Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] how to spell check with libreoffice writer and NVDA?

Hi,

On 2025-04-02 23:58, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> How do you spell check in libreoffice with NVDA? NVDA does not tell me the
> misspelled word after I hit f7 for spell check

For now:

When the edit field that contains the sentence/line including the 
misspelled word receives focus, the cursor is initially positioned at 
the misspelled word.

The misspelled word is indicated by being formatted in bold red font, so 
you can also use that to identify the word by using NVDA+F to announce 
the formatting of the word the cursor is currently at. For the 
misspelled word, NVDA will say something including "bright red bold".

There's an existing bug report to improve the situation ( 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135236 ), but that 
still needs more work.

> and when I tab through
> buttons and if I hit ignore, it seems like it isn't moving onto the next
> word. Sometimes it freezes up and puts me back at the top of my document.

That sounds like a bug and I can't reproduce that. Can you give exact 
steps to reproduce?


> Or is there a way just to move between misspelled word in the document
> itself without using the spelling checker dialog? I know that google docs
> lets me use control apostrophe and control semicolon to move between
> misspelled words right in the document. Can this be done in libreoffice?

I'm not aware of such a feature, but maybe others know more.


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