Bug 166546 - Incorrect character narrated when navigated to next paragraph with JAWS
Summary: Incorrect character narrated when navigated to next paragraph with JAWS
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Michael Weghorn
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: a11y, Accessibility
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Reported: 2025-05-12 15:17 UTC by raal
Modified: 2025-05-13 05:53 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description raal 2025-05-12 15:17:28 UTC
Description:
When JAWS screen reader user places the text cursor at the very end of the current paragraph and then navigates using the Right arrow key to the first character of the following paragraph, JAWS narrates the first character of the previous paragraph instead of the first character of the current paragraph.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create two paragraphs of text.
2. Turn on JAWS screen reader.
3. Navigate with the text cursor to the very end of the first paragraph.
4. Press the Right arrow key so that the text cursor navigates to the first character of the following paragraph.

Actual Results:
The first character of the first paragraph is narrated by JAWS.

Expected Results:
The first character of the second paragraph should be narrated by JAWS.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Bug created on behalf of Adam Samec.
Comment 1 Michael Weghorn 2025-05-13 05:30:10 UTC
I'm in contact with Vispero support and currently looking into an issue that's likely the same (moving to the next paragraph in Writer using the down arrow key).

It involves quite some rework of how LO internally handles accessible events and more things intertwined with that, so might still take a while.