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footnotes & endnotes reported in MS Word with "Notes and comments" (Document formatting settings) unchecked #12749

Open Qchristensen opened 3 years ago

Qchristensen commented 3 years ago

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Press NVDA+control+d to open NVDA's document formatting settings.
  2. Press alt+t to jump to "Notes and comments".
  3. Press spacebar to toggle this setting, ensure it is "unchecked".
  4. Press ENTER to close settings.
  5. Open a document in Word, or open a blank document, type something and add a footnote with control+alt+f
  6. Read the line with the footnote.

Actual behavior:

NVDA reports "Footnote 1" when it gets to the text with the footnote.

Expected behavior:

In NVDA 2020.3, PR https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/11311 fixed reporting of notes and comments in Excel and changed this option from "Comments" to "Notes and comments" in line with those features in Excel. A user looking at the options while in Word, may expect that "notes" would also refer to footnotes and endnotes.

With "Notes and comments" unchecked therefore, footnotes (and endnotes) should not be reported (this setting works as expected for comments).

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

NVDA version:

NVDA 2021.2 beta 1

Windows version:

Windows 10 (64-bit) Version: 2009, Build: 19043

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

Office 365 (64-bit) Version: 16.0.14228.20244

Other information about your system:

This behaves the same regardless of whether UIA in Word is enabled or not in NVDA's advanced settings.

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

Yes, back past 2020.3 - comments are reported or not as per the setting in all versions, however this setting was never designed to toggle reporting of footnotes and endnotes.

If add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

No add-ons installed.

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

No

Qchristensen commented 3 years ago

The bahaviour in this case is the same whether "Use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word document controls" in NVDA's advanced settings is checked or unchecked. When using UIA, NVDA additionally reports "Link" when the footnote link is encountered in the text.

seanbudd commented 2 years ago

This intended behaviour. We may want to rename this option to just "Comments" to be more indicative, or update the user guide to specify what this covers.