Bug 138664 - UI: When I switch to slide show mode in impress, the orca screen reader continues to read the underlying text and structure of the slide
Summary: UI: When I switch to slide show mode in impress, the orca screen reader conti...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149488
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.7.2 release
Hardware: ARM Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: a11y, Accessibility
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Reported: 2020-12-05 02:37 UTC by Pranav Lal
Modified: 2022-12-15 16:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Pranav Lal 2020-12-05 02:37:58 UTC
Description:
In impress, when I switch to slide show mode, the orca screen reader does not read the text in that mode of the presentation. It continues to work as if I am still in the regular mode where I create a presentation.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure you have orca running
2. Launch impress and open a presentation.
3. Hit f5 to go to slide show mode.
4. Use the arrow keys to read the presentation as it is rendered in slide show mode.
3. When in impress, 
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Actual Results:
Orca does not read the text in slide show mode

Expected Results:
The presentation should be rendered in slide show mode along with text and graphics and multimedia


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
I am running impress on a raspberry pi 4 with the packaged version of libre office which I believe is 6.9.
Comment 1 Jason White 2020-12-05 15:45:58 UTC
I can reproduce this with LibreOffice 7 by importing a pptx file and then invoking slideshow mode.
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-12-15 16:12:47 UTC
Marking this bug as a duplicate of a more recent bug exceptionally, because that one has more detais and an example file. Discussion can continue there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 149488 ***