[Bug 80639] Re: [a11y] Feisty gnome-panel applets lack names, descriptions

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Accessibility bugs are often not like other bugs :)

Seb, I think you're right that it should be pulled in by the AT app, but
more importantly by Orca than by at-poke. Joanie first noticed the
problem when using the Orca screen reader which needs various GTK
applications to make some textual information available via AT-SPI. In
the case of gnome panel, the icons themselves have little meaning to a
screen reader without these labels.

She simply used the at-poke utility to diagnose the problem further. It
is a tool used by assistive technology developers to probe applications
for information available via AT-SPI and we ship it in universe.

Adding a gnome-orca package task as I suspect it may have a missing
recommends or dependency. On my Edgy system libgail-gnome-module is
pulled in by gnopernicus, which is fine but it breally also needs to be
pulled in by Orca.

** Changed in: at-poke (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High
       Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed

** Also affects: gnome-orca (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Unconfirmed

** Changed in: gnome-orca (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High
       Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed

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[a11y] Feisty gnome-panel applets lack names, descriptions
https://launchpad.net/bugs/80639