Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 72162
[A11y] Control-Shift-Left/Right can select whitespace.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:43:03 UTC
This is entered in the SOffice bug database as: https://so-web.germany.sun.com/iBIS/servlet/edit.TaskFormServlet?tid=137415 We're finding that database difficult to access and use, so we're 'moving' the bug here since it also applies to OOo. If I recall correctly (I can't get to the bug report), the main problem is that Ctrl+Shift+{Left,Right} are meant for selecting words, but they can also end up selecting just whitespace.
Description from Bugtracker: In Writer, create a small document with the following four lines: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Position the text caret to the left of the "T" on the first line. Use Control-Shift-Right to select by word. Repeat. You will see that it selects "The" and the "quick" correctly, but the next Control-Shift-Right selects from after the "k" to the end of the line and the next one selects the whitespace before "brown". Using the GNOME application gedit, Control-Shift-Right would just select "The" then "quick" then "brown". ES: I don't see any A11y issue here. Maybe a usability issue or a difference in behavior between Gedit (which is not a word processor) and the Writer. Please comment.
This is definitely right near the bottom of all of our concerns for a11y to OOo. The main problem is that it is fundamentally inconsistent with the way word-by-word selection is done elsewhere on the platform (e.g., GTK+), thus requiring us to script for this anomally in Orca. We'd of course like to see consistent behavior across toolkits, which is why we logged this. I guess I'd agree that the 'accessibility' keyword can be removed.
So, requlifying to ENHANCEMENT. Reassigned to Requirements
MD: Within the Office Help I can read "Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Right -> Selecting to the right word by word". So we have a bug in the implementation or within the Online Help. Additional I compared the behavior to MS Office Word. They do it the way it's described in our Online Help. Since Word, Mozilla, Gedit, etc. do it the way we describe it in the Online Help and the current behavior of Writer feels broken do myself, too. I set the issue type back to "defect" and adjust the target to "3.0". MD: As discussed set owner to "ama".
You forgot to change the target :-) I think changing the selection as requested will not lose anything important, selecting the whole line can be done differently.
Set target: OOo3.x
3.x still was not set - now I did it. ;-)
I think I will fix this problem for OOo3.0 already.
Fixed in CWS sw30bf06 wrtsh4.cxx
Ready for QA.
Verified in cws sw30bf06
Verified in OOo 3.0 - closing - Sophie