Well, I hear tooltips sometimes. Certainly  NVDA can beset to read them in
the settings. Since you cannot prove a negative its hard to say without
sighted help but on some things when highlighted by tabbing to them I hear a
description as is supposed to be in the tooltip, on others I do not. Same
with Jaws. Similar issues with windows 7 balloons etc too.


For a definitive answer though you will need somebody who  works with the
nvda code. I have my suspicions that some  objects use   a different method
to generate the tips.

Its a bit like the extra details some folders in explore seem to reveal
making it found like a file name is read twice, the second time with other
data appended.
 Brian

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vlad Dragomir" <vladdragomir1983@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 3:48 PM
Subject: [nvda] Tooltips


> Good afternoon,
>
> Friends, this might seem odd to some and obvious to others, so I feel I
> should apologise in advance for what follows.
>
> I've just learnt about the existance of tooltips. If I understand well,
> they are messages displayed when someone points the mouse at certain
> elements on a web page, without clicking on them. If possible, I would be
> curious to know the folowing:
> 1. How can we know if, and where these tooltips are present? Does NVDA
> anounces them? If so, what does it say?I don't remember hearing such
> information so far, and I've been using it for quite a while.
> 2. How can we read those tooltips, given that we rarely use the mouse? At
> least I never do that, even though I know about mouse simulation; I never
> have the reflex to actually use that function. I am getting old I suppose.
>
> I thank in advance all those who will enlighten me on this topic.
>
> Warm regards from France,
>
> Vlad.
>
>
>