Skip to content

Spell selection when NVDA+shift+upArrow is pressed a second time #15449

@CyrilleB79

Description

@CyrilleB79

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

When pressing NVDA+shift+upArrow to have the selection reported, it may be hard to understand its content.

Describe the solution you'd like

Double pressing NVDA+shift+upArrow spells the selection. No need to append "selected" at the end IMO.

Since NVDA command often offer a triple press feature, one can ask if one is needed or useful for NVDA+shift+upArrow:

  • Copy to clipboard is clearly not useful since control+C can be used easily instead
  • Spelling with character description (alpha, bravo, Charlie) seems more suitable

One question remains: what if the selection is longer than 512 characters? Since there is a limitation to read a too big content In one time, I guess that the same limitation occurs for spelling. Thus I can see two options:

  • report again "513 characters selected"
  • report nothing at all

Describe alternatives you've considered

None

Additional context

Today, I have automatically double pressed NVDA+shift+upArrow hoping to have the selection spelt as it is the case for other NVDA reading command (read line, report title, etc.) I was surprised that this command does not behave as other commands regarding this point.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    p5https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/blob/master/projectDocs/issues/triage.md#prioritytriagedHas been triaged, issue is waiting for implementation.

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions