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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-2673

text selection isn't accessible on the mac

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    • macOS

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      When selecting text, whether in a QLineEdit, QTextEdit, or editable
      QComboBox, when the Mac's accessibility framework VoiceOver is turned
      on, the text should be read outloud. So if the word "foo" was highlighted, it would read "foo highlighted".

      With a Qt application, this doesn't happen. Nothing happens when
      selecting text in Qt.

      This appears to be because in qaccessible_mac.cpp, there isn't support
      for the kAXSelectedTextRangeAttribute and kAXSelectedTextAttribute
      attributes.

      These two attributes are documented as required attributes here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Accessibility/Reference/AccessibilityCarbonRef/Reference/reference.html

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            sorvig Morten Sørvig
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