Re: Accessibility

Neil,

I use a user strip to insert a selected line from a saved file (a different 
file for each file extension). The combo box does get cursor control and 
Alt Down will activate the drop down portion. I'm not a programmer so I 
don't know if these controls will be read by Mike's screen reader.

It would not be difficult to use Lua to process the contents of the current 
buffer into a list of unique words for selection from a user strip.

Happy to help if required.

Kind Regards Gavin Holt 

Links:

https://www.scintilla.org/SciTELua.html  - Search for "user interface" 
sorry there is key information as an example in a picture (
https://scintilla.org/UserStrip.png).

https://groups.google.com/g/scite-interest/c/QsQ6bzLLFK4/m/Kyvn47iANSIJ  
This is a similar description from Scite Interest - Neil may find a better 
textual description of user strips.


On Thursday, 9 December 2021 at 23:10:37 UTC Neil Hodgson wrote:

>    Mike Ray:
>
> If I can do that, I might be able to identify the window ID of that pop-up 
> list and get NVDA to be able to "see" the entries on the list.
>
>
>    That is unlikely to work. On Windows, Scintilla uses the listbox 
> control which is very simple with just a single column. Since 
> autocompletion lists may contain icons, not just text, they are “owner 
> drawn”. The data stored in the list box control are not strings but integer 
> “item ID” items. The text and icons are hidden within Scintilla and indexed 
> by the item ID. The screen reader would probably only be able to say 
> something like “item 1”. Scintilla doesn’t provide an API to retrieve the 
> text of items.
>
>    Neil
>
>

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