This has been changed:

• A progress/busy indicator page is now shown while smartcards are loaded (unless there are already smartcards shown; in this case the update happens "in the background"). Screen readers speak the progress message.
• The texts on the placeholder page (that is shown if no smartcards were found) are now accessible (if AT is active), i.e. one can reach them with Tab and initially the first text has keyboard focus (so that it's spoken).
• When a smartcard is found then the first smartcard tab has keyboard focus.

This is fixed.

Backported for VSD 3.4.

Fixed (as far as possible).

This needs to be fixed in Kleopatra because we create our own config dialog using a generic page dialog.

The second problem with the wrong tab order is also fixed.

Removing VSD 3.4 tag. I don't intend to backport the changes in Qt 6 to Qt 5.

In T7588#207022, @timegrid wrote:

• unselected radio/checkboxes are a bit hard to see and worse to distinguish

In T7588#207022, @timegrid wrote:

• calendar (weekend days: general/selected/hover on dark background)

An new suggestion for the wording without prior reading of the above texts to get a fresh view.
But in German ...

For the open issue I have created T7890: Kleopatra: Icon sidebar in configuration dialog is missing an accessible name because it needs to be fixed upstream (in KDE Frameworks).

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta395 @ win11

Looks mostly good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta395 @ win11.

nvda speech viewer output:

Related Addresses  tab control
Related Addresses  tab  Alt+  R
Related addresses  list
edward.tester@demo.gnupg.com  not selected

speech viewer:

Search missing keys when verifying a signature  check box  not checked  Alt+  S
X.509 Directory Services  grouping
Directory services  list  This is a list of all directory services that are configured for use with X.509.

Sounds good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta395 @ win11

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta395 @ win11

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta395 @ win11

Tested on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta395 @ win10/win11

Fixed and backported for VSD 3.4

Fixed for VSD 3.4

Fixed and backported for VSD 3.4

Backported for VSD 3.4

Backported for VSD 3.4

Backported for VSD 3.4

Fixed. When one of the lists/tables gets focus then NVDA should speak something like "<name of list> list" or "<name of table> tree view".

We discussed this and decided that this would not be useful, as

If a high-contrast mode is enabled then Gpg4win 4.4 (and VSD 3.4) will use the Fusion style which works much better with high contrast than the Windows XP/Vista style with animations that was used previously.

I had a look at Qt 5. All of Qt's Windows styles are broken with regards to button or menu item styling. They change the background color of the hovered and/or selected button, but they use the default foreground color of the common base style class for the text. I don't think that fixing the (obsolete) Windows styles is worth the effort. As workaround we should use the Fusion style if high-contrast is active.

In T6117#205379, @ikloecker wrote:

I guess this is a typo because the CSR looks like an encryption-only certificate.

Upstream MR: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/676173

I found and fixed a bug (likely a regression in the new code): When CN_prefill or EMAIL_prefill is configured as true and no fixed CN or EMAIL is configured then Kleopatra should prefill Name and Email with values taken from CONFIGDIR/emaildefaults (used by KDE apps on Linux), from the Windows user or from the EMAIL environment variable. This didn't work anymore.

In T6117#205277, @timegrid wrote:

Notes (probably as intended):

• [$i]mmutable does not work for CN or EMAIL

In T6117#205277, @timegrid wrote:

• All fields (signing only, rsa4096)

Certificate Request:

[...]

X509v3 Key Usage: critical
    Key Encipherment, Data Encipherment

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta369 @ win10

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta369 @ win10:

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta369 @ win10:

Notepad  window
Text to process  edit  Either enter a text you want to sign or encrypt, or an encrypted or signed text you want to decrypt or verify. You can also enter certificates in text form to import them.  blank
t
e
s
t
Signing and encrypting notepad...
Successfully encrypted and signed the notepad

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta369 @ win10

Looks good to me on gpg4win-5.0.0-beta369 @ win10 (no lines omitted or duplicate readings):

pinentry-qt  dialog  Enter passphrase
Passphrase:  edit  protected  blank
[...]
does not match - try again  dialog
OK  button  Enter

Notes for testing (and maybe documentation update):

• A few features (?) of the old CSR creation have been removed:
  • The different choices offered after CSR creation (e.g. save to file, send to CA, create signing/encryption CSR with same settings, etc.) have been removed; now a file save dialog pops up when the CSR has been generated
  • Custom labels for the RSA key sizes ([CertificateCreationWizard]RSAKeySizeLabels); we use GnuPG's algorithm IDs as labels (items in the drop down box)
  • Custom key type ([CertificateCreationWizard]CMSKeyType); CSR creation supported (and still supports) only RSA as "key type"; by marking the config key as immutable one could force the creation of signing+encryption CSRs which makes little sense for S/MIME and might have been "copied" from OpenPGP key creation where forcing the generation of keys for signing & encryption does make some sense.
  • Specification of the CA's email address ([CertificateCreationWizard]CAEmailAddress); the generated CSRs are now always written to disk; the users will have to create an email themselves