Bug 137498 - NVDA doesn't announce page footer & page header in LibreOffice Writer
Summary: NVDA doesn't announce page footer & page header in LibreOffice Writer
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.2.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: Writer-Header-Footer a11y, Accessibility
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Reported: 2020-10-15 09:26 UTC by juergenkohler23
Modified: 2022-08-30 07:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description juergenkohler23 2020-10-15 09:26:26 UTC 
Description:
NVDA doesn't announce page footer & page header in LibreOffice Writer

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Writer
2. To add a header to a page, choose Insert - Header, and then select the page style for the current page from the submenu
3. To add a footer to a page, choose Insert - Footer, and then select the page style for the current page from the submenu
4. Try to read the footer/header with the screenreader NVDA

Actual Results:
Footer/header is not announced by NVDA

Expected Results:
NVDA indicates header/footer


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
NVDA 2020.3

Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 1909
Operating system build 18363.1016

LibreOffice
Version: 7.0.2.2 (x64)
Build ID: 8349ace3c3162073abd90d81fd06dcfb6b36b994
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Peter Franke 2020-10-15 09:39:57 UTC 
I reproduced this bug using the following components:

Libre Office:

Version: 7.0.2.2 (x64)
Build ID: 8349ace3c3162073abd90d81fd06dcfb6b36b994

Windows:

Windows 10 Home
Version 2004
Betriebssystembuild: 19041.572
Comment 2 juergenkohler23 2021-05-31 08:18:00 UTC 
Still not working.