[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8339728: [Accessibility, Windows, JAWS] Bug in the getKeyChar method of the AccessBridge class

[duke]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:05:33 GMT, Antonio Vieiro <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backport of [JDK-8339728](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8339728) from 21u that solves some accessibility issues on Windows, for parity with 17.0.15/166-oracle (and because it's marked as CPU25-critical-SQE-OK too). Low risk.
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> The test does fail without this fix (when read-out, the short-cuts are truncated, so for instance the menu short-cut "Ctrl+Shift+Period" was read out as "Control plus Shift plus P", instead of "Control plus Shift plus Period".
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> The new accessibility test passes on Windows 10 (tested with [JAWS v. 2025.2412.102 - February 2025](https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/JAWS) ).
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> Clean but for an update in copyright header in `AccessBridge.java`.

@vieiro 
Your change (at version 0d71e9700b9b8fdf2dccd34068d0ee857efba7ed) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/3291#issuecomment-2676161217