GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 669632
Orca doesn't spokening right with menu items mnemonic informations
Last modified: 2012-03-04 15:34:41 UTC
Created attachment 207057 [details] Debug file with shows possible why happening this problem Dear Developers, For example in GNOME Terminal, Orca doesn't spokening right menu items mnemonic informations if checked the speak object mnemonics check box. Reproducation steps: 1. Launch for example in gnome-terminal application. 2. Goto the view menu, and look the menu items, listen the mnemonic informations. The full screen menu item you will be hear only ALT+ mnemonic information. This is reproducable other menu items for example in terminal menu item. I experienced this problem with Gedit application under view menu and tools menu, usual the check menu items. I attached the debug.out file. I see this problem under Ubuntu Precise, Orca 3.3.5 version. Attila
I can reproduce using ubuntu 11.10, latest orca built from master, unity 2d and eclipse. Orca reads alt+
That was a silly mistake made by me. :-/ Fixed in master.
Hy Joanie, I found similar issue when I browsing Thunderbird menues: If you go to the file menu, the first new submenu Orca spokening only ALT+ mnemonic letter. I experienced this issue with hungarian locale. In the view menu/layout submenu, the message window check menu item Orca spokening ALT+ mnemonic letter, but the mnemonic letter is F8 I think. You confirm this two issue with english locale? I attach tomorrow a debug.out file with this report, or open a new report to leave this bug status with resolved? Attila
The Alt+ without any extra character is now fixed in Orca master. When the shortcut is something like F8 or F1, we are not getting that information from Thunderbird. For instance, when I use Accerciser to look at the Action's keybinding for the first item under Thunderbird's Help menu, what I see as the keybinding is: "H;<Alt>H:H;" F1 is not there and moreover, we have no way programmatically of knowing F1 should be there or that we are presenting the wrong thing when we present the H instead. This is neither an Orca bug, nor something we can work around in Orca. Sorry!
Slight correction to the above comment: Because it is "H;<Alt>H:H;", because H is the underlined letter, and because Alt H followed by H is the full sequence, Orca is not presenting anything incorrectly. It is simply failing to present the F1 because it doesn't know the F1 should be there but is missing.