[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8339728: [Accessibility, Windows, JAWS] Bug in the getKeyChar method of the AccessBridge class

[Antonio Vieiro]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:36:50 GMT, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Backport of [JDK-8339728](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8339728) from 17u that solves some accessibility issues on Windows, for parity with 11.0.27/28-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 and for a multi-line string (that has been replaced) in `AccessBridge.java`.
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> OK. Thanks!

> I'm tempted to say that adding a short mention to turning on the accessibility bridge in the comments that describe how to run the test would go a long way to saving some time to people who, like me, aren't familiar with screen readers, but I'm not sure that this is something that belong into a backport. WDYT @jerboaa ?

Thanks for the review, @fthevenet !  Maybe updating the [doc/testing.md](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk11u-dev/blob/master/doc/testing.md) is a good idea too?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/3001#issuecomment-2724408597