When you here these you can start typing. If you chose design Galathea, you will here when pressing right arrow next to a field 'edit left bracket'. I you hear for example 'edit Enes' and if you press right you will here 'Edit E'. When you press left or right key you will here when the formfield starts and when it ends. At the moment the only possibility is to navigate by arrow key. Unfortunately there are lots of things which have to be improved with respect to formfields and macros in MS Word, Excel and so on.

November 2017 21:45Īn: Re: using form fields in wordĬan I use the forms with a certain comertial screen reader? I think this would help indeed to make more people aware of this problem.

You could create an issue on github which should propose to link form fields in MS Word to navigation key in browse mode, like in a browser. I have the same problem at work several times. You have to find your work around with the arrow keys and ctrl + alt + arrow keys in tables to navigate between the form fields. I would really like to help you with this but there is no solution at this time. So there is in fact the same issue as in NVDA. Jaws has defined keys in browse mode for edit fields, combo boxes and so on in MS word, but the fields are not recognized by the screen reader in such a manner that it could jump between them when you press tab or e for edit fields in browse mode.

Adding form fields in word 2013