Assigning imput gestures to the various document formatting report options

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Reported by leonarddr on 2015-02-02 09:31
I think it would be a great addition to NVDA to be able to assign hotkeys to enable/disable reporting of the various document formatting options (links, headings). This would especially be useful for reporting table content/row headers, in my case at least. The gestures could be unbound, but I'd also like to suggest binding them to control+shift+nvda+accelerator (the one in the document formatting options). So, where report font name is assignt to the alt+f accelerator in document formatting options, the shortcut could be ctrl+shift+nvda+f.
If you main developers agree with this, I'd like to give a try to implement this.
Blocked by #4898

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Comment 1 by leonarddr on 2015-02-02 10:19
This was easier than I thought. http://bitbucket.org/leonardder/nvda , branch t4873.

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Comment 2 by briang1 on 2015-02-02 13:44
Although what you propose is a nice idea, it set me thinking about other text format reporting that would be useful. Despite it not being a good thing, a number of programs use bold or italics to indicate things in their software, ie restore points and in the case of revo uninstall, the items to be deleted, so a way to just allow this when it changes as one moves through text could be very handy, say on a toggle.

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Comment 3 by leonarddr (in reply to comment 2) on 2015-02-02 13:46
Replying to briang1:

Although what you propose is a nice idea, it set me thinking about other text format reporting that would be useful. Despite it not being a good thing, a number of programs use bold or italics to indicate things in their software, ie restore points and in the case of revo uninstall, the items to be deleted, so a way to just allow this when it changes as one moves through text could be very handy, say on a toggle.

Honestly, I don't understand how this what you're proposing conflicts with the suggestion done in this ticket.

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Comment 4 by jteh on 2015-02-03 01:02
I don't think these should be bound by default. It just uses too many keyboard shortcuts and we're running out of those already. We could consider binding a few very commonly used ones by default; e.g. table row/column headers, table row/column coordinates and links are probably pretty common.

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Comment 5 by bhavyashah on 2015-02-03 14:56
Hi,
Sorry for asking something not directly related to this ticket...
There is a concern that more keystrokes are getting used up, so, how about keyboard shortcuts with NVDA along with the Alt/Windows key?
Presently, NVDA uses the Ctrl and Shift key along with the modifier key.
What is this proposal's feasibility?

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Comment 6 by jteh on 2015-04-20 01:49
Rolling this into #4898.
Changes:
Added labels: duplicate
State: closed

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Comment 7 by jteh (in reply to comment 5) on 2015-04-20 01:51
Replying to bhavyashah:

There is a concern that more keystrokes are getting used up, so, how about keyboard shortcuts with NVDA along with the Alt/Windows key?

We already have at least one gesture using the alt key: NVDA+alt+c for reporting comments in Microsoft Word/Excel. It's possible to bind the Windows key, but my understanding is that some laptops still don't have a Windows key (even in this day and age), so this is better avoided for now.