Bug 138664

Summary: UI: When I switch to slide show mode in impress, the orca screen reader continues to read the underlying text and structure of the slide
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Pranav Lal <pranav.lal>
Component: ImpressAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: m.weghorn, stephane.guillou
Priority: medium Keywords: accessibility
Version: 6.4.7.2 release   
Hardware: ARM   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 101912    

Description Pranav Lal 2020-12-05 02:37:58 UTC
Description:
In impress, when I switch to slide show mode, the orca screen reader does not read the text in that mode of the presentation. It continues to work as if I am still in the regular mode where I create a presentation.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure you have orca running
2. Launch impress and open a presentation.
3. Hit f5 to go to slide show mode.
4. Use the arrow keys to read the presentation as it is rendered in slide show mode.
3. When in impress, 
2.
3.

Actual Results:
Orca does not read the text in slide show mode

Expected Results:
The presentation should be rendered in slide show mode along with text and graphics and multimedia


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
I am running impress on a raspberry pi 4 with the packaged version of libre office which I believe is 6.9.
Comment 1 Jason White 2020-12-05 15:45:58 UTC
I can reproduce this with LibreOffice 7 by importing a pptx file and then invoking slideshow mode.
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-12-15 16:12:47 UTC
Marking this bug as a duplicate of a more recent bug exceptionally, because that one has more detais and an example file. Discussion can continue there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 149488 ***