[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118418] Should implemented scrollto, scrolltopoint, scrollsubstringto, scrollsubstringtopoint

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118418

--- Comment #10 from Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> ---
Giving more technical details.

By "it's far from complete", I mean that the scrollSubstringTo method is
usually not implemented by widgets of libreoffice, it's really implemented only
in sw/source/core/access/accpara.cxx, and only for the SCROLL_ANYWHERE request
case.

But in the current screen reader usage (show the progress of the speech
synthesis for a long reading), the widgets for which scrollto* support is
useful is the widgets which represent text inside a scrollable area.

The support in accpara is thus already covering the main usage: reading the
text of the document. Possibly some other document elements would welcome
adding the support, when for instance the document is composed of a series of
images with descriptions, without any text in between. That's however quite low
priority.

One thing I can think of that would be useful is for textviews in dialog boxes,
for instance in lowriter's File->Properties, in the Description tab, the
Comments textview. That widget shows up from times to times, e.g. in the
spelling dialog box, in the Envelope dialog box, etc. Quite often the textview
is tall enough for the text to fit and no scrolling is required, but adding the
support there would probably be useful.

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