Bug 102164

Summary: No assistive technology indication when jumping from header/footer back to main document area
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: am_dxer <am_dxer>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: c_strobbe-fdo, jean-philippe.mengual, lkppo, patrick, philipz85, stephane.guillou, vsfoote
Priority: medium Keywords: accessibility
Version: 4.2 all versions   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: http://bugs.debian.org/870391
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Bug Blocks: 48741, 101912    

Description am_dxer 2016-09-13 15:57:46 UTC
Steps to reproduce:
1. Insert a header or footer via the Insert menu.
2. use control+Page-up and Control+Page-down to to move between the document area. 
3. Assistive technology does not announce whether focus has landed on the header, the footer, or the main document area.
Comment 1 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2016-09-14 02:08:46 UTC
I hear 'Header 1 Header' when i jump to the header in Orca 3.20 and 'Header 1 Page Header Edit' in JAWS. Didnt hear anything in NVDA, so it is likely a bug with them.

There wasnt any notification when returning to the document area, so i guess that is the only thing presently wrong. Though Orca did say "page down" when i pressed ctrl+pgdwn to exit the header.

@stuart, @texou, @alex: Any thoughts on this?

@am_dxer: Please indicate which version of LO, OS and screen reader you are using in your bug reports. :D
Comment 2 Alex ARNAUD 2017-08-01 16:00:56 UTC
Dear all,

I confirm the issue both on LibreOffice 4.2 and LibreOfficeDev 6.0 on Debian Jessie (8.9) with Orca 3.24.

As stated by Yousuf Orca announces when I switch between the body to the header but when I switch from the body to the footer I hear nothing, and when I leave the header/footer Orca doesn't announce I come back to the document body.

Best regards.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2018-10-02 02:52:41 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Patrick ZAJDA 2018-11-16 17:59:02 UTC
Hello,

On LibreOffice 6.1.2.1 jumping from the footer and the main content doesn't announce where we are, the problem is not present for header. On version 6.0.6.2 header and footer are announced avec Ctrl+Page up/down.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2023-01-20 03:24:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-11-08 23:57:22 UTC
I tested with Orca.

In 6.0.0.3 and 6.1.0.3 and nothing is announced when switching to the footer, nor when switch from footer to header (or vice versa).
However, body to header is announced.

Version: 6.0.0.3
Build ID: 64a0f66915f38c6217de274f0aa8e15618924765
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group

However, in a recent trunk build, _and testing with a new document_[1] landing into the header or the footer in any way is announced to Orca. I get "Header 1 Header" and "Footer 1 Footer" respectively for page 1.

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ff3fb42b48c70ba5788507a6177bf0a9f3b50fdb
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

So remaining issue is indeed to announce the return to the body.

[1]: I think this matters as the footer not being announced seems related to it not getting a "name" (?) when created with an older version of LO.