[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113488] New: Better support for Assistive Technology tools by exposing descriptive tooltips text with keyboard navigation

Fri Oct 27 22:23:02 UTC 2017

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113488

            Bug ID: 113488
           Summary: Better support for Assistive Technology tools by
                    exposing descriptive tooltips text with keyboard
                    navigation
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 4.1.0.4 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: UI
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: vstuart.foote at utsa.edu

By default mouseover events expose a more descriptive tooltip, or an extended
tooltip--when offline local help is installed and has an article pointing at
the button.

And with Assistive Technology (AT) support enabled, on mouseover of a button
control the descriptive tooltip is sounded by AT instead of the button label.

When keyboard navigation is used: e.g. F10, F6, TAB/ShiftTab, or cursor
UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT--the AT sounds *only* the abbreviated button label.  Same
for menu label, and context menu label which also sound just the short label.

If possible, for better accessibility support, keyboard navigation should offer
the same audible/visual rendering of the more descriptive tooltip(s) provided
with mouseover event of buttons.

A rework of label structure for menus, context menus and toolbar button labels
is being looked at for bug 108458. Perhaps in  conjunction with that, some
structural change to facilitate use of tooltip/extended tooltips with keyboard
navigation might be implemented.

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