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Bug 369212 - [Accessibility] JAWS does not read tooltip (displayed by F2) for the ShowViewDialog
Summary: [Accessibility] JAWS does not read tooltip (displayed by F2) for the ShowView...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-01-20 07:38 EST by Sergey Boyko CLA
Modified: 2012-01-23 12:26 EST (History)
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Description Sergey Boyko CLA 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 CLA 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.