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Change strings being read in dialog to MathML

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python
Domain
accessibility

Research direction

Locate the dialog handling for relative rate change and relative pause change, then inspect how the current preference API value is applied during speech. The work is done when both strings use MathML for speech resolution and Apply/Ok updates the current value while preserving the prior preference behavior.

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Description

needs check User Interface

Although the strings can be translated, the "Auto" setting means the right version probably won't be read.

It would be better to use the MathML and let the speech resolution and translated speech rules do the speech.

There are two places to change: relative rate change and relative pause change. A way to do this is to save the old preference value, set a new value, do the speech, and then restore the old value. A problem with this approach is that this preference is now (during the current instance of NVDA running) an API pref that overrides a user pref, so Apply/Ok needs to set the value because re-reading the pref file won't change the current value.

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Python
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Avg merge
10h 40m
Merged PRs (30d)
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