[Nvda-dev] [NVDA] #151: Some menu items which display icons are inaccessible with NVDA (was: when i'll try to use the menu with right click or app key i sometimes found items that the program don't read them . and i always found this proplem in the menu "open with" while i am trying to open txt file with another program such as winword...)

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#151: Some menu items which display icons are inaccessible with NVDA
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  Reporter:  nithal  |       Owner:  nithal
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new   
  Priority:  major   |   Milestone:        
 Component:  Core    |     Version:  trunk 
Resolution:          |    Keywords:        
  Blocking:          |   Blockedby:  40    
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Changes (by jteh):

  * component:  Speech => Core
  * blockedby:  => 40
  * version:  => trunk
  * milestone:  0.6p2 =>
  * keywords:  many of the screenreaders on the world has this proplem but
               this proplem isn't found with jaws or hal =>


Old description:

> now i'll try to make the stips which i've used to found the proplem ...
> 1-  choose any txt file or doc file.  2-  bress the app key or the right
> click .   3-   go down with airo   keys  ...4-  when the screenreader
> says "open with" use the right caero then move up and down .  you'll not
> here the names of the items accipt one item that's in the end of the list
> which called :  "choose the program..."  or something like this.

New description:

 now i'll try to make the stips which i've used to found the proplem ...
 1-  choose any txt file or doc file.  2-  bress the app key or the right
 click .   3-   go down with airo   keys  ...4-  when the screenreader says
 "open with" use the right caero then move up and down .  you'll not here
 the names of the items accipt one item that's in the end of the list which
 called :  "choose the program..."  or something like this.

 many of the screenreaders on the world has this proplem but this proplem
 isn't found with jaws or hal

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Comment:

 This issue occurs because some menu items which display an icon don't seem
 to expose their name to MSAA. As far as we are aware, the only way to work
 around this is to obtain the name using display information. (We believe
 this is how other commercial screen readers solve this problem.) This
 requires display hooks. Although we have a very early implementation of
 display hooks, it is not yet ready for inclusion in NVDA. See #40 for
 details.

 Note that the "Open With" menu in Vista does not seem to suffer from this
 issue.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.nvda-project.org/index.fcgi/ticket/151#comment:1>
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