[orca-list] gnome-panel and notification area madness

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hey All:

We'd really like to get the gnome-panel navigation working well for 
GNOME 2.24.  There's been a bunch of work in this space for the GNOME 
2.23.x development series (see the end of this message for a list of 
bugs), but I'm not sure we're there yet.

If you're using GNOME 2.23.x on your desktop, can you please try working 
with navigating gnome-panel using normal keyboard traversal techniques 
and comment on the issues you're running into?  I'm curious about:

0) The steps you tried and the keystrokes you typed - the more
   specific you are, the better.

1) Can you get to things via the keyboard alone?

2) Goodness or badness that Orca presented

3) If you experienced badness, what is the desired goodness that
   you would expect in speech/braille/magnification?

This will help us narrow the problems down to orca issues, general 
gnome-panel issues, notification area issues, and general applet issues. 
 I'm not sure we will be able to get to all problems, but hopefully we 
will be able to make a noticeable improvement.

Thanks!

Will

Related bugs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431030
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473786
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536985
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544106