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LibreOffice Writer: No output from screenreader when addding a comment in Writer #11684

Open peterpacult opened 4 years ago

peterpacult commented 4 years ago

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Writer
  2. Write a few words
  3. Move to the "add" Menu and hit Comment.
  4. appearently a windows opens, but nothing is spoken by screenreader

Actual behavior:

Nothing is said by screenreader

Expected behavior:

Screenreader announces what happens and what can be done in the comment window.

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

installed

NVDA version:

2020.2

Windows version:

Edition Windows 10 Home Version 1909 Operating system build 18363.1016

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

LibreOffice Version: 7.0.0.3 (x64) Build ID: 8061b3e9204bef6b321a21033174034a5e2ea88e CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI-Render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE Calc: threaded

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes.

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

No.

If addons are disabled, is your problem still occuring?

Not tested.

Did you try to run the COM registry fixing tool in NVDA menu / tools?

Not tested.

peterpacult commented 4 years ago

This issue has also been reported to the Document Foundation; see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135439

peterpacult commented 3 years ago

The issue still exists with NVDA 2020.4 and LibreOffice 7.1.

Adriani90 commented 5 months ago

This is almost fixed in LO 24.8, but the document needs to have more than one paragraph in order for the comment editing area to properly work with NVDA. I also commented on the coresponding bug in LO repository.