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How does the spell checker work with Narrator?

Dave


On 10/23/2023 2:51 AM, Michael Weghorn wrote:
Hi,

On 2023-10-12 14:02, Michael Weghorn wrote:
I think the best way forward is to switch to adhere to the IAccessible2 specification and report the "invalid:spelling" attribute for spelling errors. That also needs a modification in NVDA to longer expect the custom attributes.

Once that's implemented, we'll see whether that already makes the announcement of misspelled words work as expected or more is needed.

I'm currently working on that, see the following bug report I created for more details:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157696

That's done now and announcement of spelling errors when NVDA announces a line in Writer works with the LibreOffice changes from the above-mentioned Bugzilla ticket and the corresponding NVDA change ( https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/15649 ) in place, i.e. it will work with the upcoming versions LibreOffice 24.2 and NVDA 2024.1.

The fact that LibreOffice was switched from custom attributes to attributes according to the IAccessible2 specification also implies that assistive technology that was previously only supporting the custom attributes has to be adapted to accept the IAccessible2 text attributes now.

For NVDA, this has been implemented in the pull request mentioned above. If you rely on the feature of announcing formatting information, I'd recommend to update NDVA to 2024.1 next year before updating to LibreOffice 2024.2. (Announcement for text formatting will not work with NVDA 2023.x and LibreOffice 2024.2 and above).

In a quick test with JAWS, it didn't announce any text attributes when pressing Keypad_Insert+F, neither with nor without the recent LibreOffice changes in place, so it seems like that's not implemented there at all. (I can't take any closer look because that's a closed source product.)

If anybody wants to test the current development versions, I'm happy about feedback.

If anybody is aware of other assistive technology that should be taken into account, I'm thankful if you either notify the developers yourself or let me know so I can take care of this.

Regards,
Michael


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