Bug 72121 - [ViewMgmt] View titles not read by screen readers
Summary: [ViewMgmt] View titles not read by screen readers
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Veronika Irvine CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2004-08-17 14:49 EDT by Crystal Xiao CLA
Modified: 2004-09-24 11:47 EDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Crystal Xiao CLA 2004-08-17 14:49:42 EDT
(by Crystal Xiao)
Create a java project
Create a java class
Turn on narrator
Show in Package explorer, the narrator does not read out the name of the view 
(Package explorer view).  (NOT EXPECTED)
Now turn on MS Jaws and show in Package explorer.  The MS Jaws also does not 
read out the name of the view (Package explorer view).  (NOT EXPECTED)
Comment 1 Crystal Xiao CLA 2004-08-17 14:50:15 EDT
(by Crystal Xiao)
Create a java project
Create a java class
Turn on narrator
Show in Package explorer, the narrator does not read out the name of the view 
(Package explorer view).  (NOT EXPECTED)
Now turn on MS Jaws and show in Package explorer.  The MS Jaws also does not 
read out the name of the view (Package explorer view).  (NOT EXPECTED)
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2004-08-18 11:23:45 EDT
Window Eyes does not read it either.

Moving to SWT as this is a limitation of CTabLabel2
Comment 3 Veronika Irvine CLA 2004-08-18 17:00:14 EDT
Tod, did you mean CTabItem?  There is no such thing in SWT as CTabLabel2.

The name of the selected tab in CTabFolder is read by Jaws _IF_ you give it 
focus.  This is the expected behaviour.  It is not very straight forward in 
eclipse to give the CTabFolder focus because 1) the editors use SHIFT Tab for 
their own purposes and 2) in Views you may need to Shift+Tab a few times to 
get up to the folder.

Commonly, Jaws users will use the shortcuts Ctrl+F6, Ctrl+F7 and Ctrl+F8 to 
navigate around the views, editors and perspectives because this will popup a 
list that will be read by Jaws.
Comment 4 Lin Ma CLA 2004-08-31 16:01:35 EDT
Lin and Frank tested this too and we find that moving between views, files and 
perspectives with Control+F6, F7, and F8 provides an accessible way to do 
thia.  The view titles are not window titles, but page tabs.  They are properly 
spoken when focus falls on them.
Comment 5 Veronika Irvine CLA 2004-09-24 11:47:37 EDT
Based on comment 4, I think there is no further work required here.