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nvda does not announce the names of the menus when walking with left and right arrows in the itunes #12331

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fernando-jose-silva opened this issue Apr 23, 2021 · 1 comment

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Steps to reproduce:

open itunes.
press alt
walk with arrows to the right and left

Actual behavior:

nvda goes mute

Expected behavior:

nvda should read the names of the menus in focus

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

instaled

NVDA version:

nvda.exe, NVDA alpha-22498,d9afe35d

Windows version:

10 10.0.19043,962

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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 add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

yes

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

yes
log:
itunes.txt

jtflan1 added a commit to jtflan1/nvda that referenced this issue Apr 26, 2021
NVDA does not announce the names of the menus when walking with left and right arrows in iTunes. This can potentially be fixed by adding a class which helps accesses the text inside of an iTunes menu box. The function added below will attempt to provide that functionality. Further additions are above which add an object of this class to the clsList in chooseNVDAObjectOverlayClasses. A comment was not made on the bug report due to the issue unaffecting the user experience in any way and tight scheduling. Considering I have not contributed to NVDA before, this implementation may be going off the rails. However, I think I have provided a decent foundation in solving this issue.
jtflan1 added a commit to jtflan1/nvda that referenced this issue Apr 26, 2021
NVDA does not announce the names of the menus when walking with left and right arrows in iTunes. This can potentially be fixed by adding a class which helps accesses the text inside of an iTunes menu box. The class added will attempt to provide that functionality. Further additions add an object of this class to the clsList in chooseNVDAObjectOverlayClasses. A comment was not made on the bug report due to the issue unaffecting the user experience in any way and tight scheduling.
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Note that iTunes for Windows will probably be discontinued at some point in time in favor of other products such as apple music and apple tv. For Mac, iTunes has been discontinued already in 2019.
Apple provides so far only maintenance updates to iTunes for Windows.
https://www.businessinsider.com/itunes

The Windows version is expected to stay alive for some more time.
https://www.groovypost.com/unplugged/apple-itunes-might-be-on-life-support-but-it-isnt-dead/

This particular issue occurs in other screen readers like Jaws as well, so it needs to be fixed by Apple. However, I don't expect further accessibility updates to iTunes unless screen reader users try to push it at Apple.

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