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Created attachment 263951 [details] quick access: press F2 to make a persistent dialog If you open Quick Access, and switch the focus out, the Quick Access Dialog closes. I would like the option to press a key, e.g. F2, to make the QuickAccess dialog persistent, so I can switch focus to the IDE, and back to the Quick Access, while keeping the same list of results. Please, see the attached image to get an idea. http://imgur.com/n91XYZG.png
This is actually a major accessibility bug. Indeed, screen readers will read the content of popup only if it has focus, so the fact that it can't have focus prevent people using a screen reader to take advantage of the Quick Access field and Ctrl+3 shortcut, that would be very profitable for them.
I'm going to look into this.
(In reply to Patrik Suzzi from comment #2) > I'm going to look into this. Moving to RC1. Please remove/change the target milestone if you can't do it for RC1.
@Patrik: any news? Is it achievable for 4.10?
Moving target milestone to 4.11 for all bugs that are major or above.
Resetting assignee as Patrik seems not really involved on this issue, so let's make clear anyone else would be welcome to help.
So I'm trying using Eclipse IDE with the Screen Reader that's part of the default accessibility kit on Fedora 29. I don't think the search dialog itself is to blame for the screen reader issue: If I start a runtime IDE from my workspace (with a basic application, no .product) the table of quick assist is properly read by the screen reader. If I pick an IDE with the same versions of about everything, the table is not read. I can often hear the Screen Reader talking about being in an "Eclipse SDK Panel" (I'm using EPPs of Eclipse IDE) when it doesn't happen for the plain application. I'm wondering whether there isn't a subtility in product packaging or window lifecycle that makes that EPP package rename the "panel" and confuse screen readers, that do not properly realize the table is a widget of the current window.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/134374
So actually, let's ignore the screenreader part as opening the quickfix dialog solves it. (In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #8) > New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/134374 This patch open the QuickAssistDialog instead of the floating table when one presses F2 from QuickAssist search field. Some pitfalls: * F2 is hardcoded. I guess we need a declared key binding for that, don't we? * This new possibility doesn't show up in UI. It should show an extra message at the bottom of the table.
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #9) > So actually, let's ignore the screenreader part as opening the quickfix > dialog solves it. Then the summary should be updated. > (In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #8) > > New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/134374 > > This patch open the QuickAssistDialog instead of the floating table when one > presses F2 from QuickAssist search field. > Some pitfalls: > * F2 is hardcoded. I guess we need a declared key binding for that, don't we? > * This new possibility doesn't show up in UI. It should show an extra > message at the bottom of the table. I presume you can assign the bug to yourself.
New patch adds a label to inform user of the new features. Remaining issues: * When an editor is open and active, it captures for F2 shortcut even is quickfix is enabled. I'm wondering whether the "Editing Text" shortcut context should also check that editor is not only active, but also has focus * the F2 is still hardcoded.
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #11) > * When an editor is open and active, it captures for F2 shortcut even is > quickfix is enabled. I'm wondering whether the "Editing Text" shortcut > context should also check that editor is not only active, but also has focus Dealing with key binding enablement here is hard. The scopes are not dynamic enough and bypassing the KeyBinding from the QuickAssist may lead to bad results (there are some operations that user may want to still be available, some other not, hard to sort out which ones remain enabled and which ones don't). I suggest the shortcut to turn the shell into a dialog to be Alt+F2. Any objection?
(In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #8) > New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/134374 This does not fix this bug on Windows.
Mass change, please reset target if you still planning to fix this for 4.11.
As Quick-Access is now extensible, there is even more urge for improving its accessibility. However, I don't think I'll be able to work on it for 4.12, so targeting for 4.13
I'm closing this one as bug 500618 is a more generic approach to better accessibility for Quick Access. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 500618 ***
