<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I've been trying to get a grip on bug fdo#70588 "Accessible labels in alerts claim to be ROLE_PASSWORD_TEXT instead of ROLE_LABEL". In short this bug makes text inside message dialogs unreadable to screen readers (on all platforms). I've followed the code around a bit and it seems to be an issue with different WinBits that has the same value, more exactly WB_WORDBREAK and WB_PASSWORD has the same value and indirectly set the AccessibleRole to PASSWORD_TEXT. In newer message dialogs here is were the WB_WORDBREAK gets added: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/window/layout.cxx#2046">http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/window/layout.cxx#2046</a> Here is were the AccessibleRole gets set to PASSWORD_TEXT (due to the fact that WB_WORDBREAK is set) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/accessibility/source/standard/vclxaccessibleedit.cxx#226">http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/accessibility/source/standard/vclxaccessibleedit.cxx#226</a> I should probably mention that WB_READONLY and WB_NOLABEL has the same value, but that has only positive effects in the above mentioned case because labels in messageboxes should of course be read only. Does it make sense to change the values of WinBits or how does one deal with a problem like this? For quick reference to WinBits: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/include/tools/wintypes.hxx#211">http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/include/tools/wintypes.hxx#211</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Regards Niklas Johansson</pre> </body> </html>