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Trill line not read by screen reader
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Description
Issue type
Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)
Description with steps to reproduce
STEPS:
- Add a trill line to a note from the ornament palette.
- Arrow across the note and notice it reads correctly with the screen reader.
- Use Alt arrow to move on to the trill line itself and the screen reader says something like "next element" which seems to be the current default when it can't give a name, previously it said blank, other QT versions it said nothing and at one stage said dummy panel on unlabelled elements.
Currently the trill line is also not showing in Braille. Most other ornaments are, so maybe it needs this labelled first?
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.7.4
Regression
I was unable to check
Operating system
Windows 11 with NVDA
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