https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156968
Bug ID: 156968
Summary: NVDA screen reader doesn't announce all cells in some
tables (like Java settings, Expert Configuration
dialog)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.2.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
This is a follow-up ticket for tdf#99609 (and tdf#156473).
There seems to be no way to make NVDA announce all columns for the currently
selected row in the "Expert Configuration" dialog.
Steps to reproduce:
1) start the NVDA screen reader
2) start LO Writer
3) open the Expert Configuration dialog: Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice (Dev)
-> Advanced -> Open Expert Configuration
4) move focus to the table
5) expand the first node, move to the first "leaf item" (i.e. item that doesn't
have any further children in the tree view):
"org.openoffice.VCL:ConfigurableSettings['WM']"
Similar for the table of Java version on the advanced settings page.
# Actual result:
The NVDA screen reader announces the selected item/row, but not all of the
columns. As mentioned in bug 99609 comment 17:
> What NVDA actually announces is a little different ("<first cell> through
> <last cell>" for the selection), but FWICT, that's how it's implemented in
> NVDA at the moment (...).
In this case, it announces "org.openoffice.VCL:ConfigurableSettings['WM']
through false".
This way, the values in the "Property" and "Type" columns are not announced by
NVDA.
It's not possible to explicitly move focus to another column e.g. by using the
arrow keys either.
Therefore, there currently doesn't seem to be a way to make NVDA announce the
other columns at all.
# Expected result:
There should be a way to make NVDA announce all cells in a row in the Expert
Configuration dialog. (Either all at once, or move from one to the other,...).
# More information
Other applications expose similar table controls in the UI differently, in
which case the whole row is announced by NVDA, so taking a look at these might
give some ideas.
e.g.:
* Eclipse (2023-06): Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys
* Firefox (116.0.3): Application/MIME-type mapping table in Tools -> Settings
* Word: "File" -> "Options" -> "Add-Ins"
The Orca screen reader on Linux has a setting to announce the whole row in a
table, in which case this works, but NVDA doesn't currently seem to have
something like this for these use cases as far as I can see. (There's a "Read
entire row" command [1], but as far as I can see, this is primarily when
support for this has been added for tables within documents, not in the UI
elsewhere -- and it's not implemented for LO yet at this point either.)
This might need work in LO and/or NVDA.
Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f0a6c9c7da2f0393bdde2729565b2458d1ff6c5a
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
NVDA 2023.1
[1]
https://www.nvaccess.org/files/nvda/documentation/userGuide.html#SystemCaret
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