in outlook 2010 when I hit CTRL+R, I hear "Right alined"

[nvaccessAuto]

Reported by csm120 on 2014-10-23 12:44
When I'm in Outlook, and I reply to a message, I hear, "Right alined". Other commands give similar results, like CTRL+E will say centered for example.

[ehollig]

Using Outlook 2016, focusing or reading a message and pressing CTRL+R, CTRL+E, CTRL+L, etc. NVDA says "Left aligned". This is not a trivial issue, but I wanted to update it with my results.

[LeonarddeR]

I can also reproduce this with UIA enabled in Outlook 2016.

[Adriani90]

I can reproduce it now with NVDA alpha-17611,7b2861fc and both Outlook 2010 and Outlook 365. In my case, NVDA reports left aligned. I think Outlook expoeses the information via UIA or the accessibility API even when reading messages. If the text in the message is centered, NVDA will report that instead. The same for right aligned.
I think it will be really hard to filter out this reporting for reading messages. Ideally Microsoft should change the behavior in such a way that Outlook exposes this information only when composing, forwarding or replying to emails.

[Adriani90]

cc: @CyrilleB79 did you consider this when working on #10283?

[CyrilleB79]

No, #10283 does not change anything here.
I'd prefer not hold back #10283; it's already 5 years old!

[Adriani90]

cc: @seanbudd for triaging.

[seanbudd]

has this been reported to microsoft?

[Adriani90]

First of all we have to find out whether it is a message from NVDA or a notification issued by Outlook.Von meinem iPhone gesendetAm 26.06.2024 um 02:35 schrieb Sean Budd ***@***.***>: has this been reported to microsoft? —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[CyrilleB79]

It's an NVDA formatting message, not an MS notification.

Currently, we issue formatting information when pressing formatting shortcuts in Word and Outlook documents. Instead, we should should issue these notification only:

• in MS Word documents
• in Outlook e-mail when composing (writing) them

These notifications should not be reported in Outlook in a message being read.