Comment 1 by mdcurran on 2013-07-01 03:42
technical:
Skype's tooltip window class is TAppToolbarHint
I'm not sure about the other ones.

Comment 2 by jteh on 2013-07-01 03:57
Is there some good reason we don't just match the tooltip role?

Comment 3 by mdcurran (in reply to comment 2) on 2013-07-01 04:28
Replying to jteh:

Is there some good reason we don't just match the tooltip role?

We could, but we also need to let the 'show' event through IAccessibleHandler based on the window class currently. Also don't think that Skype's tooltips have the tooltip role... think they are are client, with one or moe static text children containing the text. So these ones will have to be fudged a bit I think.

Comment 4 by jteh on 2013-07-01 04:39
Ah. I did think of the IAccessibleHandler thing, but when I looked, I couldn't find the code that filters out show events. I've found it now. :) So yeah, this should be done case by case. Sorry for the noise.

@jcsteh From your #3314 (comment), I take it that addressing this issue as a whole is not possible and case-by-case patches will be required. In that case, may we close this ticket and request @k_kolev1985 to file individual tickets for each program separately? If not, am I missing something?

If some or all of these apps do all indeed use a common toolkit, it's possible a single patch might cover multiple apps. We'd need the window class names for tooltips in all affected apps. Unfortunately, this is pretty difficult to get without watching for show events in an event tracing tool like AccEvent or AccProbe.

CC @k_kolev1985 to please keep #3314 (comment) in mind...

cc: @k-kolev1985 I guess this is still reproducible with NVDA 2019.1.1 in most of the applications described above. Is this correct?

@Adriani90 Yes, this is still reproducible at least with Cobian Backup, Balabolka. The mentioned Skype example was before version 8, which was a totally different thing - now the tooltips in Skype 8 are read by NVDA. I don't have a recent version of KMPlayer to test it out on it (I don't use it anymore).

I think this needs to be fixed by the app developer, like it was fixed in Skype 8. I am adding needs external fix here.

Oh wrong button :)

We didn't get any updates if this is still an issue in Balabolka, KMPlayer or similar application. In Skype, most of the tooltips work, but not all of them. This seems an issue which needs to be discussed with the app developers. They have to expose the tooltips or notifications or allerts correctly via UIA or another accessibility API to make it possible for NVDA to access them.

I think NV Access can decide better if this issue still needs to be tracked here or not.

@Adriani90 The tooltips are still not read in Cobian Backup 11 and the latest version of Balabolka.
As I said in my previous comment here - I don't use KMPlayer anymore and therefore can't say about it.
And as we both said previously - now the tooltips in Skype are read (or at least the ones I came across are anyway).