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Support quick nav for spelling errors in more situations #13293

Open Gene703122 opened 2 years ago

Gene703122 commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, NVDA can move to the next misspelled word when using browse mode in Word and Outlook. But in all sorts of instances, users are not in browse mode and working in edit fields where misspellings are flagged. Thunderbird is one example.

Describe the solution you'd like

There should be a command to move the cursor to the next flagged misspelled word in a document.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I am not aware of any suitable alternatives.

Additional context

Such a feature would save considerable time. I read material before sending it or when proofing it. Using f7 for the spell checker takes more time because I'm doing two separate things instead of reading what I've written and efficiently spell checking it. Without such a command, as I move through a document, the cursor is often far away from what is flagged. I want to be able to move immediately to the flagged word, then use the context menu to correct it or manually correct it.

rperez030 commented 2 years ago

I think we would need both, an option to go to next misspelled word and the option to go to previous misspelled word. Actually, I see great benefit on enabling all the quick navigation that exist in browse mode to work even if NVDA is in focus mode. Being able to move between links and headings, or jumping directly to text with a diffferent style could boost productivity while editing in word, for example.

marrie commented 2 years ago

If we only do next that's fine. however if this cannot happen, then highlighting the word with this key stroke, then hitting the contextual menu key would bring up the spelling choices for which this is supported. I would be fine with that implementation instead

Adriani90 commented 11 months ago

Supporting quick navigation commands in focus mode in general is not possible since NVDA needs to build its own virtual document to support this. When we switch to focus mode, the keyboard belongs to the application itself. In thunderbird, browse mode is supported, but navigations to spelling errors in browse mode of Thunderbird is not supported yet.