Bug#913978: is not accessible with Orca screenreader

Mika Hanhijärvi miksuh at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 21:00:27 GMT 2018


Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:3.30.2-1
Severity: grave
Tags: a11y


        Hello

I installed Debian Buster on virtual machine awhile ago. I wanted to try Buster
on virtual machine before upgrading my computers which are currently running
Debian Stretch. I am blind so I have to use screen reader which speaks the
content on screen. As a blind user I also can not use mouse so I use computer
from keyboard only without using mouse.

Gnome 3.30 desktop's new style settings window in Debian Buster is currently
completely unusable with the Orca screen reader. It is completely impossible to
access Gnome desktop settings using Orca screen reader. I can open the settings
window but the content of the window is completely inaccessible.

This is wery severe unacceptable problem. This bug makes Gnome 3.30 unusable
for the visually impaired users because you can not access or change the
desktop settings.

Here is how to reproduce this problem:

1) Make sure Orca screen reader is installed and running
2) Open Gnome desktop settings window
3) Try to navigate settings from keyboard using the arrow, tab etc keys.

Expected result should be that Orca should speak the content on screen and you
should be able to navigate and change settings from keyboard without any need
to use mouse. But it does not work as expected and settings window is not
accessibl                                which makes the settings window
completely unusable.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  accountsservice            0.6.45-1
ii  apg                        2.2.3.dfsg.1-5
ii  colord                     1.4.3-3+b1
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.23-4
ii  gnome-control-center-data  1:3.30.2-1
ii  gnome-desktop3-data        3.30.2-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      3.30.1.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.28.1-1
ii  libaccountsservice0        0.6.45-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.27-8
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.16.0-1
ii  libcairo2                  1.16.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0               0.30-6
ii  libcheese-gtk25            3.30.0-1
ii  libcheese8                 3.30.0-1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0           1.26.2+dfsg-7
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0       1.8.4-3
ii  libcolord-gtk1             0.1.26-2
ii  libcolord2                 1.4.3-3+b1
ii  libcups2                   2.2.8-5
ii  libfontconfig1             2.13.1-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.58.1-2
ii  libgnome-bluetooth13       3.28.2-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-17      3.30.2-1
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b              3.30.0-1
ii  libgoa-backend-1.0-1       3.30.0-1
ii  libgrilo-0.3-0             0.3.6-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.24.1-2
ii  libgtop-2.0-11             2.38.0-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0             232-2
ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.19-1
ii  libkrb5-3                  1.16.1-1
ii  libmm-glib0                1.8.2-1
ii  libnm0                     1.14.4-3
ii  libnma0                    1.8.18-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.42.4-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.42.4-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-21
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    12.2-2
ii  libpulse0                  12.2-2
ii  libpwquality1              1.4.0-2
ii  libsecret-1-0              0.18.6-3
ii  libsmbclient               2:4.9.1+dfsg-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.64.1-3
ii  libupower-glib3            0.99.9-1
ii  libwacom2                  0.31-1
ii  libwayland-server0         1.16.0-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxi6                     2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b2

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  cracklib-runtime              2.9.2-5.2+b1
ii  cups-pk-helper                0.2.6-1+b1
ii  gkbd-capplet                  3.26.0-3
ii  gnome-online-accounts         3.30.0-1
ii  gnome-user-docs               3.30.1-1
ii  gnome-user-share              3.28.0-1
ii  iso-codes                     4.1-1
ii  libcanberra-pulse             0.30-6
ii  libnss-myhostname             239-11
ii  mousetweaks                   3.12.0-4
ii  network-manager-gnome         1.8.18-2
ii  policykit-1                   0.105-21
ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth   12.2-2
ii  realmd                        0.16.3-2
ii  rygel                         0.36.2-1
ii  rygel-tracker                 0.36.2-1
ii  system-config-printer-common  1.5.11-3

Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii  gnome-software           3.30.1-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  1.14.4-1
pn  libcanberra-gtk-module   <none>
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-6
ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+8

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