NV AccessMar 19

News from #Microsoft:

More logical navigation through Word documents for screen readers

There is a new setting (now in Office 365) which "allows you to use the up and down arrow keys to move through all the content in your document based on the logical reading order." - this will be a big improvement for situations including:
- Multi-column pages
- Text wrapped around images
- multi-page view

Read more at: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/more-logical-navigation-through-word-documents-for-screen-readers/4471937

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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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Show threadRoberto Pérez
@NVAccess Is this different from reading a document usin browse mode with NVDA?
Mar 19 at 12:33amWeb
Show threadNV AccessMar 19
@Rperez030 While using browse mode in Word will overcome most of the same things like pressing down arrow in a multi-column document in Word, this setting is a Word setting, so it will work in focus mode as well as with no screen reader running. Microsoft left the option off by default to preserve the existing functionality - but I can't think of any good reason for NVDA users NOT to enable it (if anyone can think of a reason not to use it, please let me know).