[Bug] text cannot be read by Screen Reader when updating document

[yanshudan]

Let's make sure issue is not already fixed in latest builds first.

• I verified I can reproduce this issue against latest Integration Build of Eclipse SDK

Steps to reproduce

From a fresh installation and clean workspace:

Create a blank Eclipse plugin project
Install Screen Reader NVDA

I tried

try to call IDocumnent.replace() to add some text to a document

I expected: the added text should be announced by NVDA

But got: Nothing announeced by Screen Reader

Here is some relevant log output

Tested under this environment:

• OS & version: Win11
• Eclipse IDE/Platform version 2024-09
• ...Anything else that can be useful...

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[mickaelistria]

The Eclipse Document layer is a bit too high to evaluate that. Can you please try with to derive an example using StyledText.setText() and showcasing a similar error from one of the examples in eclipse.platform.swt/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets ?

[yanshudan]

I have tried calling StyledText.setText(msg), screen reader cannot announce the content of msg.

[yanshudan]

I've also tried these. All cannot be announced b y Screen Reader.

      styledText.insert();
      styledText.append();
      styledText.replaceTextRange();

[yanshudan]

Hi @mickaelistria , do I have to showcase the error in eclipse.platform.swt/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets? I guess things are the same as long as I call the same API.

[akurtakov]

@yanshudan Is the issue actually reproducible with some of the snippets? The smaller(less libraries/jars involved) the reproducer the easier it is to investigate an issue.

[mickaelistria]

Thanks for the details. One thing I sincerely don't know is whether it's expected that each change coming from API gets announced. I don't really know how other frameworks deal with it. As you can imagine, there are ton of API calls that alterate the UI, and we cannot get all of them read as they're being processed. So how to choose?
Or maybe the change is announced only if widget has focus?