Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu Bar

[V Stuart Foote]

On 2024-03-04 12:58, David Goldfield wrote:

Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
...

In previous versions pressing the alt key by itself moved focus to the 
menu
bar. While I can still press key combinations such as alt-f to open the 
File
menu pressing just the alt key does nothing. Pressing f10 moves focus 
to the

menu bar but pressing alt is a bit easier. Is this a bug or was it a
deliberate change? I can't locate any options in Settings to revert 
this

behavior.



Hi David,

Like Jason, but on Windows,  key alone has never focused to the 
main menu with AT enabled.


F10, or cycling F6 remains the core keyboard and assistive technology 
movement. Nothing has changed.


Please note thought that for the current master against a 24.8.0 
release, handling of the Alt key has been adjusted as for tdf#54169 ( 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54169 ) to follow 
os/DE settings. Which, with a MS Windows assistive technology tools 
enabled signal, should toggle enabled with a screen reader in use.  You 
can check a current nightly of master and check for any impact.


Stuart

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Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu Bar

[Jason J.G. White]

On 4/3/24 12:58, David Goldfield wrote:

In previous versions pressing the alt key by itself moved focus to the menu
bar. While I can still press key combinations such as alt-f to open the File
menu pressing just the alt key does nothing. Pressing f10 moves focus to the
menu bar but pressing alt is a bit easier.
Interestingly, pressing Alt alone never moved focus in any version of 
LibreOffice that I can recall, under Linux. Thus it seems to be a 
Windows-specific issue. F10 always worked though, and still does.

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[libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu Bar

[David Goldfield]

Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community

Build ID: db4def46b0453cc22e2d0305797cf981b68ef5ac

CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL:
win

Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US

Calc: CL threaded

In previous versions pressing the alt key by itself moved focus to the menu
bar. While I can still press key combinations such as alt-f to open the File
menu pressing just the alt key does nothing. Pressing f10 moves focus to the
menu bar but pressing alt is a bit easier. Is this a bug or was it a
deliberate change? I can't locate any options in Settings to revert this
behavior.

 

 

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