Bug#909302: metacity: Should present at-spi elements for the decorations

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:3.30.0-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: a11y
Owner: bugs at hypra.fr
User: bugs at hypra.fr
Usertags: hypra
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/issues/1

As reported to upstream:

While using a screen reader such as Orca in mouse review mode ("Speak object under mouse" option in its general preference panel), it would be useful to have it able to read the window decorations rendered by metacity. Basically, it means metacity exposing to at-spi some Accessible objects corresponding to the different decoration elements (notably the title bar and the buttons), so that Orca can know where they are and their content.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.28.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.27-6
ii  libcairo2                  1.15.12-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0               0.30-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.36.12-2
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.58.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.24.0-3
ii  libgtop-2.0-11             2.38.0-2
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.9-2
ii  libmetacity1               1:3.30.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.42.4-1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.12-5
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.6-1
ii  libxcomposite1             1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.15-1
ii  libxdamage1                1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6                   2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                 1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxinerama1               2:1.1.4-1
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.10-1
ii  metacity-common            1:3.30.0-2
ii  zenity                     3.28.1-1

metacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages metacity suggests:
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  xdg-user-dirs         0.17-1

-- no debconf information

-- 
Samuel
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