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Tooltips in Firefox and Thunderbird are not read by NVDA #3313
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This str is almost complete, it would help if we'd know what GUI elements have a tool tip though :) |
For both firefox and Thunderbird: Example of GUI elements that have tooltips are the buttons in the toolbar(s). There might be other elements in the GUI that have tooltips. Should I look for them? |
P3 because most users don't seem to need the tool tips; I certainly can't recall many questions about this. Technical: Our support for tool tips is currently very specific: tooltips_class32 with role tooltip, which means we only support standard system tool tips. In theory (but completely untested), we should just be able to map the appropriate Mozilla window class to the ToolTip behaviour. This should probably be done in Having said that, @michaelDCurran, any reason we're so restrictive about the tooltip role? Why not just map the tooltip role to the tooltip behaviour for IAccessible? |
@jcsteh does Firefox actually still display tooltips by itself? I thought at least for Windows 10 they are now displayed in the notification center which in turn is being reported by NVDA. Or am I wrong? |
You're conflating tool tips and notifications. Firefox notifications get displayed in the Widows Action Center. However, tool tips (which appear when you hover over something with the mouse) are still displayed as they were before. |
Reported by k_kolev1985 on 2013-06-30 09:32
Even though the option to report tooltips is checked in NVDA's options, in "Object presentation", NVDA does not read tooltips in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Steps to reproduce it:
Expected result: NVDA should read the tooltip witch pops up.
Actual result: NVDA not only does not read the tooltip, but doesn't even announce that a tooltip has popped up.
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