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Re: [orca-list] Fwd: Calc - Selecting items in a dropdown

Yes, you're right. I could not get the drop down list to speak. I opened your sample spreadsheet and choose the cell with Rita's name in it. I then pressed the application key to open the context menu; there was an item in the menu called "Selection list..." Alas when I opened that menu item, Orca was completely silent. Next time I have a chance to mess with Accerciser, I might try and see if any worth-while events are being exposed. I may also hook up a higher debug level in Orca to see if anything comes up there. I'm willing to bet that OOo Calc is not exposing some information that the a11y infrastructure needs to see in order for Orca to do this task properly. 

Sorry I don't have any better ideas than this right now.

On 02/15/2011 06:17 PM, Luciano de Souza wrote:

Few days ago, I sent this message. I came back from a triep. Therefore,
I can't have read the reply for this message. It's also possible my
question doesn't have a reply.

What I really want is to be able to select a value in the dropdown
placed on the cells. Does someone imagine a manner to do it?

Regards,

Luciano de Souza


-------- Mensagem original --------
Assunto:        Calc - Selecting items in a dropdown
Data:   Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:21:25 -0200
De:     Luciano de Souza <luchyanus gmail com>
Para:   orca-list gnome org



Hi all,

      At the workplace, I use Microsoft Excel and JAWS. At home, I use
Calc and Orca. It's important for me the same features are available
independent on the operational system or the screen reader. Since I can
save my files in Excel format, it seemed too simply to do what I do.
However, I found a difficult. In Calc, with Orca, I was not able to
select items in a dropdown placed over the cells.

Attached to this message, you can find a sheet of example. Imagine you
are the boss and wish control the tasks assigned to your team. The table
in plan1 does exactly it. It's enough to fill date, task, responsible,
area and the status.

But it's necessary to constrain the values typed on the cells. My boss
loves the autofilter. If anyone types values out of the standard, the
autofilter can't be used. If someone types "John" and another one types
"John Stuart", in spite of the fact they are the same people, Calc will
understand that they are different values, difficulting the filtering.

To solve this problem, in our sheets, it's common to implement
validation. For example, if I know the names of people who can receive
tasks, we create a validity rule. At menu Data, we can select the option
"validity" and, in the tab criteria, we can define the limited list
among which a value will be selected. Over the cell, a dropdown is
placed. With mouse or keybord, we can select one of the values and if we
type a value out of the list, a error message is shown. It's really a
wonderful feature.

The problem is: having created the dropdown, when I move the cursor into
a cell, Orca doesn't say anything about the presence of a dropdown. But
even if I know a dropdown exists, I could not select items directly.
It's necessary to call the context menu and select the option regarding
the selection of items in a dropdown. But even using this method, I can
control the selection of items. After pressing enter on this option, a
list is opend, but Orca doesn't say anything. If I use the arrows and
press enter, probabily I will assign a value to that cell, but it's not
possible to predict which value will be selected.

Using JAWS, I can easily select the items. When I enter in the cell,
JAWS says "dropdown". So I know there is a dropdown over this cell. I
press ctrl+downarrow and with up and down arrow, I can select the items.
It would be wonderful if Orca behaves like that.

There are dropdowns in cells of responsible, area and status columns. In
date column, there is also a validation. Dates before 01/01/2011 is not
allowed, but in this case, their there is no dropdowns.

In the attached document, I filled values in two rows as a example. But,
since I could not select values in the dropdown, I typed the values that
I previously knew. Would someone know how to fill more rows selecting
responsibles, areas and status in the dropdown? Can Orca announce the
presence of dropdowns in a cell? What do you suggest?

Regards,

Luciano de Souza




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