Bug 43257 - org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText is not accessible
Summary: org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText is not accessible
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Carolyn MacLeod CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2003-09-17 17:59 EDT by Yen Lu CLA
Modified: 2004-02-11 17:49 EST (History)
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Description Yen Lu CLA 2003-09-17 17:59:05 EDT 
When a StyledText is used to create a hyperlink effect, the hyperlink does not 
appear to be accessible using Microsoft Narrator, JAWS nor MS Inspect. To 
reproduce the problem, just check out Eclipse's Help->About dialog. None of 
the text nor links get read and MS Inspect shows no information for the links.

The links are the major problem for us as we've duplicated the implementation 
in our own dialog.
Comment 1 Grant Gayed CLA 2003-10-02 12:21:16 EDT 
This is partially fixed in the 3.0 stream:
- inspect now correctly identifies the underlying editable text
- the text, including its contained links, are now read out by WindowEyes

However JAWS still doesn't read it out.  Will continue to look into this.
Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2004-02-11 17:49:24 EST 
This is completely fixed in the newest upgrade version of JAWS 5.0 (5.00.809).
To upgrade, see Frank DiPalermo's comment in bug 38194.
Closing bug.