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OS: Chrome
Pri: 1
Type: Bug
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ChromeVox should honor system keys

Project Member Reported by sky@chromium.org, Mar 14 2018

Issue description

ChromeVox provides various accelerators. AFAICT these accelerators *never* honor the system keys. If I've remapped search to some other key, I would expect that to impact ChromeVox. This is especially important when running a ChromeOS build on the desktop as to test these keys requires unbinding a bunch of keys used by the desktop window manager. Ugh!
 
Owner: lpalmaro@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
lpalmaro@ please triage

Comment 2 by msw@chromium.org, Apr 3 2018

For reference: I wanted to test ChromeVox on a linux desktop chromeos=1 dev build
In order to do this on gLinux Debian rodete w. Cinamon v 3.4.6, I had to:
1) System Settings -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> Options... -> Alt/Win key behavior -> "Hyper is mapped to Win keys"
2) Remove *all* System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts Keyboard bindings that reference "Super"

It would be nice to document these steps somewhere, perhaps here:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkcr/docs/accessibility/chromevox_on_desktop_linux.md

It would be even nicer if we somehow made this easier for chrome devs to setup/test.
(why doesn't remapping eg. Caps Lock to Search in chrome://settings/keyboard-overlay work?)
Components: UI>Accessibility>ChromeVox
Labels: -Pri-3 Pri-1
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Status: Available (was: Assigned)
FWIW, I think this entails having EventRewriterController/EventRewriterChromeOS be added as event rewriters before the accessibility event rewriters.
Hopefully that would be straightforward and not break and a11y features.

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