Comment 1 by Bernd on 2012-06-11 22:10
The preferences are accessible now with Version 1.4.7. Dropbox has to make the tap panel accessible. I couldn't switch the tab using object navigation so I think this is a bug on Dropbox side.

Comment 2 by jteh on 2012-06-12 00:53
Ideally, Dropbox should make this control properly accessible. That said, I'm not sure why our display model can't see the text in this control.

A work around is to use the OCR plugin on this object.
Changes:
Changed title from "NVDA not working in Dropbox Preferences dialog" to "Tab control in Dropbox Preferences dialog inaccessible"

Attachment dropbox.zip added by k_kolev1985 on 2012-06-12 07:02
Description:
NVDA app module for DropBox's preferences window

Comment 3 by k_kolev1985 on 2012-06-12 07:11
Hello,

Actually, there is a NVDA app module for DropBox's preferences window. It helps to switch between tabs with Control+TAB and Control+Shift+TAB. Control+Alt+T reports the currently selected TAB and Escape closes the dialog without saving the changes (like pressing the "Cancel" button).

I've attached the app module here in a .zip archive. Unzip it in your NVDA user configuration directory, in the "appModules" subdirectory. Then press NVDA+Control+F3 to reload the NVDA plugins or if this does not work - restart NVDA.

The plugin is save to use and works as it should if your copy of DropBox is set to display its interface in english. I can't remember who the developer is. I just modified the plugin to work with the english version of DropBox (initially was adapted to work only if DropBox is in spanish or portuguese).

I know that the DropBox team should fix those issues internally, but this NVDA app module for it should simplify matters until they do it.

HTH

Comment 4 by briang1 on 2012-06-12 07:58
I assume this is not yet packaged for the new add on manager?

also there was a dropbox update only two days ago here but the old bug still exists as far as I can tell.

Comment 5 by k_kolev1985 on 2012-06-12 08:16
No, it is not. But after that I looked on the italian site from witch I got this plugin and found that there is a new version witch is adapted to work with the new NVDA add-on system. I'm attaching it here. I have adapted it to work with the english version of DropBox.

Attachment dropboxplugin.nvda-addon added by k_kolev1985 on 2012-06-12 08:19
Description:
NVDA addon for DropBox's preferences window.

Comment 6 by k_kolev1985 (in reply to comment 5) on 2012-06-12 08:22
Replying to k_kolev1985:

No, it is not. But after that I looked on the italian site from witch I got this plugin and found that there is a new version witch is adapted to work with the new NVDA add-on system. I'm attaching it here. I have adapted it to work with the english version of DropBox.

Edit: this addon includes also the global plugin witch reports the status of DropBox and can invoke the DropBox main context menu (the one from the system tray). Pressing NVDA+Shift+D will report the DropBox status, pressing it twice will say the currently installed version of DropBox and three times will bring up the DropBox main context menu.

Comment 7 by clev on 2012-10-08 12:35
To the Dropbox Add-on author: Firstly, thank you for such good work. When possible, please make the Dropbox selective sync window accessible as well. I would highly apreciate this, for personal needs. Many thanks.

Comment 8 by jteh on 2013-01-08 08:28
7920501 allows NVDA's display model to see the text in this tab panel, which means you can now use the review cursor and click the various tabs. An add-on is still needed if you want keyboard shortcuts to work to switch tabs.

Comment 9 by briang1 on 2013-01-09 07:57
There are other pieces of software where the tabs are hard to get to without driectly driving the focus there , ie it does not appear in the tab order, notably autoruns, and malwarebytes.

The latter has list display issues of course as well.

Comment 10 by nvdakor on 2014-12-13 03:12
Hi,
With recent thread about Dropbox on the users list, could we have Dropbox users comment on this ticket and see if the issue persists? People over at the users list say it still persists.
Thanks.

Comment 11 by briang1 on 2014-12-13 09:11
OK ,I'll start.
version 2.xx has this issue on most versions of Windows with non use of the add on.
Version 3 which seems to be being rolled out now, works more or less in Windows 7, but often needs the add on to change tabs. In my machine is very flaky indeed.
On Xp the latest update is crashing dropbox when you attempt to open preferences via the add on. It either locks up, or gives the old if you were in the middle of something error, and then one cannot use dropbox unless you restart it

I think someone needs to have a word with dropbox, as anything that is flakey needs to be sorted before we go and try to get it to work with nvda.

I did attempt on an xp machine, to update an older version to the new one manually, but it failed with dropbox installer encountered an error and has to stop hit cancel. Then its still the old version.

So far only one xp machine has had its dropbox updated to version 3.
So I do not think nvda is at fault here, as the original ticket said, it needs an external fix for the preferences to work reliably on any version of windows with a screenreader.

In Dropbox 29.4.20 the tab controls are operable, but NVDA doesn't follow the focus when it moves onto the tabs bar.

I did some brief investigation. Dropbox doesn't fire a focus event (or any other event for that matter) on the tab control when it gains focus; e.g. when you tab to it. However, it does fire a stateChange event on the control that just lost focus. Also, activeChild on the dialog does return the tab control. So, it should be possible to come up with an app module that works around this. Of course, it'd be better to get this addressed in Dropbox and/or Qt5.

P3 because Dropbox is quite commonly used. There is a workaround (press left/right arrow once you tab and get nothing), but this is very hard to discover.

This issue is fixed in Dropbox 73.4.118. Closing as works for me. If you are still seeing this issue in Dropbox 73.4.118 or newer versions, please comment on this to reopen the discussion or create a new issue accordingly. Thanks.