No keyboard navigation for libindicate based applets

[Luca Ferretti]

Il giorno mar, 09/02/2010 alle 13.21 -0700, Jacob Schmude ha scritto:
> Hi
> Actually this isn't quite true although the method for focusing them
> isn't obvious, nor is it obvious that you are on the indicator applet.

IMHO it's wrong ;) The proper panel item keyboard interaction should be
as described here

http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/keynav-5.html

> Basically, tab around the panel until you hear "menu bar" one to the
> left of the clock. Press the right arrow. 

I wasn't using speech or braille display. The applets should also have a
visual indication of current focus, but libindicate applet are missing
this.

> 1. Indicator is not identified as such, this would be easily fixable. It
> is identified as "menu bar" instead which, while technically correct in
> a sense as it does function similar to a menu, isn't descriptive enough
> since there's already the main menu bar on the panel.

Yes, developers should provide a a11y unique name for each libindicate
based applet. I think this could be easy, 'cause basically are just
menus.

> 2. While doing this, sometimes you get stuck on the panel and can only
> tab between the indicator and the clock. The only way out of it I've
> found is to click the mouse somewhere else. This is more nasty. None of
> the task switching or panel switching keystrokes will work if you get
> into this situation.

True, this is really really bad.