> On Jul 30, 2026, at 01:41, Aaron Zschauer via Interest > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I'd like to report an accessibility bug, but I haven't been able to file it > directly on bugreports.qt.io (my account has no "Create Issue" permission on > the relevant project) or via the forum (my post was flagged as spam and > deleted). Filing here instead — apologies if this isn't the ideal list, but I > couldn't find a more specific channel. > Component: Widgets — multiline text edit (QPlainTextEdit / QTextEdit) > Assistive tech: NVDA > Issue: When navigating a multiline text edit field with the cursor (e.g. > arrow-key line navigation) and the cursor lands on a blank line, NVDA > announces the content of the line above instead of announcing "blank." This > makes it impossible to reliably tell that a line is empty while reviewing or > editing text. > Steps to reproduce: > 1. Open any Qt application with a multiline text edit control (QPlainTextEdit > or QTextEdit) > 2. Enter several lines of text with at least one blank line in between > 3. Using NVDA, navigate line-by-line (Down/Up arrow) until the cursor reaches > the blank line > Expected result: NVDA announces "blank" (or equivalent) when the cursor is on > an empty line. > Actual result: NVDA re-announces the text of the previous non-empty line > instead. > Additional context: This is not fixable on the NVDA side — NV Access has > indicated the issue originates from how Qt exposes caret/line position via > the accessibility API (likely a missing or incorrect > line-boundary/text-offset report to the platform accessibility layer), not > from NVDA's line-reading logic. > Could someone either file this in the tracker on my behalf, or let me know > how to resolve the permission issue so I can file directly? > Thanks, > Aaron Zschauer
Thanks for the report. Filed as https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTBUG-148651 You didn’t say which Qt version; 6.11? _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
