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Support Kaomoji and symbols in Windows 10 / 11 Emoji panel #9959

Open Qchristensen opened 5 years ago

Qchristensen commented 5 years ago

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

Reading Kaomoji and Symbols in the Windows 10 Emoji Panel.

Note that Kaomoji are pictures made with symbols. For instance, colon, hyphen, right parenthesis is commonly called an "emoticon" (the predecessor to emoji), but is also known as a Kaomoji. The symbols category lists symbols, similar to the symbols dialog in Word, etc.

Press WINDOWS+. to open the Windows 10 Emoji panel. Press SHIFT+TAB to move to the "Emoji selected" then press RIGHT ARROW to move to either Kaomoji or symbols. Press TAB to move to the list of Kaomoji or symbols Press ARROWS to move through the items.

Currently, NVDA reports some of the characters in some Kaomoji and some symbols and just reports the number in the grid for the remainder.

Describe the solution you'd like

NVDA should report the name of the Kaomoji or symbol.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Using Windows 10 version 1903 build 18362.239 and NVDA 2019.2beta3

LeonarddeR commented 5 years ago

These aren't part of the unicode common locale data repository, so that's why they are not spoken. Note that Narrator doesn't speak them either.

Adriani90 commented 4 months ago

@josephsl, @Qchristensen how is this now with NVDA 2024.2?

josephsl commented 4 months ago

Hi,

I think more symbols and kaomoji characters are announced (need to double-check this). At the moment I have no plans to work on Windows 10 emoji panel and friends as Windows 10 end of life is approaching soon (next year) unless we discover regressions.

Thanks.

Qchristensen commented 1 week ago

Updated title to confirm this is also present in Windows 11. Steps are different to originally reported:

1) Press WiNDOWSS+. (full stop) to open the emoji panel. 2) Press SHIFT+TAB twice to get to "Most recently used 1 of 6". 3) Press RIGHT ARROW three times to get to Kaomoji 4) Press enter to load and move to first one.

NVDA reads the Kaomoji as a string of symbols - exactly what is read depends on your symbol level, but the first one is: (❁´◡`❁) Which at symbol level all, NVDA reads as: "left paren, acute, lower half circle, grave, right paren" (the design is acute and grave for eyes lower half circle for mouth, flowers for rosy cheeks and parenthesis for the edges of the face.... Unless the flowers are the eyes? I'm not sure. Either way, there is no description given in the kaomoji panel either - the "hint" which pops up is simply the kaomoji itself. If the panel doesn't offer any kind of explanation, there probably isn't anything we can do unless there is a standard list of these somewhere. I'll reach out to Microsoft and see if I can find out.