Bug 505568

Summary:	When screen reader is on, "Toggle Screen Reader On and Off" shortcut turns it off, but then right back on again
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	kcm_accessibility	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	cwo.kde, duha.bugs, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	accessibility
Version First Reported In:	6.4.80
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/147269344de3c41b6647b06d8b6d885021c030f9	Version Fixed In:	6.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Nate Graham 2025-06-13 14:29:41 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Press Meta+Alt+S to turn the screen reader on
2. Let it read some things
3. Press Meta+Alt+S again to turn the screen reader off


OBSERVED RESULT
Screen reader says "Screen reader off", then says "Screen reader on" immediately after that, and then continues to read things.


EXPECTED RESULT
Screen reader says "Screen reader off" and stays off.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Git master everything on top of Fedora 42 KDE with Qt 6.9.0


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The checkbox in the KCM changes state appropriately when I use this keyboard shortcut, but it's Orca itself that doesn't match it, as it seems to turn itself back on immediately.

I can *actually* turn it off by making the checkbox in the KCM get into a checked state, and then uncheck it and press Apply.

Comment 1 cwo 2025-06-13 14:36:45 UTC

I can confirm this, it happens to me regularly - but apparently not always. I do suspect that the kcm may be involved somehow; if I haven't touched that it seems to happen less often.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-21 22:06:40 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3194

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-25 07:15:02 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3208

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-09-25 14:32:08 UTC

Git commit eccd6115726ce8dc478c694c8cfb1542eaae828c by Nate Graham, on behalf of Sebastian Sauer.
Committed on 25/09/2025 at 14:32.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

kaccess: Fix screen reader sometimes not being able to be toggled off anymore

KAccessApp::readSettings() is called everytime a setting in the kcms/access
was changed and ok/apply of the kcms/access pressed.

Since we did re-setup the GlobalShortcut and connect the QAction::triggered
signal of the "Toggle Screen Reader On and Off" toggleScreenReaderAction
QAction in KAccessApp::readSettings() we then ended to receive >=2 times a
toggleScreenReaderAction's QAction::triggered signal when pressing 1 time the
META+ALT+S global shortcut after using kcms/access.

Result of that was that after using the kcms/access, it was not possible to
turn of the Orca Screen Reader anymore using the META+ALT+S global shortcut.
FIXED-IN: 6.5.0

M  +6    -6    kaccess/kaccess.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/eccd6115726ce8dc478c694c8cfb1542eaae828c

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-09-25 16:39:28 UTC

Git commit 147269344de3c41b6647b06d8b6d885021c030f9 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 25/09/2025 at 15:37.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.5'.

kaccess: Fix screen reader sometimes not being able to be toggled off anymore

KAccessApp::readSettings() is called everytime a setting in the kcms/access
was changed and ok/apply of the kcms/access pressed.

Since we did re-setup the GlobalShortcut and connect the QAction::triggered
signal of the "Toggle Screen Reader On and Off" toggleScreenReaderAction
QAction in KAccessApp::readSettings() we then ended to receive >=2 times a
toggleScreenReaderAction's QAction::triggered signal when pressing 1 time the
META+ALT+S global shortcut after using kcms/access.

Result of that was that after using the kcms/access, it was not possible to
turn of the Orca Screen Reader anymore using the META+ALT+S global shortcut.
FIXED-IN: 6.5.0


(cherry picked from commit eccd6115726ce8dc478c694c8cfb1542eaae828c)

58b84261 kaccess: Fix sometimes screen reader cannot be toggled off anymore

Co-authored-by: Sebastian Sauer <dipesh@gmx.de>

M  +6    -6    kaccess/kaccess.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/147269344de3c41b6647b06d8b6d885021c030f9