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Bug 22574

Summary: Accessibility: screen reader can not read a static text without UI control
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: hoshiura <hoshiura>
Component: UIAssignee: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 Keywords: accessibility
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description hoshiura CLA 2002-08-20 09:39:16 EDT 
A screen reader, JAWS 4.02, can not read a static text without UI control in
preference pages and property pages.

A Example is as follows:
In preference -- Workbench -- Label Decorations page,
A static text beginning with "Label decorations show extra information
about...." can not be read.

The JAWS can read a static text, which can not be focused on, by Insert+B or by
combination of Ctrl-Home and Insert-Down Arrow. 

In New Java project wizard, using Insert+B, JAWS could read the window title,
wizard page title and banner messages which user can not focus on. However, in
any preference pages and property pages, JAWS could read the only window title.
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-08-23 07:51:35 EDT 
What you are referring to is a Label rather than a staic text correct? This is 
a known limitation of JAWS - it can only read Labels that are the direct child 
of the shell. In future releases of Eclipse we may get support from Henter 
Joyce for this. Out dialogs have been designed such that no necessary 
information is inaccessible even with this limitation.
Comment 2 hoshiura CLA 2002-09-09 04:22:08 EDT 
I misunderstood a static text. I could understand the limitation of label 
without control.

And now I have one question. On preference page, JAWS reads only window 
titie,"preferences dialog" by Insert-B(ReadBoxInTabOrder).
That seems not to be JAWS's limitation since JAWS can read the other words 
with JAWS itself by Insert-B.