Accessible labels in alerts claim to be ROLE_PASSWORD_TEXT

[Niklas Johansson]

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:
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/window/layout.cxx#2046

Here is were the AccessibleRole gets set to PASSWORD_TEXT (due to the 
fact that WB_WORDBREAK is set)
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/accessibility/source/standard/vclxaccessibleedit.cxx#226

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:
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/include/tools/wintypes.hxx#211

-- 
Regards
Niklas Johansson

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/attachments/20131102/8f8c02b0/attachment.html>