Bug#757852: accessibility: orca stays quite

[Mike Gabriel]

Dear Jean-Philippe,

On  Mo 11 Aug 2014 21:34:13 CEST, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:

> Package: mate-panel
> Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where  
> appropriate ***
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
>
> I use Orca, a screen reader, exporting gail:atk-bridge GTK_MODULES.  
> I'm blind.
>
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>
> I pressed alt-f1, and have not the title of the menu where I come. I need to
> open it pressing the down arrow key to know the menu (software  
> menu). However,
> when I switch between the 3 menus (software, system and directories  
> menu), the
> title of the menu is spoken.
>
> The same, when I press alt-tab, holding them, Orca doesn't read the title of
> the window. To know it, I need to re;ease alt-tab and listen, or doing a
> specific request to Orca.
>
> Finally, when I switch to another workspace, Orca never says where I am
> (Space 1, 2, 3 and 4).
>
> It worked on gnome2.
>
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> Orca stays quite when I do alt-f1, when I hold alt-tab or when I  
> switch between
> workspaces.
>
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> Orca should read the title of the workspace, of the window,
> of the menu. It likely is due to a 7rong info sent to at-spi.
>

Thanks for providing all orca-related bug reports against the MATE  
desktop packages.

I will coordinate with MATE upstream to get these fixed for Jessie. So  
please, stay tuned. I will have time to look at these issues in  
Septembre, unfortunately not before that.

light+love,
Mike
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