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LibreOffice Writer: Comments not indicated or reported in Writer #7700

Open Qchristensen opened 7 years ago

Qchristensen commented 7 years ago

Comments in LibreOffice writer work similar to the way they work in Word. Press control+alt+c to add a comment, type the comment, then press escape to return to the document. Press control+alt+page up or control+alt+page down to move between comments.

Using NVDA 2017.3 and LibreOffice 5.4.2.2 (x64), NVDA does not indicate comments when reading or navigating. If right arrow is pressed to move through text, when a comment is encountered, the cursor does not move and NVDA announces nothing that when the right arrow is pressed at that time. Pressing right arrow again reads the next character and moves focus.

When control+alt+page up or down is pressed, the focus moves but NVDA does not report anything.

zahra21 commented 6 years ago

hello. is it possible to read comments using navigator which can activate using f5? i am not familiar with office programs very much, but i know navigator behaves like brows mode which we use with different browser for reading html contents. God bless you and i sincerely appreciate your attention towards users of opensource office suites like libreoffice!

Qchristensen commented 6 years ago

Zahra,

You are indeed correct. The navigator (press F5) can be used to locate comments. That's definitely worth recording here, although it doesn't resolve the original issue. It would still be very useful to have NVDA identify comments and offer a way to read them similarly to how it works in Word.

zahra21 commented 6 years ago

hi. is it possible to provide supporting for brows mode in libreoffice like in microsoft word and web browsers? i am curius if nvda did not support brows mode for microsoft word, does word have capability of navigating to some elements like the way of navigation available in writer?

cstrobbe commented 3 years ago

Hi, I came here via LibreOffice Bug 92389 - Writer: Comment text not accessible with screen reader. What has been established neither in the LibreOffice bug nor here is whether the issue is solely on the LibreOffice side or not. More specifically, is specific metadata exposed by LibreOffice when a commented-on span of text receives focus? I assume that this would need to be something like IA2_ROLE_NOTE in IAccessible2 (based on the Role Mapping Table in W3C's Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1).

Adriani90 commented 5 months ago

@michaelweghorn I've also commented on that LO bug with some testing results, first of all thank you very much guys for the great work in improving accessibility of LO.

On NVDA's side the presence of comments is still not announced while navigating through a text. In MS Word, NVDA reports "has comment" and "end of comment" when navigating in and out of a text area with a comment.