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If you fire an action by selecting an acceleraor JAWS give no feedback that that action has occurred. STEPS 1) Start JAWS 2) Open a text editor 3) Type something 4) Hit Ctrl-S - save occurs but the user is given no feedback
How does this work in other apps?
Yes it does - in word for example it tells you all of the accelerators
Seems like an SWT problem, since for Save we just set the accelerator on the MenuItem. Should be able to demonstrate easily in a standalone SWT app.
What is the expected behavior?
In other applications (such as Word) the accelerator is said i.e. for copy they say Ctrl C Copy.
Tod & I tried to figure out what JAWS was doing, and we believe now that it is simply reading the key presses from the keyboard. JAWS knows about standard operations like Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo and so it can speak those actions in detail. But it turns out that JAWS is really inconsistent. We can get some things to work in Eclipse, and we can get the same things to fail in Word, and vice-versa. We were able to get JAWS to read CTRL+S in Eclipse, as described in this bug report, so I am marking it "Works For Me". If Tod discovers a repeatable, reliable case that definitely always fails in Eclipse and always works in Word, then we will reopen this PR.
