musescore / musescore/MuseScore

[Accessibility] Plugin dialogs are inaccessible in MS4

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Since May 5, 2023.

accessibility community plugins regression MS3 UI
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Description

Issue type

UI bug

Bug description

Keyboard navigation and screen reader accessibility doesn't work in dialogs spawned by plugins.

Steps to reproduce
  1. Enable any plugin with a dialog (e.g. the built-in plugin "Configure Courtesy Accidentals").
  2. Open or create a score (some plugins only work when a score is open).
  3. Go to Plugins > Composing/arranging tools > Configure Courtesy Accidentals.

The plugin dialog will appear but it is not navigable by keyboard or accessible to screen readers.

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MuseScore Version

4.0.2

Regression

Yes, this used to work in MuseScore 3.x and now is broken

Operating system

Windows

Additional context

At past in Musescore 3, as long as a plugin has a dialog, we blind can work in it. But in Musescore 4, it doesn't work at all. Just tried, I can enable and disable plugins in the management panel, but all plugins can't be operated using screen reader. When activating a plugin, Musescore will pop up a window where I can do nothing. Our braille music team is trying to make a plugin to send the Musescore file to braille translation module server to get a perfect braille file, but it seems we can't go any farther at this time.

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