Labels of buttons in webpages in Internet Explorer are not announced by NVDA's mouse tracking

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Reported by k_kolev1985 on 2014-06-04 14:35
In Internet Explorer (version 11.0 at present, but it happened in older versions as well), labels of buttons are not reported by NVDA's mouse tracking functionality, when the user points the mouse cursor over them.

Steps to reproduce it:

1. Enable NVDA's mouse tracking, if it is not already enabled.
2. Open Internet Explorer and go to a webpage containing buttons. The "New Ticket..." page in the NVDA Community site will do the job.
3. Move the mouse cursor over a button on the page. The "Preview" button should do the job.

'''Actual results:''' NVDA does not read the label of the button.

'''Expected results:''' NVDA should read the label of the button.

'''NOTES:'''

1. This behavior may occur for other objects in the webpages in Internet Explorer, for example the links for text formating over the "Description" field on the "New..." page on this site and probably others as well.
2. This does not occur in Mozilla Firefox. Can't tell about Chrome, since I don't use it.

Test environment:

• Operating system: Windows 8.1 Pro N, 64-bit.
• Browser: Internet Explorer 11.00.9600.16384.
• NVDA versions: next-10671,9735db1; 2014.2 (and probably older versions as well).

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Comment 1 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2014-10-23 05:16
In [a6bf196]:

MSHTML NVDAObject's basicText property, if HTMLNode.innerText is empty, fall back to the default NVDAObject basicText implementation. This allows mouse tracking to pick up reasonable labels for non-container elements (such as buttons). Re #4173

Eventually we want to consider a better iimplementation that may use screenExplorer, but this solves this issue at least.

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Comment 2 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2014-10-23 05:17
In [3386b63]:

Merge branch 't4173' into next. Incubates #4173

Changes:
Added labels: incubating

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Comment 3 by k_kolev1985 on 2014-10-23 15:38
Yes, this seams to be fixed with latest "next" snapshot. I don't know if the inaccurate reading with the mouse tracking with a zoom level of the page set to something different than 100% is related to this ticket or to #3494, but now NVDA can read accurately the text on the page with the mouse tracking, even with zoom different from 100%.

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Comment 4 by jteh (in reply to comment 3) on 2014-10-23 21:44
Replying to k_kolev1985:

I don't know if the inaccurate reading with the mouse tracking with a zoom level of the page set to something different than 100% is related to this ticket or to #3494

Yeah, that's #3494.

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Comment 5 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2014-11-09 23:06
In [8a17cef]:

Merge branch 't4173'. Fixes #4173

Changes:
Removed labels: incubating
State: closed

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Comment 6 by mdcurran on 2014-11-09 23:07
Changes:
Milestone changed from None to 2014.4