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Bug 39596

Summary: [Accessibility] Should inform user when there is no help for a control
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component: SWTAssignee: Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: matt, snorthov
Version: 2.1Keywords: accessibility
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Tod Creasey CLA 2003-07-03 08:27:11 EDT 
Pop-up help is not navigable or consistent. 

If pop-up help is not available for a particular control, e.g., the use 
default location check box in the new projects wizard, the pop-up should say 
so. When it is available, it would be very helpful if it were navigable with 
the arrow keys. BTW, it is possible, via MSAA, to provide “virtually 
navigable” text. That is, the native control does not provide navigation but 
the screen reader does via MSAA. I don’t know precisely how this is done. It 
has one downside in that GTK may not provide equivalent function.
Comment 1 Steve Northover CLA 2006-06-28 13:47:31 EDT 
I'm not quite sure what this is asking, CAR do you know?
Comment 2 Karice McIntyre CLA 2006-12-04 11:35:21 EST 
Tod, I think you are referring to F1 help (pop-up) and the fact that you can't arrow through the F1 help text, correct?  If so, this bug may not be valid any longer since the help tray now appears when you hit F1.
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-12-04 14:21:53 EST 
I think this can be closed now as we have the help view and default help support throughout the UI