Open nvaccessAuto opened 14 years ago
Comment 1 by jteh on 2010-09-12 23:10 Changes: Milestone changed from None to None
I believe it is now possible to do this with the Report Table row / column headers option In NVDA's Document Formatting dialog.
No, that's just row and col headers.
Comments moved from #5404 quotes referring to https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/5404#issuecomment-221161006
Outstanding questions pertinent to reading rows / columns in excel:
why it's more efficient than just cursoring through the sheet
The user has to:
whether empty cells should be skipped
This is still a good question. I would imagine they should be skipped for the following reason.
The option "cell coordinates" in the document formatting dialog plays into this. Consider the following use cases:
whether coordinates should be read
This should be based on the, "cell coordinates" option in document formatting.
whether regions should be respected
Not sure about this one, opinions / explanations welcome.
This could be easily implemented. By selecting the row or the column and pressing the keystroke for reading selected text (NVDA+Shift+uparrow in desktop or NVDA+shift+s in laptop layout). Currently the keystroke for laptop layout is not working anymore. NVDA+shift+uparrow in desktop layout is working. However, it reads the selected range (a20 20 till a15 70) but not every text in the cell. In laptop layout, the say all keystroke (NVDA+shift+a) does actually the wrong thing in MS Excel. it reads the range of selection (like NVDA+shift+uparrow in desktop layout). There is a big inconsistency regarding this keystrokes. I will open a new issue for this.
Reported by ManuelRamos on 2010-09-11 14:00 Congratulations for NVDA 2010.2 that is coming soon!
I'm not an Excel extensive user.
However, I've been requested to report that it would be fantastic that NVDA could read with a single command, alll horizontal cels in Excel.
So, speaking with portuguese and brazilian users and members of NVDA local comunity, I've been told that NVDA should, if possible, incorporate 3 new commands in Excel:
- Read all document (perheaps it is already covered by NVDA+down command).