Speech viewer no longer has a shortcut key in the tools menu in 2023.2

[Qchristensen]

Steps to reproduce:

With NVDA 2023.2 installed:

• Press NVDA+n, then t to open the tools menu.
• Arrow through the options and note the keys associated with each.
• Press S (the key used to open this feature in 2023.1).

Actual behavior:

Speech viewer no longer has an associated key, and S now opens the add-on store ("A" opened the add-on manager in 2023.1).

Expected behavior:

There should be a shortcut key to toggle speech viewer.

It may be worth considering making "A" the key for add-on manager and leaving S for speech viewer (S still works in temporary copies so the shortcut hasn't been removed, it has just been overridden by the add-on store).

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

NVDA version:

2023.2 installed

Windows version:

Windows 11 (64-bit) Version: 22H2, Build: 22621.2134 (although this is likely irrelevant).

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

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

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

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

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

[jcsteh]

My guess is that this was never defined with an access key (&S). When there was no other item with that access key, that was fine; Windows chose S as the first letter. Now that we do have something with that access key (Add-on store), that clobbered the (non-explicit) Speech viewer access key.

As a matter of interest, why did we choose s for Add-on store instead of a (as was previously the case before the store)?

[Brian1Gaff]

Yes that does seem a trifle odd, as the average user is more likely to need the add on store than the speech viewer, it would have made more sense to use A as before for add ons. Unless of course somebody merely hit s instead of a as they are next to each other on the keyboard. Brian

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[seanbudd]

As a matter of interest, why did we choose s for Add-on store instead of a (as was previously the case before the store)?

For a certain period of development, both the manager and the store was available. This was an artifact that got mistakenly retained.

I think we can reassign it to a and make the speech viewer key explicit as well