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josephsl / wintenApps

Windows App Essentials NVDA add-on
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"More" button and associated menu in clipboard are not spoken #67

Closed sukiletxe closed 2 years ago

sukiletxe commented 2 years ago

First, I apologise if I must direct this to code. Tell me to do so and I'll close this and open an issue there.

When I copy some text to the clipboard and I access it with Win+ V, a menu with the available text is displayed. With object navigation I can see that there is a more button. I can't activate this button, or if I can activate it I can't notice its results, in any way (tried mouse routing and activating the object itself with NVDA + Enter in laptop keyboard). I can do so with Narrator (using tab and enter), and I can see this menu contains items such as pin, delete, and delete all.

(I have pinned items by accidents in the past, that's why I was looking for this button in the first place)

josephsl commented 2 years ago

Hi, this is partly because clipboard history in Windows 10 is really an overlay that does not really change system focus when opened. Another reason is that when clipboard history is closed, system focus does not move to where you were before opening this window. I’m afraid this is something a bit beyond NVDA at this point (this issue was solved in Windows 11, and Windows 10 is in maintenance mode at the moment). Thanks.

cary-rowen commented 2 years ago

Hi @josephsl

Is this really unsolvable? Both JAWS2022 and Narrator work as expected.

josephsl commented 2 years ago

Hi, nope due to focus issues (at least for NVDA at this time) – risks outweigh the benefits (NVDA getting stuck after moving system focus to let it announce these controls, repeated focus announcements especially in emoji panel portion). Besides in Windows 10, emoji panel is treated as an overlay – focus issue is somewhat resolved in Windows 11 but it has its own issues, namely focus getting stuck when closing clipboard history. Also, Windows 10 is in maintenance mode, so I expect no changes to emoji panel and clipboard history on Windows 10 unless Windows 11 panel is backported and focus issues are not seen (both are highly unlikely now). Sorry.