[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1128322: evince: PDF content is inaccessible to ATs (e.g. Orca) since 49~alpha-1

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

Package: evince
Version: 49~alpha-2
Severity: important
Tags: a11y

Dear Maintainer,

Since upgrading to 49~alpha-1 (which upgraded to GTK4 IIUC) I cannot
access PDF content with Orca anymore.  This is a major usability
regression for any user relying on accessibility, as they cannot read
PDFs using Evince anymore.

I am not sure if it's Evince itself that lost accessibility with GTK4,
or if there are specific requirements on GTK and/or AT-SPI2 versions
for this to work, but currently in Sid it doesn't work.

Interestingly, Papers (49.3-1) works, and seems to use GTK4 just the
same.  Atril still works as well, but uses GTK3 and didn't change
recently

PS: apparmor profile change was because of testing 48 again before this
report to confirm it worked, which required tampering because of
#1127710. Nothing fancy, just loosening security there.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (15, 'stable-security'), (15, 'stable'), (10, 'oldstable-security'), (10, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.18.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-4
ii  evince-common                                49~alpha-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    50~alpha-1
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.9~beta-2
ii  libc6                                        2.42-13
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.4-3
ii  libevdocument-4.0-6                          49~alpha-2
ii  libevview-4.0-5                              49~alpha-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.44.5+dfsg-4
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.87.2-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-4-2t64                      44.5-1
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.21.5+ds-5
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.57.0-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.7-2
ii  shared-mime-info                             2.4-5+hypra1~20250923161559.1

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.16.2-3
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.16.2-3

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  gvfs             1.58.0-2
pn  nautilus-sendto  <none>
ii  poppler-data     0.4.12-1
ii  unrar            1:7.2.4-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince changed [not included]

-- no debconf information