[orca-list] technical question about gtk labels

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi all
This isn't a bug report, or anything like that, but a question. There
are still quite a few things in gnome control center and in gnome
itself which aren't labeled properly, causing orca to simply announce
only the role of the object "button" "combo box" etc, instead of it's
label, followed by the role. I cloned the gnome control center's git
repository and checked out the gnome 3.16 branch to make sure I was
using the latest code for gnome 3.16, and looked through some of the
code. I'm no expert in c code, I barely know enough to have a basic
understanding of what I'm reading, but looking at most of it, orca
should announce most things. Here's a fragment taken from the display
panel in gnome control center.  cc-display-panel.c.
  label  gtk_label_new (_("Resolution"));
  gtk_style_context_add_class (gtk_widget_get_style_context (label),
                               GTK_STYLE_CLASS_DIM_LABEL);

There are more lines but I tried to paste the most relevant. Looking
at that code,  it looks like orca should announce "resolution combo
box xxxx times yyyy ratio" instead of "combo box xxxx times yyyy
ratio". Any c or c++ experts around who can answer this one? This
looks like it's labeled properly, and yet orca doesn't see the label.
Thanks a lot for any help, I'm trying to iron out the remaining a11y
bugs in gnome. Plus, I'm getting tired of unlabeled controls that linger
Thanks
Kendell clark
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