[orca-list] GNOME3 overview and Orca

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

Hi,

during the last weeks I have been working on improving the ATK support
for GNOME Shell (for example [1][2][3][4][5]), the default desktop for
GNOME3, and now I have a doubt related to make things more intuitive.
Specifically, related to what happens when you enter on the overview.

Background: On GNOME Shell the behaviour is different to previous GNOME
desktop. As with other desktop, initially you are placed on the Desktop.
If you press Alt+Tab you move between application windows. If you press
Alt+Ctrl+Tab you move between different parts of the desktop, like top
panel. But, when you press Alt+F1 you don't move to an applications
menu. You get moved to the overview. Anyway the purpose of both is more
or less the same. The purpose of the overview is also searching for
applications and places. Once you are at the overview, if you press
Ctrl+Alt+Tab you can move to a different places:

  * Dash : list of favourites applications (get focused on the first
one) accessibility support is still a work in progress
  * Applications: the list of all the applications, you can navigate to
the right region to select categories. List of applications are
accessible, categories work in progress
  * Search: it is a search entry. Something similar to a google search.
When you set the focus here Orca presents his hint "Type to search". If
you start to type, a search is started and you can navigate on the list
of items
  * Top Panel: like in the normal view
  * Windows: select again the main overview region

My question is related to what happen when you move to the overview. If
you press Alt+F1, Orca expose "overview panel" because the object
focused is the overview panel containing all this stuff. If the user
start to write, the focus is automatically moved to the Search Entry and
Orca briefly presents "Type to search" in order to report the user that
the focus was moved, as if the Search entry were selected with the
Ctrl+Alt+Tab shortcut. But I'm not sure if this is misleading, of the
user can understand what it is happening.

What do you think? It would be enough to write a kind of Orca+GNOME
Shell guide to explain all this? Or it would be also required to add
some kind of extra information related with entering the overview?

Thanks for your attention

BR


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667432
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668361
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668366
[4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670308
[5] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670312


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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias