On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:47:02 GMT, Pankaj Bansal <pban...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>> If you need a new functionality and CSR I wonder how it currently works on >>> Windows and macOS, or it does not work? >> >> Haven't tested this functionality on Windows, on macOS with current JDK it >> does not work at all. After entering the JSlider interaction mode VoiceOver >> does not announce the a11y shortcuts and the attempt to invoke said >> shortcuts do nothing. > >> > If you need a new functionality and CSR I wonder how it currently works on >> > Windows and macOS, or it does not work? >> >> Haven't tested this functionality on Windows, on macOS with current JDK it >> does not work at all. After entering the JSlider interaction mode VoiceOver >> does not announce the a11y shortcuts and the attempt to invoke said >> shortcuts do nothing. > > Yes, as Alex pointed out, it does not work on MacOS. The VO only announces > the value and user can not modify the slider values using VO shortcut keys. > > I saw the windows code and I did not see anything where the current value of > a component is being set. I tested this by running JAWS as well. When a > JSlider is in focus, JAWS announces the slider values and then says "To > increase or decrease, use the arrow keys". The keys are being handled by JAVA > only and JAWS is not doing any part in it. To verify this, I commented the > code to handle keys events in Java and slider value does not change. So looks > like this does not work on Windows as well. > > If these changes are too intrusive, I can go with the second approach of > getting and setting the current values of slider in > performincrement/performdecrement functions in SliderAccessibility.m. I am > not sure if this will be correct approach, but it will be less intrusive and > will not need a CSR. If it does not work on Windows then I suggest checking that the new functionality requested via CSR will help it as well. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2874
