How to stop screen reader(Narrator) from reading password field in QML

Ajay Krishna · 5 Feb 2020, 16:05

Hi I have developed a QML app for windows 10 where windows narrator can reads contents of my app (Screen). Now i want narrator not to read text i am entering in password field . can someone help in managing this ?

I have tried same with QLinedit where if i set lineedit to password mode and start typing narrators says hidden and whereas in case of TextInput it reads the keys i type even i set it to echoMode: TextInput.Password .

TextInput{
width: 240
text: ""
font.family: "Helvetica"
font.pointSize: 20
color: "blue"
focus: true
Accessible.name: ""
Accessible.description: ""
Accessible.passwordEdit: true
Accessible.ignored: true

echoMode: TextInput.Password
}

ODБOï · wrote on 5 Feb 2020, 16:05

@Ajay-Krishna hi
i have never used it, but maybe you can set Accessible.ignored: true on your password field ?

J.Hilk · 2 May 2020, 16:09

@Ajay-Krishna
what do you use as input field?
TextInput for example has an echo mode property that, when set (TextInput.Password ) should not allow the screenreader to read the content

Ajay Krishna · 5 Feb 2020, 17:06

Hi @J-Hilk and @LeLev I tried this example its not working . Screen reader still spells the text I type

TextInput{
width: 240
text: ""
font.family: "Helvetica"
font.pointSize: 20
color: "blue"
focus: true
Accessible.name: ""
Accessible.description: ""
Accessible.passwordEdit: true
Accessible.ignored: true

        echoMode: TextInput.Password 
    }

ODБOï · 2 May 2020, 17:07

@Ajay-Krishna there is also a bool property called passwordEdit , try set it to true
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-accessible.html#passwordEdit-prop

Ajay Krishna · 21 Feb 2020, 08:32

@LeLev i have tried with password edit too . It is not showing any difference in behaviour .

aha_1980 · 21 Feb 2020, 10:05

@Ajay-Krishna which Qt version do you use?

Ajay Krishna · 21 Feb 2020, 10:15

@aha_1980 Qt 5.12 x

J.Hilk · 21 Feb 2020, 12:51

@Ajay-Krishna
you answered 1/2 of the question, what -bug fix- patch version of Qt 5.12

May be important, if we talk about a potential bug in Qt 🤷‍♂️

Ajay Krishna · J J.Hilk 21 Feb 2020, 10:15

@J-Hilk said in How to stop screen reader(Narrator) from reading password field in QML:

what -bug fix- patch version of Qt 5.12

QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 5.12.0

Is there anything i want to check ?

dheerendra · wrote on 24 Feb 2020, 12:54

It is bug in Qt. Please look at the bug

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-82433