[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 100854] RTL: Persian and arabic diacritics are not accessible by using arrow keys to be read by screen reader

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100854

Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
Khaled mentioned in comment 1 and github[1], "Changing the behavior of
LibreOffice (and tens of other applications) is very unlikely since this is the
expected behavior by most users, also allowing the cursor movement to treat
combining marks separately is visually confusing since the marks will have zero
advance width so moving the cursor after them will not provide any visual
feedback.

I’m not sure how screen readers should handle this, though, but the problem is
not limited to Arabic (it affects any text where there are multi-character
point grapheme clusters) and is not limited to LibreOffice either."

The solution to this is to press alt+cursor key, which will make diacritics
accessible, as mentioned in comment 5 and bug 54494. But even with this
movement NVDA and JAWS on Windows and Orca on Linux still dont read the
character at the current cursor position.

https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/4664#issuecomment-236731312

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