Word announces section breaks as page breaks

[Qchristensen]

When you insert a section break (new page), NVDA identifies it as simply a "page break". When you insert a section break (continuous), no identification is given by NVDA. Column breaks are also not identified.

With formatting symbols displayed, column, page and section breaks are all displayed as a dotted line (different types of dots between the three types) across the page with the type of break in (what appears visually as) text identifying "Page break (continuous)", "Column break" etc.

[derekriemer]

I think a similar issue can be seen with column breaks, and using the
arrow keys, no method is given to move to the next column. I might e
wrong, I only saw this once on a test.

On 5/13/2016 5:04 AM, Quentin Christensen wrote:

When you insert a section break (new page), NVDA identifies it as
simply a "page break". When you insert a section break (continuous),
no identification is given by NVDA. Column breaks are also not identified.

With formatting symbols displayed, column, page and section breaks are
all displayed as a dotted line (different types of dots between the
three types) across the page with the type of break in (what appears
visually as) text identifying "Page break (continuous)", "Column
break" etc.

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[Qchristensen]

You're right, there are other issues with columns which I've been pondering as well. I just mentioned the issue with column breaks as I wasn't sure if this specific aspect was related to the section break identification.

[michaelDCurran]

Microsoft Word exposes all breaks as page break characters (0x12)
However We could announce section changes like we do for page changes. I.e. when arrowing anywhere if the section changes we could say "section x" before the text, where x is the new section number. We can get this with selection.sections(1).index