Bug 506506

Summary: The orca screen reader should read KRunner, search actionable item
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: Arkadiusz Ryszard Świętnicki <nuno69a>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: alexander.lohnau, kde, kdedev, natalie_clarius
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arkadiusz Ryszard Świętnicki 2025-07-02 21:28:18 UTC 
Currently when using KRunner or the kDE's search facilities the Orca user is not informed of the result which will be invoked by pressing the Enter key. Given the example
1. Press META key
2. Type "Fire" to start matching Firefox
3. Press Enter

A sighted user knows right away what they are activating because the item is highlighted.
As it currently stands a blind user needs to press the Down arrow once so that Orca focuses the list of results, thus reading the focused item which adds unnecessary friction for cannonicaly rapid task which is keyboard-based workflow of KRunner and the like.
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-07-11 19:49:21 UTC 
Moving to krunner