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make object navigation user friendly by optional restriction for current window, locking feature and quick navigation keys #7759

@Adriani90

Description

@Adriani90

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go in any application (browser ms office, Winamp etc.)
  2. In Laptop layout press NVDA + Shift and start navigating by objects

Expected behavior:
NVDA should allow me to restrict the object navigation for the active window or at least for the applications which are not minimized. Additionally, certain Actions should be more intuitive in this Navigation mode (i.e. adding quick Navigation keys for objects with custom context menus, easy mouse Routing and clicking key strokes, locking Feature like browse mode etc.).

Actual behavior:
When you are in child object zone and press up arrow, you come to the next parent object zone. But when you press multiple times up arrow it brings you out of the window to the desktop and then you end up at the very left border where you have to go all way back, find your relevant parent objects and go to the relevant child objects. This is quite annoying in very complex applications like in finance. But also in other applications such as MS Excel can cause frustration if you always have to go all way back just because you have pressed one time too often the up arrow while trying to read the formula of a protected cell.

System configuration:
NVDA version:
all

NVDA Installed or portable:
both

Windows version:
all

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

Other questions:

Does the issue still occur after restarting your PC?
yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA?
yes, all

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