Package: mate-panel
Version: 1.20.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: a11y upstream
Owner: b...@hypra.fr
User: b...@hypra.fr
Usertags: hypra
Forwarded: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/835
>From upstream report, for tracking in Debian:
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
Run a mate desktop
Run orca, enable mouse review ("Speak object under mouse" option in its
general configuration panel)
Move mouse to mate panel wigets, for instance here the clock
Expected behaviour
Orca should speak the panel widget content, in the instance here the clock
date & time
Actual behaviour
Orca just says "panel"
MATE general version
1.20
Package version
1.20.1
Linux Distribution
Debian buster
Additional information
The issue is that mate-panel widgets do not expose Accessible objects through
at-spi. When looking in accerciser, we see mate-panel expose the panel
structure (thus why Orca says "panel"), but the final widgets are not exposed.
Of course, for proper complete support, probably each and every panel widget
needs to be fixed to expose its content through at-spi. Perhaps mate-panel
should at least put the name of the widget in the panel description (just like
it does with panel_a11y_set_atk_name_desc for "Top Panel"), so at least the
user knows which widget it is. We can then work on adding support to widgets,
at least the most commonly used.
Samuel
