<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> [12] JDK-7124285: Nothing heard from VoiceOver regarding the status of the progress bar

[shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com]

Hi Alexey, The accessible information is already set for the component 
in question and that is the reason it works with the accessibility short 
cut(without this fix).

Now the question is that my fix works across platforms and for tab key 
based focus traversal. So even without this fix, it works with 
accessibility short cut only on mac. My understanding is that 
accessibility short cut is specific to mac and there is nothing that we 
can do as those are handled at the OS level. Tab key is used on java for 
traversal and it works for other component's accessible information 
being voiced over but not for this component(which was fixed under this 
bug for all platform).

Thanks and regards,

Shashi


On 22/11/18 7:51 PM, Alexey Ivanov wrote:
> Hi Shashi,
>
> On 22/11/2018 09:43, shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com wrote:
>> The mac platform keyboard shortcuts are specific to mac and they work 
>> differently as I think we wont be receiving those key strokes at the 
>> java program level instead they traverse thro' the platform component 
>> level.
>>
>> It means java program won't be receiving the accessibility shortcut 
>> key event at all(With voice over ON) and I verified this by debugging 
>> (at dispatchKeyEvent()). Because those key strokes are consumed at 
>> the OS level and it knows the current active window and it traverses 
>> thro' the top level components of that window(from the accessibility 
>> perspective). Since they are consumed at OS level, we can't even fix 
>> that problem of internal traversal of the children components from 
>> our end.
>
> I think this is the expected behaviour. VoiceOver consumes its own 
> shortcut keys and they don't reach Java program. VoiceOver 
> communicates to Java program using accessibility interfaces and it 
> relies on the information Swing exposes. So you should look into what 
> implementation of AccessibleContext or rather 
> javax.swing.JComponent.AccessibleJComponent provides.
>
> Regards,
> Alexey
>
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Shashi
>>
>>
>> On 22/11/18 5:00 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>> On 20/11/2018 22:16, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>>>> Thank you Alexey. I agree to it as well.
>>>>
>>>> Sergey, I saw that the accessibility short cuts does not work on 
>>>> some of the components of the dialogs and only the TAB key has to 
>>>> be used to traverse the components. Hence I think the traversal 
>>>> must work for tab keys all the time. So with this thing in mind and 
>>>> considering the case of other platforms, should not this fix hold 
>>>> good?
>>>
>>> If accessibility shortcuts does not work for some components, then 
>>> it is a bug, which should be fixed.
>>> BTW "accessibility shortcuts" iterates over the children of the 
>>> current component only, you need to manually "move in/out" of the 
>>> component to iterates over the children of some other component.
>>>
>>>
>>
>