microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Bug Report: ConHost Caption BoundingRects dissapeared

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Area-Accessibility Help Wanted Issue-Bug Priority-2 Product-Conhost
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Description

Environment

Caused by Accessibility PR: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/96496d8154113ae9e0bcbe47b4bbaf33a0d4e961

Steps to reproduce

  1. open ConHost
  2. open inspect.exe
  3. find caption buttons

Expected behavior

bounding rects should appear over caption buttons

Actual behavior

bounding rects aren't there. But it seems like you can interact with them perfectly fine otherwise.

Other notes

I think the main culprit here is WindowUiaProvider. Not entirely sure what caused it though.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Reproduce the issue by opening ConHost and inspect.exe, then locating the caption buttons. Compare the Accessibility PR with WindowUiaProvider to identify why bounding rectangles disappeared; done means inspect.exe shows bounding rectangles while the caption buttons remain usable.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
accessibility, desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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