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Bug 315679

Summary:

[NLS] Accessibility: Labels of lists are not read by JAWS in several wizards

Product:

[WebTools] WTP Java EE Tools

Reporter:

Hari Shankar <hshanka>

Component:

jst.j2ee

Assignee:

Hari Shankar <hshanka>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

ccc, david_williams, konstantin

Version:

3.2

Flags:

david_williams: pmc_approved+
ccc: pmc_approved? (raghunathan.srinivasan)
ccc: pmc_approved? (naci.dai)
deboer: pmc_approved+
ccc: pmc_approved? (neil.hauge)
ccc: pmc_approved? (kaloyan)
cbridgha: review+
ccc: review+

Target Milestone:

3.2.1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

PMC_approved

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

317505

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch	ccc: iplog+

Description Hari Shankar

2010-06-03 17:07:09 EDT

Build Identifier: 321

1.- Open the wizards for EJB, APP client, Connector or dynamic web projects and go to the java facets page. Using the keyboard, and with JAWS started, tab to the list of source folders. The label is not read by JAWS
2.- Open the new EAR project wizard, and go to the Enterprise application page. Using the keyboard, and with JAWS started, tab to the list of modules. The label is not read by JAWS

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Hari Shankar

2010-06-03 17:09:26 EDT

Created attachment 171031 [details]
patch

For some reason, the Table and Tree controls seem to need explicit setting of the accessibility 'name' value so that accessibility tools can recognize them. This patch uses the getAccessibility() api on these controls to sent the appropriate value. 

Verified that this is readable using Inspect (which prints the value on screen instead of reading it out).

Comment 2 Chuck Bridgham

2010-06-04 16:14:01 EDT

approve

Comment 3 Carl Anderson

2010-06-21 11:31:43 EDT

The current wizard pages are not readable by JAWS, which is a major accessibility problem.  We need to add some strings to be read in these cases.

There is no workaround for visually impaired WTP users.

Hari has tested that JAWS now reads these fields.

Chuck Bridgham and myself have reviewed this fix.  Hari is adding a couple of AccessibleAdapters to fields that otherwise are not read.  He also adds translatable strings for these adapters to the properties files.

The only risk that might be associated with this fix would be contained to the project creation wizards.  The changes should not effect non-accessibility usage.

Comment 4 Konstantin Komissarchik

2010-06-21 11:44:50 EDT

Thanks for the patch, but please open a separate bug for changes in JavaFacetInstallPage.

Comment 5 Konstantin Komissarchik

2010-06-21 15:43:56 EDT

Thanks for opening a separate bug. 

Hari, what is "Inspect" that you are referring to? I would like to have some ways to verify these accessibility issues, but the one time I tried to install JAWS on my system, it corrupted something in my drivers stack leading to blue screens and forcing a full OS reinstall.

Comment 6 Carl Anderson

2010-06-21 15:54:13 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)

I believe Hari was referring to Inspect32.exe, which is part of the Microsoft Active Accessibility 2.0 SDK Tools.  (It is free to download).

Comment 7 Carl Anderson

2010-06-23 13:07:27 EDT

I committed the j2ee portion of this patch to HEAD for WTP 3.2.1.  The FacetedProjectFramework portion of this patch is attached to bug 317505 , as per Konstantin's request.

Comment 8 Carl Anderson

2010-07-07 09:02:34 EDT

Konstantin has committed a change for bug 317505, so I am resolving this bug.