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Change behaviour of focusing and reading bullets in Word with UI auomation enabled #11908

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Description

@ainekc

Steps to reproduce:

Turn on enabling UI automation in word from NVDA settings > advanced
Make a new Word file and make a short list of bullet points, min. 2
Try scrolling by paragraph ctrl+up or ctrl+down

Actual behavior:

NVDA focuses first on the bullet symbol and then on the listem item itself, but it effectively reads out the bullet twice, once per press of ctrl+up or ctrl+down.

Expected behavior:

NVDA focuses on the entire bullet point+item and reads it only once? i.e. new press of ctrl+up or ctrl+down really means next list item every time

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Installed

NVDA version:

[Window Title]
About NVDA

[Content]
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA)
alpha-21456,f99644e9

Windows version:

10.0.18363 Build 18363

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

Microsoft Word for Office 365 16.0.12527.21296 and earlier

Other information about your system:

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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.

This has been the case since whenever the UI automation setting was introduced. It doesn't happen with that setting off.

If addons are disabled, is your problem still occuring?

Yes

Did you try to run the COM registry fixing tool in NVDA menu / tools?

Yes

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