LibreOffice Writer: Statusline is not announced

[peterpacult]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Writer
2. Request announcement of status line with screenreader

Actual behavior:

The screenreader announces "No informatiion in status line".

Expected behavior:

status line is announced

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

installed

NVDA version:

2020.2

Windows version:

Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 1909
Operating system build 18363.1016

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

LibreOffice
Version: 7.0.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 8061b3e9204bef6b321a21033174034a5e2ea88e
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI-Render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded

Other information about your system:

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Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes.

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

No.

If addons are disabled, is your problem still occuring?

Not tested.

Did you try to run the COM registry fixing tool in NVDA menu / tools?

Not tested.

[peterpacult]

The issue has also been reported to the Document Foundation; see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137075

[Natomaspiper]

The problem now occurs in LibreOffice 7.5.3 on Windows 11 home system using NVDA 2023.1. the Windows restart, run NVDA com registration fixing tool, and start NVDA without add-ons were done and the problem was not fixed.

[XLTechie]

@michaelweghorn would you be able to lend a prospective on this?

[michaelweghorn]

@michaelweghorn would you be able to lend a prospective on this?

@XLTechie : Yes, pull request: #14933

[Natomaspiper]

Since I did not get a clarifying message, I will restate my observations.  I did some more testing with both NVDA and MS Narrator screen readers using the LibreOffice provided download for 7.5.3.2 SDK.  As a non developer, I am slightly concerned that when using search engines all results direct everyone to a developers version instead of an end user version.  Both screen readers did not "see" any control to add a LibreOffice desktop shortcut. In version 7.5.3.2, I was unable to find any obviously named executable in the program files folder so  I cannot recreate the problem that I originally reported.  The problem is now even worse as I cannot even start LibreOffice or any of its components.  On the assumption that the previous version that I tried was 7.5.2.X, please advise me on how to get the earlier version so I can test with it.

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[michaelweghorn]

@Natomaspiper If I understand correctly, this is about a checkbox in the LibreOffice installer not being exposed by the screenreader, which is unrelated to the issue described here.

Let's please keep that separate from the issue here to keep focus, s.a. my comment in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137075#c9 .