Don't announce 'selected' when the focus moves in Google sheets if the focused cell is the only cell selected

source/NVDAObjects/IAccessible/__init__.py

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 #This file is covered by the GNU General Public License.
 #See the file COPYING for more details.
 
+from comtypes.automation import IEnumVARIANT, VARIANT
 from comtypes import COMError, IServiceProvider, GUID
+from comtypes.hresult import S_OK
 import ctypes
 import os
 import re
@@ -1214,6 +1216,38 @@ def _get_rowHeaderText(self):
 	def _get_columnHeaderText(self):
 		return self._tableHeaderTextHelper("column")
 
+	def _get_selectionContainer(self):
+		if self.table:
+			return self.table
+
+	def getSelectedItemsCount(self,maxCount):
+		# To fetch the number of selected items, we first try MSAA's accSelection, but if that fails in any way, we fall back to using IAccessibleTable2's nSelectedCells, if we are on an IAccessible2 table.
+		# Currently Chrome does not implement accSelection, thus for Google Sheets we must use nSelectedCells when on a table.
+		try:
+			sel=self.IAccessibleObject.accSelection
+		except COMError as e:
+			log.debugWarning("Error fetching accSelection, %s"%e)
+			sel=None
+		if sel:
+			try:
+				enumObj=sel.QueryInterface(IEnumVARIANT)
+			except COMError as e:
+				enumObj=None
+			if enumObj:
+				numItemsFetched=ctypes.c_ulong()
+				itemsBuf=(VARIANT*(maxCount+1))()
+				res=enumObj._IEnumVARIANT__com_Next(maxCount,itemsBuf,ctypes.byref(numItemsFetched))
+				if res!=S_OK:
+					return numItemsFetched.value if numItemsFetched.value<=maxCount else sys.maxint
+				else:
+					log.debugWarning("Error in IEnumVARIANT::Next, code %s"%res)
+		if self.IAccessibleTable2Object:
+			try:
+				return self.IAccessibleTable2Object.nSelectedCells
+			except COMError as e:
+				log.debugWarning("Error calling IAccessibleTable2::nSelectedCells, %s"%e)
+		return 0
+
 	def _get_table(self):
 		if not isinstance(self.IAccessibleObject,IAccessibleHandler.IAccessible2):
 			return None

source/NVDAObjects/__init__.py

@@ -1181,3 +1181,15 @@ def _get__hasNavigableText(self):
 			return True
 		else:
 			return False
+
+	def _get_selectionContainer(self):
+		""" An ancestor NVDAObject which manages the selection for this object and other descendants."""
+		return None
+
+	def getSelectedItemsCount(self,maxCount=2):
+		"""
+		Fetches the number of descendants currently selected.
+		For performance, this method will only count up to the given maxCount number, and if there is one more above that, then sys.maxint is returned stating that many items are selected.
+		"""
+		return 0
+

source/controlTypes.py

@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ def processNegativeStates(role, states, reason, negativeStates=None):
 	# but only if it is either focused or this is something other than a change event.
 	# The condition stops "not selected" from being spoken in some broken controls
 	# when the state change for the previous focus is issued before the focus change.
-	if role in (ROLE_LISTITEM, ROLE_TREEVIEWITEM, ROLE_TABLEROW) and STATE_SELECTABLE in states and (reason != REASON_CHANGE or STATE_FOCUSED in states):
+	if role in (ROLE_LISTITEM, ROLE_TREEVIEWITEM, ROLE_TABLEROW,ROLE_TABLECELL,ROLE_TABLECOLUMNHEADER,ROLE_TABLEROWHEADER) and STATE_SELECTABLE in states and (reason != REASON_CHANGE or STATE_FOCUSED in states):
 		speakNegatives.add(STATE_SELECTED)
 	# Restrict "not checked" in a similar way to "not selected".
 	if (role in (ROLE_CHECKBOX, ROLE_RADIOBUTTON, ROLE_CHECKMENUITEM) or STATE_CHECKABLE in states)  and (STATE_HALFCHECKED not in states) and (reason != REASON_CHANGE or STATE_FOCUSED in states):

source/speech.py

@@ -313,6 +313,15 @@ def speakObjectProperties(obj,reason=controlTypes.REASON_QUERY,index=None,**allo
 	newPropertyValues['current']=obj.isCurrent
 	if allowedProperties.get('placeholder', False):
 		newPropertyValues['placeholder']=obj.placeholder
+	# When speaking an object due to a focus change, the 'selected' state should not be reported if only one item is selected.
+	# This is because that one item will be the focused object, and saying selected is redundant.
+	# Rather, 'unselected' will be spoken for an unselected object if 1 or more items are selected. 
+
+	states=newPropertyValues.get('states')
+	if states is not None and reason==controlTypes.REASON_FOCUS:
+		if controlTypes.STATE_SELECTABLE in states and controlTypes.STATE_SELECTED in states and obj.selectionContainer and obj.selectionContainer.getSelectedItemsCount(2)==1:
+			states.discard(controlTypes.STATE_SELECTED)
+			states.discard(controlTypes.STATE_SELECTABLE)
 	#Get the speech text for the properties we want to speak, and then speak it
 	text=getSpeechTextForProperties(reason,**newPropertyValues)
 	if text: