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

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