Information

functionality

the purpose of the addon is to find and correct the spelling errors quickly in a written text; additionally, you can create a list of words called personal dictionary; the words in which will be added to the suggestions list of the misspelled words.

usage

personal dictionary

in the suggestions' menu, there is an option to add the word to the personal dictionary. The next time you look for a similar misspelling word, the personal dictionary words will appear in the suggestions list in addition to the normal dictionary. For instance, if you added the word "Fawaz" to the personal dictionary, the next time if you typed "Fawz", "Fawaz" would be among the given suggestions. You can remove any word that has been added to the personal dictionary by editing the file (language tag).dic which can be found in the spellcheck_dic folder in the user configuration folder of the NVDA. That is for the installed version appdata/roaming/nvda and for the portable version user config folder. the file name for the US English would be en_US.dic.

Ignore for this session

The option before last in the suggestion menu is ignore for this session. So if there is a word which raises a spelling error, and you want it to be left out from being spellchecked, you can use this choice (Ignore for this session). for example: if the text was "hello users of nvda, we hope you are having a wonderful time with nvda and its add-ons. Unquestionably, nvda is an amazing screen reader.", if you added nvda to ignore for this session, the number of errors will reduce from 4 to one, the remaining one would be "addons". In other words, all "nvda" will be removed from the list of errors for that session.

Support for Other languages

The addon comes with the English dictionary by default, which will be installed with your permission while installing the addon. The spell check will be done depending on the keyboard input language. However, if the dictionary hasn't been installed previously, NVDA will prompt you to install the dictionary of that language. Once you click yes, the dictionary will be installed, and you can spellcheck in that language now on. Additionally, you can press NVDA+ALT+SHIFT+L to bring up a list of languages where you can select a language manually and download the dictionary if it hasn't been downloaded previously or perform spell check in that language. press the same shortcut once more to return to the previous method, which is checking based on the keyboard input.

notes

keyboard hotkeys