Steps to reproduce:
Open a document which contains footnotes or comments. Read with Say All (NVDA+down arrow / NVDA+a).
For instance, the text:
The quick brown1 fox jumps over the lazy2 dog.
with the following footnotes:
- Possibly black
- Allegedly.
Actual behavior:
That there are comments or footnotes is reported during reading, but not the content of those. To read the content itself requires stopping Say All, and using another keystroke or feature to read the comment or footnote, before restarting Say All.
Read with Say All currently:
The quick brown footnote 1, fox jumps over the lazy footnote 2, dog.
Expected behavior:
Suggestion to add a checkbox to "Read contents of footnotes and comments automatically". With this left unchecked (which I would suggest as the default), the current behaviour would remain.
With such a checkbox checked, NVDA would read the contents of footnotes and comments without stopping Say All. This feature would also work when navigating through a document line by line or one word or character at a time.
NVDA would read:
The quick brown Footnote 1, possibly black, fox jumps over the lazy Footnote 2, allegedly, dog.
It is the kind of thing that some users would prefer on and others prefer off, and may also be dependent on the program being used and / or the text.
A sighted user wanting to read the footnotes or comments can readily glance at the bottom or side of the page to read these and readily return to where they were reading.
System configuration:
Any (new proposed feature so remaining questions not relevant).
Steps to reproduce:
Open a document which contains footnotes or comments. Read with Say All (NVDA+down arrow / NVDA+a).
For instance, the text:
The quick brown1 fox jumps over the lazy2 dog.
with the following footnotes:
Actual behavior:
That there are comments or footnotes is reported during reading, but not the content of those. To read the content itself requires stopping Say All, and using another keystroke or feature to read the comment or footnote, before restarting Say All.
Read with Say All currently:
The quick brown footnote 1, fox jumps over the lazy footnote 2, dog.
Expected behavior:
Suggestion to add a checkbox to "Read contents of footnotes and comments automatically". With this left unchecked (which I would suggest as the default), the current behaviour would remain.
With such a checkbox checked, NVDA would read the contents of footnotes and comments without stopping Say All. This feature would also work when navigating through a document line by line or one word or character at a time.
NVDA would read:
The quick brown Footnote 1, possibly black, fox jumps over the lazy Footnote 2, allegedly, dog.
It is the kind of thing that some users would prefer on and others prefer off, and may also be dependent on the program being used and / or the text.
A sighted user wanting to read the footnotes or comments can readily glance at the bottom or side of the page to read these and readily return to where they were reading.
System configuration:
Any (new proposed feature so remaining questions not relevant).