Bug 115955 - When using tab to navigate the Sidebar, Cell Style is updated without confirmation to screen reader.
Summary: When using tab to navigate the Sidebar, Cell Style is updated without confirm...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: a11y, Accessibility
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Reported: 2018-02-23 03:24 UTC by am_dxer
Modified: 2023-01-20 03:24 UTC (History)
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Description am_dxer 2018-02-23 03:24:04 UTC
Description:
When I press the tab key to navigate the sidebar, a cell style is applied but nothing is spoken to give the user context of what is occurring.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. After oepning a spreadsheet, press Shift=f6 to access the sidebar.
2. Start Pressing Tab. Orca on Linux will read Update, New and then Nothing if the tab key is pressed three times. NVDA on Windows is silent no matter how many times the Tab key is pressed.
3. If we now visit the Edit menu, we see the option to Undo editing the cell style.

Actual Results:  
Screen Readers do not announce anything about the cell style being edited.

Expected Results:
libreOffice should expose this information so that it can be spoken by readers.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 8d4d2bf5405ef9d4b0b126f96f882f01031defd6
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Comment 1 Alex ARNAUD 2018-02-23 09:35:26 UTC
(In reply to am_dxer from comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. After oepning a spreadsheet, press Shift=f6 to access the sidebar.
> 2. Start Pressing Tab. Orca on Linux will read Update, New and then Nothing

It depends if the sidebar is opened on a specific tab or not. What tab do you have opened ?

I'm not a Calc expert so I need more details to understand what you mean exactly. My test on the style and formatting pane allows me to change the style of the cell only if I press the return key. Indeed, when I press the return key I hear no confirmation of the style change on the cell , is it what you mean?

Best regards.
Comment 2 am_dxer 2018-02-23 13:20:21 UTC
I think it is Properties. If you perform a user profile rese and then perform the steps above, you will be on the tab of the Sidebar that I was on. I actually am not pressing enter. Just pressing tab seems to apply some style because we can see that it is possible to undo it in the edit menu even if we just press tab.
Comment 3 Alex ARNAUD 2018-02-23 15:06:27 UTC
OK, I can reproduce the bug but I'm not sure if it is related to accessibility. It seems it's more general issue.

The steps I've followed are:
1) Reset my LibreOffice profile
2) Open LibreOffice Calc
3) Press shift+F6 to move on the sidebar
4) Press tab two times
5) Open the edit menu

Same result as described by  am_dxer.

On the step 4 the cursor cycle through the sidebar property pane even if this not visible. It should be possible but it's another bug.

The issue doesn't appear if the "styles" tab of the sidebar is visible.

@buovjaga: What is your input about this bug? If the issue is cycling through the sidebar when is shouldn't be possible to I think we should solve the keyboard cycling issue so.

Best regards.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2018-02-23 16:17:45 UTC
It's a bit hard to reproduce reliably, but I was able to do it. Yet, I could not verify if it actually applies the style that happens to be selected. I switched to having another style selected, but I could not reproduce it again.

I did not reach Update and New buttons with tab.

Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: e1082e45361a92a31adedcc3ed0a35c704bca543
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-02-15_23:24:06
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); Calc: group
Comment 5 am_dxer 2018-05-25 14:31:41 UTC
This appears to be a very old bug. I reproduced it in 4.4.7.2
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2019-05-26 02:51:52 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2023-01-20 03:24:47 UTC
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