Bug 8846

Summary:	Accelerators are not acknowledged by JAWS
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	n.a.edgar
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Tod Creasey

2002-01-31 11:16:28 EST

If you fire an action by selecting an acceleraor JAWS give no feedback that 
that action has occurred.

STEPS
1) Start JAWS
2) Open a text editor
3) Type something
4) Hit Ctrl-S - save occurs but the user is given no feedback

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2002-02-01 14:43:30 EST

How does this work in other apps?

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2002-02-01 14:49:36 EST

Yes it does - in word for example it tells you all of the accelerators

Comment 3 Nick Edgar

2002-02-01 15:11:40 EST

Seems like an SWT problem, since for Save we just set the accelerator on the 
MenuItem.  Should be able to demonstrate easily in a standalone SWT app.

Comment 4 Mike Wilson

2002-02-01 15:14:43 EST

What is the expected behavior?

Comment 5 Tod Creasey

2002-02-01 15:29:46 EST

In other applications (such as Word) the accelerator is said i.e. for copy they 
say Ctrl C Copy.

Comment 6 Carolyn MacLeod

2002-02-01 16:16:31 EST

Tod & I tried to figure out what JAWS was doing, and we believe now that it is 
simply reading the key presses from the keyboard. JAWS knows about standard 
operations like Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo and so it can speak those actions in 
detail. But it turns out that JAWS is really inconsistent. We can get some 
things to work in Eclipse, and we can get the same things to fail in Word, and 
vice-versa. We were able to get JAWS to read CTRL+S in Eclipse, as described in 
this bug report, so I am marking it "Works For Me". If Tod discovers a 
repeatable, reliable case that definitely always fails in Eclipse and always 
works in Word, then we will reopen this PR.