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

[Alexey Ivanov]

Hi Shashi,

On 23/11/2018 06:04, shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com wrote:
> 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).

Then there's no bug.
Hence there's nothing to 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). 

I don't agree to making JProgressBar focusable because it's not supposed 
to be focusable.

Yes, that accessibility shortcut is specific to macOS, more precisely 
it's specific to VoiceOver.

If VoiceOver reads the value of the progress bar when it's selected 
using VoiceOver navigation keys, then it works as expected, doesn't it?

Tab key is universally used to navigate between *interactive* components 
such as text fields and buttons.
No, Tab key does not work for other unfocusable components such as 
JLabel and, as Sergey pointed out [1][2], for disabled components.

So Tab key is used for a different purpose. It was already discussed in 
this thread [3].

Other platforms have other accessibility tools with their own specific 
shortcut keys to navigate between components. You would use the 
shortcuts specific to your accessibility tool. If it does not work — you 
cannot navigate to the progress bar or its state is not read when you 
navigate to it — then it's a bug.


To sum up:
JDK-7124285 [4] is not a bug. So you will close it as Not an Issue. In a 
comment you will explain what keys are used to select the progress bar. 
Here's the quote from Sergey's message [5] on November 7:

> I … confirm that it is possible to select progress bar using 
> ctrl+option+up/down/left.
> Screenshot is attached to the bug.

If a similar issue exists on other platforms, you will file a bug to 
address that issue. If unsure, you can file a bug to investigate whether 
the progress bar is accessible or not.

Does it sound reasonable?

-- 
Regards,
Alexey

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2018-November/014695.html
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2018-November/014700.html
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2018-November/014715.html
[4] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7124285
[5] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2018-November/014636.html