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title="UNCONFIRMED - Accessibility broken: Can't use Alt key to access menu items or activate commands"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142836">142836</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Accessibility broken: Can't use Alt key to access menu items or activate commands
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>greenandpleasant2000-support@yahoo.co.uk
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<pre>Version: 7.1.3.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 47f78053abe362b9384784d31a6e56f8511eb1c1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded
This issue has also been reported recently on LO "Questions":
<a href="https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/309597/about-using-alt-key-to-access-tabs-and-shortcuts/">https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/309597/about-using-alt-key-to-access-tabs-and-shortcuts/</a>
1. Open a document in Writer.
2. Select a word or phrase (say).
3. Now try to select the "Capitalise every word command" using the
accessibility shortcuts: ALT (hold), then press O then X then C.
EXPECTED RESULT: The shortcut letters should ALREADY be underlined in ALL menus
– without the user having to press Alt. Pressing the letter keys O, X, C should
successively highlight the relevant options in the primary and subsidiary
menus, and finally activate the command.
ACTUAL RESULT: The shortcut letters only appear in the primary menu when you
press Alt. The Alt + letter combinations do not work at all in the secondary or
tertiary menus (and there is no underlining in the latter), so nothing can be
selected, and no command activated.
This works OK in Windows. One user reports in the Questions forum that the
feature works in another Linux Distro, so could it be specifically a Linux Mint
issue?
See also <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
title="UNCONFIRMED - Shortcut letters in menus / dialogs are not visible or active until Alt key is pressed (Linux)"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=142791">Bug 142791</a>.</pre>
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