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Bug 369212

Summary:	[Accessibility] JAWS does not read tooltip (displayed by F2) for the ShowViewDialog
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sergey Boyko <serg.boyko2011>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	carolynmacleod4, eclipse.felipe
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Sergey Boyko

2012-01-20 07:38:10 EST

Support for showing a view's description in ShowViewDialog was introduced in 3.4M1 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128529) and was removed in 3.6M2 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=224546).

However I have a request to add support for JAWS reading that tooltip for Eclipse 3.5 release.

Reproducible: Always in Eclipse 3.5

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Run JAWS 12
1. Open Eclipse 3.5
2. Choose menu 'Window/Show View/Other...' and select any item in the treeviewoperation. Click "Next >" button.
3. Press 'F2'. Tooltip is displayed.

Actual: 
JAWS does not read the text in tooltip

Expected: 
JAWS should read the text in tooltip

Comment 1 Carolyn MacLeod

2012-01-23 12:26:51 EST

There is a workaround that JAWS users would likely discover. After typing F2 to bring up the description, type JAWSKey+DownArrow  (i.e. on a desktop machine, this would be INS+DownArrow). This tells JAWS to "Say All" and it will read the description.

We will not be making any changes to Eclipse 3.5 to get JAWS to read this automatically when tooltip verbosity is configured.