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