feature request: Add ability to navigate between format changes in document for Bookworm

[cary-rowen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

There is a lot of rich formatting in the documentation for emphasizing certain definitions or terms, such as bold or italic. Unfortunately, screen readers have no way to navigate them, which may degrade the reading experience if you enable report "Font attributes" in NVDA's document formatting dialog.
For this sentence: "No water, no life."
I made the words "water" and "life" bold and italicized respectively.
You might hear the following:
"No bold water no bold, no italic life no italic."

Describe the solution you'd like

Please add a letter or key for navigating through formatting changes,
Also consider adding a "Font Properties" drop-down combo box in Bookworm preferences with options for "Off", "speech", "Tones", "Tones with speech" etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None

Additional context

Actually part of this feature request is already implemented in tony's NVDA add-on.
see here

[mush42]

@cary-rowen
Wouldn't it be better if we apply the actual formatting of the text in the text area?

[cary-rowen]

Hi @mush42
You mean, leave the task of formatting the report to the screen reader? ?
If so, apply the actual formatting attributes to the text, but with the current NVDA report formatting attributes, he still reduces reading efficiency, as I said in the problem description.

Best

[mush42]

@cary-rowen
The problem with the setting you suggested is that we couldn't control the screen reader speech output.
The problem with assigning navigation letters is that: do navigation targets constitute meaningful, whole units? For formatted text, I think this property does not hold.

[cary-rowen]

Hi @mush42
Sorry, I'm not sure I fully understood your expression.
You might try installing browse-Nav to get a feel for it:

I used markdown to apply the bold and italic attributes to 'love' and 'race' in the sentence below:

Use the features of Browser-Nav:

` orShift+` (backquote or tilde): Jump to next or previous format change.

Love knows no race, creed or gender.

It's not hard to see that love and race have become a single entity, but the rest of the words can be navigated as well, so I think this already forms a meaningful overall unit.

Best