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Use UI Automation to access Equation editor in Word by default #17475

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Qchristensen opened this issue Dec 3, 2024 · 1 comment
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Use UI Automation to access Equation editor in Word by default #17475

Qchristensen opened this issue Dec 3, 2024 · 1 comment
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component/UIA-ms-office Specific to UIA used in MS office applications. p2 https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/issues/triage.md#priority triaged Has been triaged, issue is waiting for implementation.

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

The equation editor in Word currently only reads correctly when NVDA's advanced option "Use UI Automation to access Microsoft Word controls" is set to "Always". Setting this option to "Always" currently changes some other behaviours in Word which may not be ideal for everyone.

Describe the solution you'd like

Use UIA to access the Equation Editor by default so that users do not need to change this control to have access to the equation editor.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None of the math add-ons provide full functionality in the equation editor without this option being set.

Currently users need to go into NVDA's advanced options to set this manually. Which is daunting for some users, and also has other impacts users may not realise.

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@seanbudd seanbudd added p2 https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/issues/triage.md#priority component/UIA-ms-office Specific to UIA used in MS office applications. triaged Has been triaged, issue is waiting for implementation. labels Dec 9, 2024
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seanbudd commented Dec 9, 2024

Closing as can't reproduce with the default setting.
For the case "only necessary", this cannot be fixed.

@seanbudd seanbudd closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Dec 9, 2024
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