Created attachment 180631 [details] Sample presentation When using presentation mode in Impress, the slide content is not accessible: It is not announced and there seems to be no way to navigate through it to have it announced. See this email on the accessibility mailing list, where the issue was reported first: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01005.html Steps to reproduce: 0) have a single screen setup, so that presenter console is not used (but should also have a decent way to do this with presenter console active, s.a. "Further notes" below) 1) start the NVDA screen reader on Windows 2) open attached sample presentation 3) switch to presentation mode, e.g. by pressing F5 4) switch to the 2nd slide by pressing "arrow right" key 5) try to navigate through the slide content to have it announced Actual behaviour: * in step 3: Screen reader announces that it presents the presentation, but just gives the name of the presentation * in step 4: Screen reader doesn't announce anything * in step 5: There doesn't seem to be a way to navigate through the slide and have its content announced. (At least I didn't find any.) Expected behaviour: It should be possible to have the slide content announced by the screen reader. In a quick test with MS PowerPoint (in a single screen setup, dual screen is behaving differently): * in step 3, NVDA announces: "Slide show, slide 1", then reads out the full slide content * in step 4, likewise, just for the second slide * using the arrow keys navigates within the slide, e.g. when pressing the "up" or "down" keys, it moves down/up a bullet point and announces the text for the newly focused item * moving between slides happens using the space key (one slide forward) and the backspace key (one slide back), as the arrow keys are used for navigation within the slide content when the screen reader is active (s. above) Further notes: * The is similar with Orca on Linux. (It announces "Content placeholder 2 panel" when switching to second slide, though.) * When using a dual screen setup and presenter console is active, at least "Current Slide, Slide 1 of N", "Current Slide, Slide 2 of N",... is announced, but I also didn't see a way to have the actual slide content announced or navigate through it, so that also looks like it needs to be improved. Version: 7.3.3.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: d1d0ea68f081ee2800a922cac8f79445e4603348 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Version: 7.3.4.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 30(Build:2) CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 5.17; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB Debian package version: 1:7.3.4~rc2-1 Calc: threaded
Valueable input from Marco Zehe on the a11y mailing list [1]: "Correct, in PowerPoint, when a presentation is started, both NVDA and JAWS, and presumably at some point, Narrator, too, will grab the slide contents and present it slide by slide like a web page. JAWS even annotates links, tables, lists, etc., in a very rich way. NVDA, to my knowledge, doesn't do that yet. In MS Office, screen readers have largely switched to using UI Automation (UIA) for access to all things documents and UI. This is primarily because of Narrator, which doesn't support anything other than UIA (MSAA and IA2 are only supported by way of an IA2 to UIA bridge, which is slow and unreliable). As a consequence, Microsoft never got on the IAccessible2 bandwaggon, but has pushed the UIA implementation in the Chromium project so they can stop using the IAccessible2ToUIA Bridge for Narrator's access to web content. There were even plans and experiments to switch Firefox over to UIA when I was still working at Mozilla. But since I am no longer involved there, I don't know if this is still on the table for the time after they finish the "Cache The World" project. So, in the long term, and as resources permit, the more future-proof way forward for LibreOffice on Windows might be to switch over to an UIA implementation as well. But even without that, there would need to be a concerted effort between the Impress and screen reader teams, like NVDA, to make NVDA realize that it is in a slide show in presentation mode, and gain all the access to the slide contents like it were a web page or similar. That cannot be achieved by one party alone I think. And getting Vispero on board for JAWS support is an even bigger fish to fry." [1] https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01007.html
*** Bug 138664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Already in: Version: 6.3.6.2 Build ID: 2196df99b074d8a661f4036fca8fa0cbfa33a497 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded Still the case in a master build from today: Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 28ff4647e9dac8eebe3a169e828bacc8dc78e363 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded