External Bugs

This page lists bugs, enhancements or tasks regarding external packages that were filed by NVDA developers or are of interest for NVDA.

IAccessible2

  • LFBug:125: IA2 proxy DLL and the USB key fob problem
  • LFBug:152: IAccessibleText::caretOffset should give -1 when no caret is available

Mozilla

core

  • MozillaBug:451376: IAccessibleText::attributes provides wrong info after mis-spelled word.
  • MozillaBug:414491: Too many accessible events when typing in Firefox3 location bar
  • MozillaBug:414721: state change to denote deselection of list items gets fired after user requests focus change but before focus change event gets fired
  • MozillaBug:423409: All user interaction script events should be exposed as accessible actions
  • MozillaBug:429030: Crashes in nsAccessibleWrap::accNavigate
  • MozillaBug:360510: checkbox table cells in subscribe dialog do not provide checked/unchecked state
  • MozillaBug:431659: Browse button in "Choose Helper Application" dialog cannot be activated via the keyboard
  • MozillaBug:420845: Fire event_reorder on any embedded frames/iframes whos document has just loaded
  • MozillaBug:433418: Accessibles for focused HTML Select elements are not getting focused state
  • MozillaBug:439205: IAccessible2 role exposed as IA2_ROLE_UNKNOWN for child elements in lists styled as tables
  • MozillaBug:414302: Incorrect selection events in HTML, XUL and ARIA (originally filed because of XUL tabs)
  • MozillaBug:444067: MSAA: AccessibleObjectFromEvent? returning the wrong object when used out-of-process for focus after Bookmarks/History sidebar is enabled
  • MozillaBug:448744: IAccessibleText::caretOffset should return -1 if the system caret is not currently with in that particular object.
  • MozillaBug:452767: Do not include editable nodes when gathering text from children for the parent's accessible name
  • MozillaBug:466772: No events fired on a combo box when it is closed

Firefox

  • MozillaBug:415059: performance issues when focused on keyword bookmark for rfc.net search field
  • MozillaBug:447580: New Control+Tab switcher does not fire an accessible event when switching between pages, only initial alert gets fired for ATs
  • MozillaBug:470158: Alert accessible event should not be fired for bookmark page dialog

Thunderbird

  • MozillaBug:339227: Moving entries between address books using the keyboard (cut/copy/paste cards)
  • MozillaBug:467880: "New Version" page has incorrect accessible role on body node

µTorrent

Notepad++

  • Bug 2074610: accessibility: Cannot tab to controls in Preferences dialog

VirtualBox

  • #629: the virtualbox GUI isn't accessible to those using screen readers

wxWidgets/wxPython

  • #10052: bogus timer id assertion in wxTimerProc if timer stopped when it is about to fire
  • #10065: gdiplus.dll installed into wrong destination directory