PowerPoint: NVDA no longer announces bullets when creating and reading presentation slides

[josephsl]

Steps to reproduce:

Prerequisite: PowerPoint (either 365 or Office 2021) must be installed.

1. Create a presentation with at least one content slide (no center title slide).
2. After filling in the slide title, move to object portion.
3. Fill out the "object" i.e. content portion of the slide. By default, a bullet point should be present.
4. After writing one line, press Enter to add another bulleted list item in the slide content.
5. Return to the slide view and press Tab to review title and content (one should press Tab twice to move to slide object/content).

Actual behavior:

NVDA does not announce bullet points when composing and reading slides.

Expected behavior:

NVDA reads bullet points when composing and reading slides.

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

None

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Installed

NVDA version:

alpha-34344,64ba6c69

Windows version:

Windows 11 24H2 dev (build 26120.2130)

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

PowerPoint 365 version 16.0.18025.20140 (64-bit)

Other information about your system:

Used as a development workstation and PowerPoint is used as part of a job

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.

Not reproducible in 2024.4 RC and earlier (also not reproducible in earlier alpha builds but can't pinpoint to the exact build/commit at the moment)

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

Yes

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

Not applicable

Thanks.

[RajathKP]

I would like to work on this. Please assign

[seanbudd]

Thanks @RajathKP - let me know if you need any questions when getting started

[RajathKP]

Sure