the dialog that is displayed after checking for updates fails to respect Orca's silence speech feature

[ajborka]

In vscode insiders 1.44, the dialog that is displayed after checking for updates fails to respect Orca's silence speech feature. This makes navigating the dialog difficult at best.

1. Start Orca
2. Start vscode insiders.
3. In the manage toolbar of the main window, press the manage button
4. From the popup menu, choose 'check for updates...'

Actual results: Orca reads the entire contents of the dialog even if the user presses the ctrl key to silence speech. Any actions taken while Orca reads the dialog contents are not spoken until Orca finishes the previous block of text.
Expected result: Interupting Orca's speech should stop Orca from reading the remaining contents of the dialog.

[vscodebot]

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Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Orca not reading languages list (#92324)
• Orca fails to reliably speak the settings tree (#92488)
• Accessibility: menu toggle actions are not accessible with orca (#91642)
• Test: VS Code with Orca screen reader (#91063)

[isidorn]

@ajborka is the dialog you are getting "There are currently no updates available"? Can you also reproduce if you do Help > about vs code?
Because I can.

And this smells like we use aria.alert for dialogs and it feels like the Orca ctrl does not silence alerts. @joanmarie is Orca slience designed in such a way?

@deepak1556 also assinging also to you since this is a native dialog and might be somewhat connected to, since if we had nice reading of dialog content we would not have to use alerts
electron/electron#14234

[ajborka]

@isidorn yes, it happens when getting the no updates available dialog, the help>about dialog, and I suspect the open/save/save as... dialogs might have the same problem, although the lag isn't as bad. Do you want different issues for the open/save/save as.../the 'do you want to save?' dialogs? because they all produce the same problem to some degree.

[joanmarie]

Lemme take a look.

[joanmarie]

Ok, that's this issue https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1042864

Orca interrupts speech when keys are pressed; not just Ctrl. So you can also see Orca failing to shut up in the About dialog for VSCode as you Tab between its buttons.

The way Orca does this speech interruption is by getting a notification that a key was pressed and then doing the interruption. If Orca isn't told the user pressed a key, it doesn't know it needs to shut up. Sorry! Hopefully one of my colleagues will fix that Chromium issue soon.

[isidorn]

@joanmarie Thanks a lot for linking to the chromum issue.