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Bug 66281

Summary:	[Intro] The form's Section title is not read by the accessibility screen reader tools
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Miravete Eric <eric.miravete>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	Dejan Glozic <dejan>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	cmaier, dipalerm, Lmao, mfaraj
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Miravete Eric

2004-06-09 08:59:37 EDT

When a accessibility screen reader tool is activated the form's section
title is not read when it acquires the keyborad focus as the another widgets 
that are in the form's composite (checkbox, text area, etc...).
It is not accessibility compliant.

Comment 1 Dejan Glozic

2004-06-14 18:19:57 EDT

Form section title by itself cannot acquire focus - it is static. Can you give 
me an example (what actual editor/view did you scan to get this findings)?

Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod

2004-08-27 02:43:05 EDT

We are looking at screen reader accessibility right now. Could you please list 
the exact steps to open the dialog or go to the view or whatever to show the 
problem? Thanks!

Comment 3 Carolyn MacLeod

2004-10-06 17:56:57 EDT

Eric, please give us additional information. We are looking at screen reader 
problems right now, and we do not know what problem you are referring to. 
Please list the steps to repeat to show this problem.
I am closing this bug as INVALID so that we do not waste any more time 
wondering what it means.
Please reopen if you can show what the problem is.
Thanks!

Comment 4 Miravete Eric

2005-02-15 10:57:29 EST

When the user goes all over the elements (text area, button, etc...) in an
eclipse forms by using the tabulation key the element's characteristics and the
associated text are read by the screen reader. Only the section title is not
read. It is read only when the user moves the mouse pointer on them. There is
not exist an issue to read this text with a keyboard action.
This problem has beed detected on the plugin.xml editor. On the tab Overview the
text "General Information", "Testing", "Plug-in Content" and "Deploying" are
never read by the screen reader whereas the section description "This section
describes general..." is read.

Comment 5 Dejan Glozic

2005-05-02 17:48:53 EDT

Tab key is used for controls capable of handling keyboard focus. I don't see 
how you can tab to static text. Sections that are expandable do accept focus 
on the expandable toggle hyperlink, and the link will report the section title.

I have played in this very page of Bugzilla and when I used the TAB key, I 
only got information about hyperlinks and widgets, but not about static text. 
For static text, I had to move the mouse over it. This is consistent with PDE 
editor behaviour.