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

[Joanie]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

In Edgy, all of applets in gnome-panel had names and/or descriptions
and/or labels.  For instance, the description associated with the trash
applet had a description which indicated how many items were in the
trash.  The volume control embedded component had the name of "volume
control" and a description which indicated the track and current volume
(e.g. "Master 83%").  The weather applet embedded component's
description indicated the city and conditions; the current temperature
was contained in a label in one of the component's descendants.  And so
on, and so on.

I just installed Feisty and all of this information seems to be absent
-- at least for all of the non-default applets.  (It is still present
for Show Desktop, Window List, Workplace Switcher, and clock).  As a
result, screen readers such as Orca can no longer provide access to
these items.  Instead they can only say "panel" because that is
apparently all that is currently being exposed via AT-SPI.  (You can
verify this using AT-POKE)

Just in case I was missing a package, I tried building and installing
from source gnome-panel and gnome-applets.   It made no difference.

According to one of the developers of gnome-panel, names, descriptions,
and the like are contained in the server files shipped with the applets
and their absence is a bug within the distro.

** Affects: gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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