Bug 236440 - [hovering] Hover over text of View Marker not read by Screen reader
Summary: [hovering] Hover over text of View Marker not read by Screen reader
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78244
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.5   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2008-06-10 10:05 EDT by Paul Klicnik CLA
Modified: 2008-08-11 03:28 EDT (History)
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Description Paul Klicnik CLA 2008-06-10 10:05:36 EDT 
Build ID: 3.3.2

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Install & Open a screen reader (I was using Windows Eyes)
2. Create a java project and simple class file (with just a main() method)
3. Type in an error into the main() method (eg System.hjdksfhdk.println("error") )
4. Hover over the resulting error marker in the Java editor view - the screen reader will recognize the marker, but won't read the associated hover-over text

More information:
This problem is not specific to JDT's Java Editor - this problem also exists in the CVS views (or any view which uses the Marker API).
Comment 1 Kim Horne CLA 2008-06-11 08:29:42 EDT 
Not sure where to put this.  It may be best to break this up into multiple bugs...
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2008-06-11 08:54:03 EDT 
This is an issue with the editor framework in general as it is to due with the entry in the ruler.
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2008-06-11 09:02:49 EDT 
Paul, where exactly do you hover (squiggly line in editor, ruler,...)? Also, can you be more specific what you meant with "CVS views"?
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2008-06-11 09:47:43 EDT 
This got improved in 3.4: if the focus is transferred to the hover either by pressing F2 or by moving the mouse into the hover then the text is read.

For 3.5 we should find a way that the hover is read when it appears.

See also bug 78244.
Comment 5 Paul Klicnik CLA 2008-06-12 08:15:32 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Paul, where exactly do you hover (squiggly line in editor, ruler,...)? Also,
> can you be more specific what you meant with "CVS views"?
> 

I only encountered the issue when I tried to hover over the ruler marker. I did not try to hover over the squiggly line in the editor because that is not applicable to us.

Ignore my comment regarding the CVS views - after opening this defect, I did some inspections and the problem I'm running into in that case is not the same as this one.

As a side note to this, I downloaded the latest 3.5 build and tested out the markers and it worked much better than the build we're on. The only issue is that you need to hover over the resulting dialog after the tooltip gains focus...I think it would be ideal to have the text read as soon as the tooltip appears (like Daniel said)
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2008-08-11 03:27:57 EDT 
>For 3.5 we should find a way that the hover is read when it appears.
Not really, but rather make it accessible via keyboard somehow.
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2008-08-11 03:28:41 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78244 ***