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Bug 295472

Summary:	[Accessibility] Toolbar button text not read using Linux-GTK + Orca
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Eric Williams <ericwill>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	carolynmacleod4, cocoakevin, eclipse.felipe, ericwill, Silenio_Quarti
Version:	3.6	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Michael Rennie

2009-11-18 10:09:41 EST

I20091110-0800

While investigating bug 293264 I found that no matter what toolbar I tried to have the button text read from the accessibility listener would always get an event for the toolbar control and never for any of the buttons.

From bug 293264 comment #3

"Putting a breakpoint in ToolBarManager line 129 I noticed that the
AccessibleEvent.e value is always ACC.CHILDID_SELF (the toolbar) so the
listener never returns the tooltip for the tool item. I confirmed this behavior
in a lot of other toolbars as well - for example the main Eclipse toolar, the
Package Explorer toolbar, the Log View toolbar, etc."

Carolyn thinks this may be a focus problem with tool items in Linux. This could also be a problem with Orca.

Comment 1 Michael Rennie

2009-11-18 10:14:06 EST

Linux infos:

kernel: Unbuntu 9.10 2.6.31-15
gtk: 2.18.3
orca: 2.28.1
vm: SUN 1.6_16

Comment 2 Eric Williams

2017-06-30 11:29:32 EDT

Not sure if this is reproducible, but as I am doing accessibility work in the near future I am going to assign this to myself.

Comment 3 Eric Williams

2017-08-02 13:22:39 EDT

I cannot reproduce this in GTK2. It's possible this was a bug in Orca and now works.

GTK3 accessibility support is badly broken, but that's a different issue tracked by bug 517380. Marking this as closed.