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Bug 43257

Summary:	org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText is not accessible
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Yen Lu <yenlu>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3	CC:	konradk
Version:	2.1.1	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Yen Lu

2003-09-17 17:59:05 EDT

When a StyledText is used to create a hyperlink effect, the hyperlink does not 
appear to be accessible using Microsoft Narrator, JAWS nor MS Inspect. To 
reproduce the problem, just check out Eclipse's Help->About dialog. None of 
the text nor links get read and MS Inspect shows no information for the links.

The links are the major problem for us as we've duplicated the implementation 
in our own dialog.

Comment 1 Grant Gayed

2003-10-02 12:21:16 EDT

This is partially fixed in the 3.0 stream:
- inspect now correctly identifies the underlying editable text
- the text, including its contained links, are now read out by WindowEyes

However JAWS still doesn't read it out.  Will continue to look into this.

Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod

2004-02-11 17:49:24 EST

This is completely fixed in the newest upgrade version of JAWS 5.0 (5.00.809).
To upgrade, see Frank DiPalermo's comment in bug 38194.
Closing bug.