----- On Mar 2, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Stepan Salenikovich [email protected] wrote:
> ----- On Feb 14, 2017, at 6:22 PM, Jeremy Lincicome [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> I'm running the Orca screen reader on Ubuntu 16.10. >> >> There's an issue when tabbing around the Ring window. When tabbing >> around the window, Orca will suddenly stop speaking. >> >> I'm not sure what's going on visually when this happens. I can recover >> by using flat review and looking for the text label of the search box >> and simulating a left click on it. >> >> Steps to reproduce: >> >> 1. Launch Orca by pressing Alt+Super+s. >> >> 2. Launch Ring. >> >> 3. Press tab to move around the screen. >> >> Eventually, Orca will stop reading to you. >> >> 4. To recover, use flat review to find the text that says "search" and >> simulate a left click on it. >> >> The flat review commands for Orca can be found at: >> >> https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/commands_mouse.html.en >> >> Note: >> >> When you launch Orca, you will be in desktop layout by default. >> >> Thanks for looking into this. >> >> Jeremy > > It seems that after tabbing into the WebKitWebView (which is used to display > the chat) it does not change focus to the next widget when tabbing again. > Although > shift + tab works to leave it. > > I've pushed a small patch for review which should fix this issue once it is > merged: > https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/#/c/6207/ > > I quickly tested with the screen reader enabled. Unfortunately I noticed that > the screen reader isn't able to read the chat messages which are in the > WebView, > which I assume is the desired behaviour. I'm not sure if that is what happened > previously when we used the GtkTextView for it. Maybe its something that can > be easily fixed... > > -stepan Actually, I just realized that using Control + Tab and Control + Shift + Tab seems to work to navigate. Is this an acceptable solution for those using Orca? My initial patch to fix the Tab and Shift+Tab not working was simply to disable keyboard focus in the chat view, but I don't like this because then you can't scroll using the arrow keys.
