Microsoft Word text editor: accessibility enhancement

• Author: PaulBer19
• URL: paulber19@laposte.net
• Download:
  • stable version
  • developpement' versions
• Compatibility:
  • Minimum required NVDA version: 2025.1
  • Last NVDA version tested: 2026.1

This add-on adds extra functionality when working with Microsoft Word:

• a script ("windows+alt+f5") to display a dialog box to choose between most of objects 's type to be listed (like comments, revisions, bookmarks, fields, endnotes, footnotes, spelling errors, grammar errors,...),
• a script ("Alt+delete"") to announce line, column and page of cursor position, or start and end of selection, or current table's cell,
• a script (windows+alt+f2) to insert an element like a comment, a footnote, an endnote, without moving the focus,
• a script ("windows+alt+m") to report revision at cursor's position,
• a script ("windows+alt+n") to report endNote or footNote at cursor's position,
• modify the NVDA scripts "control+downArrow" and "Control+Uparrow" (which moves the carret paragraph by paragraph) to skip the empty paragraph (optionnal),
• some scripts to move in table and read table 's elements (row, column, cell),
• adds specific Word browse mode command keys,
• possibility to move sentence by sentence ("alt+ downArrow" and "alt+upArrow"),
• a script to report document 's informations(windows+alt+f1"),
• accessibility enhancement for spelling checker (Word 2013 and 2016):
  • a script (NVDA+shift+f7") to report spelling or grammatical error and suggested correction by the spelling checker,
  • a script (NVDA+control+f7") to report current sentence under focus.
• automatic reading of some elements as comments, footnotes or endnotes.

This module has been tested with Microsoft Word 2019, 2016 and 2013 (perhaps works also with Word 365).