Editing PowerPoint slides: content isn't read

[Sandra Pilz]

Hi,

I'm trying to edit PowerPoint slides. When I press enter on an item to be able to edit its contents, I am unable to read it on my Braille display and NVDA will not read the text either. I know the item isn't empty, because when I press escape and press tab to navigate to the different items on the slide, the text is read. It's just that I can't read it when I try editing.

I assume there's something wrong with my NVDA settings, because when I try the same using the beta version, There's no problem at all. I don't think it's the difference between the current version and the beta version, because I remember having had this problem in the past. At the time I deleted my NVDA settings directory, which resolved the problem. However, I would like to avoid doing this now, because this would also involve having to reinstall all of my add-ons again. 

So, does anyone have an idea How I might resolve this and which of my NVDA settings might be the problem here? 

Thank you.

Sandra

[Yasser Tamer]

Hi Sandra,

Could be resulting from some misconfiguration in your synthesizer?

I have had that issue before, and it got resolved when I changed the speech synthesizer.

I however tried it now and it worked fine.

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[Sandra Pilz]

Hi Yasser,

Thanks for your reply.

I don't think my speech synth or speech synth settings are the problem, because I use the same speech synthesizer in the beta, and it works in the beta. The Braille display doesn't show the contents of the item either, so I think it's another setting creating the problem.

Regards

Sandra

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[Yasser Tamer]

Hi Sandra, since you said that it worked when you deleted your settings/ configurations, maybe there could be an issue with an addon or add-ons breaking your PowerPoint compatibility.

Yasser

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[Andrew Downie]

Sandra, I cannot replicate here.  Did you create the PowerPoint or did it come from someone else?  I wonder whether something funky was done when creating.

Andrew

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[Cyrille BOUGOT]

Hi Sandra

Yes, to complete Yasser's good suggestion, try to restart with add-ons disabled and see if it changes something.

Cheers,

Cyrille

[Sandra Pilz]

Hi Cyrille and Yasser,

Starting NVDA without Addons doesn't help, it must be something in my settings. 

Thank you

Sandra

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[Sandra Pilz]

Hi Andrew,

No, it happens in any Presentation, even when I just create a new one. That's why I think it's domething in my settings.

Thank you

Sandra

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