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Bug 322396

Summary:	[JFace] Orca sometimes cannot read Eclipse status line
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Oleg Besedin <ob1.eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	carolynmacleod4, daniel_megert, ericwill, joanmarie.diggs, ob1.eclipse, prakash, pwebster, Silenio_Quarti, vilmar, webczat
Version:	3.5	Keywords:	accessibility, needinfo
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	270472
Bug Blocks:

Description Oleg Besedin

2010-08-11 11:37:53 EDT

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #270472 +++

From bug 78244:

> > I am testing eclipse with orca, but with orca I can not read the status line
> 
> Does Orca read the status line in any other GTK application? If so, what Orca
> command do you use to read a status line?
Yes, I can read the status line in applications like gnome-terminal,
thunderbird, firefox, evolution, open office and etc. I mapped
Kps_lock+pageDown (or Insert+PageDown) to read the status line, like in jaws.

Comment 1 Oleg Besedin

2010-08-11 11:53:19 EDT

Patch from the bug 270472 applied to CVS Head.

Comment 2 jose vilmar estacio de souza

2010-08-11 13:31:31 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Patch from the bug 270472 applied to CVS Head.

I can test if it is applied in nightly build.
Thanks.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2010-08-12 02:01:20 EDT

>I can test if it is applied in nightly build.
The nightly builds take the source from HEAD i.e. if the comment says "applied to HEAD", then it means it will automatically be in the next nightly build.

Comment 4 jose vilmar estacio de souza

2010-08-14 06:28:55 EDT

Testing with Build id N20100813-2000, I found the following behavior:
1. When eclipse is launched and it presents a class in the editor, the status bar is shown. Orca reads the line and the column number, error/warnning messages and etc.
2. If i switch to package explorer and switch back to editor, orca no longer reads the content of the status bar.

Comment 5 Carolyn MacLeod

2010-08-17 11:57:58 EDT

According to Silenio in bug 270472 comment 11, if you give focus to the Outline view after this, then Orca+PageDown will work again. We should apply the patch for 3.6.1 (because it goes a long way towards fixing the problem), and close the 3.6.1 bug, then reopen this one with a new title: "Orca sometimes cannot read Eclipse status line". See comment 4 and bug 270472 comment 11 for details.

Comment 6 Oleg Besedin

2010-08-17 14:09:35 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> We should apply the patch
> for 3.6.1 (because it goes a long way towards fixing the problem), and close
> the 3.6.1 bug, then reopen this one with a new title: "Orca sometimes cannot
> read Eclipse status line".

This sounds like a good plan; done.

Comment 7 Oleg Besedin

2011-02-03 09:49:55 EST

Jose, Joan - any suggestions on what can we do on the Eclipse side to help?

Comment 8 jose vilmar estacio de souza

2011-02-10 07:23:49 EST

(In reply to comment #7)
> Jose, Joan - any suggestions on what can we do on the Eclipse side to help?

No suggestions. I'll install 3.7m5 to check if the problem is present.

Comment 9 Oleg Besedin

2011-04-25 09:47:07 EDT

Removing 3.7 target milestone as we are at the end of the last development milestone and we need information from Orca.

Comment 10 Eric Williams

2017-11-29 14:56:49 EST

I'm trying to reproduce this issue but I'm a bit confused as to the steps, and there are multiple bugs linked. Can someone clarify? 

Also what is the default mapping for Orca to read the status line? I can't seem to find it.

Comment 11 Eric Williams

2019-02-14 12:02:21 EST

*** Bug 530632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Eric Williams

2019-02-14 14:22:07 EST

Seems the issue is no longer reproducible on 4.10, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530632#c5