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Issue with numbered lists in WordPad #6649

Open bflora2 opened 7 years ago

bflora2 commented 7 years ago

I am using NVDA 2016.4 and I notice that NVDA does not identify numbering in numbered lists, or bullets in bulleted paragraphs, when arrowing through text in the WordPad word processor. I have enabled the "lists" setting in document formatting preferences. Is this an issue with NVDA, or is it due to some limitation within WordPad?

Also, I noticed the new feature to identify indentation levels works when indentation is performed with spaces or tabs, but native paragraph indentation as done in a word processor such as WordPad is not recognized by the feature. Is this design intent?

feerrenrut commented 7 years ago

Historically these formatting options (bullets, numbered lists) have not been available in NVDA due to technical limitations. However now this is feasible, but the work to achieve this needs to be prioritised against other open issues.

In terms of identifying the indentation levels this was an intentional design decision. We have tried to differentiate between line indentation (tab or space characters prefixing a single line) and paragraph indentation (formatting information applied by the application to offset a whole paragraph). This feature was added primarily for programmers.

feerrenrut commented 7 years ago

I'll give this a priority 3 to implement identifying bullets and numbered list items.

bflora2 commented 7 years ago

Thank you, Reef! I noticed that NVDA also seems to handle numbering in outlines by stating something like "Item 3 at level 2", or something like that. Given that outlines can be created in WordPad via nested lists (and more easily in the Jarte word processor which is based on the WordPad word processing engine), I'm hoping that NVDA capability can be extended to WordPad as well. Be even just support bullets and simple lists would be great. Thanks again!

josephsl commented 1 week ago

Hi,

2024 update: WordPad is removed in Windows 11 2024 Update.

Thanks.