RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu Bar

Many thanks, Stuart. No worries and Thank you so much for your service.

David Goldfield,
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-----Original Message-----
From: V Stuart Foote <vsfoote@libreoffice.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 3:45 PM
To: 'LibreOffice Accessibility Group' <accessibility@global.libreoffice.org>
Cc: David Goldfield <dgoldfield1211@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for
Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu
Bar

David, *

I have to apologize for the noise.

I've misremembered the progression.

At 5.1 for bug tdf#92630 and handling on GTK3 we'd tweaked the mbEnableAccel
and mbAutoAccel to be consistent cross platform.
Which for Windows eliminated the <Alt> key focus onto main menu 'File' 
with opening of that menu. See won't fix bug tdf#124048

Instead <Alt> was behaving like <F10> and would only focus to the main menu
default of 'File', without opening it. Requiring a cursor key between menus,
or one of the main menu mnemonics, was now needed.  <F10> and <Alt> behaved
the same entered from document canvas.

Meaning the <Alt> should toggle to the main menu, and *confirming your
observation* of an issue at 24.2.1.2 release.

However, at 24.8 for bug tdf#54169 we've cleaned up the UI response to <Alt>
and to follow the SPI_GETKEYBOARDCUES read from MS Windows 'Ease of Access
center' action "Underline access keys when available" or from
Win11 accessibility settings "Underline access keys".  And with that the
<Alt> focus again matches the <F10> focus.

Will open a Bugzilla issue against 24.2.1

Stuart


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