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NVDA says "Question mark" when speaking properties and values of certain controls #802

Closed nvaccessAuto closed 8 years ago

nvaccessAuto commented 14 years ago

Reported by vtsaran on 2010-08-02 01:02 I suspect this happens when certain properties are either unavailable or NVDA cannot extract the necessary information. But anyways... A good repro example below:

Using Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate edition (although happens on other flavors as well):

  1. Open Thunderbird 3.1 and press Control+N to start a new message.
  2. Notice that when tabbing to the "to" field, NVDA will say "Question mark" among other information for this field.

Another repro example would be on web pages in Firefox, eg http://finance.yahoo.com/news, where NVDA would say "question mark" on headings and lists when inspecting them with the object navigator.

nvaccessAuto commented 14 years ago

Comment 1 by jteh on 2010-08-02 01:37 Can't reproduce. I suspect this is dependent on the speech synthesiser and how it handles unknown characters. We pass most characters straight to the synth, as different languages use different characters and NVDA has know way of knowing which ones are valid. A synth really shouldn't translate these to "question mark". eSpeak certainly doesn't do this. Changes: Added labels: worksforme State: closed