NVDA does not handle all characters which can be in alt text of embedded objects in word documents

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Reported by mwhapples on 2013-10-12 23:37
If you create a word document with an embedded object and set the alt text of the embedded object to contain a character which needs escaping when in an attribute in XML (eg. quote mark " ), NVDA will not see that embedded object as it will get an XML parse error.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new word document.
2. Insert an embedded object (in my case I used MathType to put in an equation).
3. Set the alt text of the embedded object to contain double quotes (eg. a " b).
4. move the word cursor over the embedded object and observe what NVDA presents in speech and Braille.

Expected: NVDA will announce the embedded object and speak and Braille the alt text.
Actual: NVDA does not announce anything, including not announcing the presence of the embedded object.

Using NVDA 2013.2 and tested with Word 2007 and 2010.

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Attachment nvda.log added by mwhapples on 2013-10-12 23:40
Description:
Log from NVDA which shows NVDA has a XML parse error.

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Comment 1 by mwhapples on 2013-10-12 23:42
I forgot to mention that I have tried this with other screen readers and they work as expected. Also examining the word document's XML inside the docx shows that word has escaped this character in the underlying file, so the word document is valid XML.

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Comment 2 by jteh on 2013-10-13 05:43
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Milestone changed from None to next

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Comment 3 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-10-14 23:19
In [1cab6f8]:

nvdaHelper winword support: make sure to encode alt text of graphics/objects appropriate for xml attribute values. Fixes #3579

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State: closed

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Comment 4 by mdcurran on 2013-10-14 23:21
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Milestone changed from next to 2013.3