Bug 77132

Summary:	LibreOffice not Communicating Spelling Errors to Screen Readers.
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Marlin <marlincgrodrigues>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	jorendc, sleeping.pillow, vsfoote
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	regression
Version:	4.2.3.3 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Windows (All)
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Bug Blocks:	60251

Description Marlin 2014-04-07 10:24:59 UTC

When using LibreOffice 4.2 with screen readers, spelling errors are not communicated, so that the screen reader cannot announce them for us.
However, if you open the context menu, the suggestions are shown.
This is most likely a regression, as doesn't occurred in older versions of this branch.
I noticed this from the version 4.2.2 or something.
Also doesn't occurs in 4.3.

Comment 1 Jorendc 2014-07-04 20:54:04 UTC

Thanks for reporting.

@Niklas: you mind confirming this one. We, as QA team, have difficulties confirming this (marking as NEW).
I saw you fix http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c6ff6106882494be61425c4cad38f935fca97d47 related to notification of screen readers.

Thanks in advance,
Joren

Comment 2 Niklas Johansson 2014-07-05 12:57:05 UTC

As noted by Marlin it works in the pre-releases of 4.3 but not in the 4.2 series. 

I can confirm the issue with LibreOffice 4.2.5 on Windows 7 64-bit using NVDA as a screen reader. I tried it with and without experimental features activated.

The issue does not appear in LibreOffice 4.2.5 on Mac and Fedora, both of them report misspelled words, so it seems to be a Windows only problem.

Comment 3 Jorendc 2014-07-05 19:18:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> As noted by Marlin it works in the pre-releases of 4.3 but not in the 4.2
> series.
> 
> I can confirm the issue with LibreOffice 4.2.5 on Windows 7 64-bit using
> NVDA as a screen reader. I tried it with and without experimental features
> activated.

Thanks Niklas! So we can mark this one as NEW.
 
> The issue does not appear in LibreOffice 4.2.5 on Mac and Fedora, both of
> them report misspelled words, so it seems to be a Windows only problem.

So we can mark this one as a regression :-).

Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2014-08-01 20:12:25 UTC

So on Windows 7 sp1, 64-bit en-US with
Version: 4.3.0.4
Build ID: 62ad5818884a2fc2e5780dd45466868d41009ec0

movement into and out of a detected --spelling error-- object is announced, and corrections are available on context menu.