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@Bri @kaveinthran My take is that while forking is possible, the reality is that a screen reader is a huge investment of time and resources, for a super small percentage of the world's population. To make a sustainable long-term fork would require a major commitment that I don't think any lone individual wants to shoulder.
@sclower @Bri I don't think so forking should be very ambitious, I would like to call the great efforts by some people that created portable version of NVDA, with their own sets of customisation, a very beginning way of forking I should say. They distributed them Publicly for common use. @Tamasg portable #nvda is fun to use. Like a nvda distro.
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@sclower @Bri I don't think so forking should be very ambitious, I would like to call the great efforts by some people that created portable version of NVDA, with their own sets of customisation, a very beginning way of forking I should say. They distributed them Publicly for common use. @Tamasg portable #nvda is fun to use. Like a nvda distro.
Where do I find Portable NVDA? At least, the one you are talking about? I tried looking through their repositories and I see a torrent client, blind RSS, and other things. @kaveinthran @sclower @Bri @serrebi
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Where do I find Portable NVDA? At least, the one you are talking about? I tried looking through their repositories and I see a torrent client, blind RSS, and other things. @kaveinthran @sclower @Bri @serrebi
@WeirdWriter @sclower @Bri @serrebi I'm sorry, my bad of mentioning the wrong person, it's actually @Tamasg portable nvda, i've edited the previous post.
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@WeirdWriter @sclower @Bri @serrebi I'm sorry, my bad of mentioning the wrong person, it's actually @Tamasg portable nvda, i've edited the previous post.
@kaveinthran Where can I get his portable NVDA from? I didn't know he made one.
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@kaveinthran Where can I get his portable NVDA from? I didn't know he made one.
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@kaveinthran @serrebi hmm? no portable NVDA I know of.
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