Bug 13930 - Extension Wizard Selection Dialog accessibility problems
Summary: Extension Wizard Selection Dialog accessibility problems
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P1 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.0 M6   Edit
Assignee: Dejan Glozic CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2002-04-16 15:19 EDT by Tod Creasey CLA
Modified: 2002-04-22 17:33 EDT (History)
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Description Tod Creasey CLA 2002-04-16 15:19:41 EDT 
It is not possible to get the cursor on the description text in the Extension 
Wizard Selection Dialog.

This poses two problems
1) You cannot read the contents with an assistive technology like JAWS as you 
can't get a cursor there
2) You can't scroll with the keyboard as the widget never gets focus

I would suggest enabling the caret for the description widget
Comment 1 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-04-17 19:39:38 EDT 
Having the cursor in the description is not an issue here, it is the key 
processing. Description area is capable of receiving focus (although it is not 
capable of rendering it). I have added support for arrow keys 
and 'PageUp/PageDown'. This allows keyboard scrolling of the description area 
when focus is in the control.

Since the form rendering control is used in many places in both PDE and Update, 
this support is automatically extended to all areas it appears in a 
ScrolledComposite.

I will open another defect for enabling caret and allowing text selection in 
form controls, but that is a different issue (visual focus indication).
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-04-22 09:12:19 EDT 
Tod, could you please verify that this is adequate for JAWS?
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-04-22 16:57:03 EDT 
This even though you can navigate far enough to move the scroll bars JAWS 
cannot read the text as it has no indication of what line to read from. The 
caret will be required for assistive technologies.

Please let us know the ID of the new PR you were going to log about focus 
indication.
Comment 4 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-04-22 17:33:35 EDT 
No carret issue will be tracked in bug #14356