Re: [orca-list] gnome-shell app panel accessibility issue

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Pavel.

The reason Orca doesn't announce the edit field when you press the super 
key is that, as I understand it, you're technically not in that field. 
You could, for instance, instead interact with the Dash. Because you're 
not technically in the edit field, gnome-shell presumably doesn't emit a 
focus event for the edit field you're not in. And because gnome-shell 
doesn't emit that focus event, Orca doesn't announce that focus is in 
the entry. Instead, Orca waits to be told you're in the entry to pass 
that information on to you.

I suppose I could have Orca lie to you and say you're in the entry even 
though you're presumably not. But the minute some extension or change to 
gnome-shell causes you to be in something other than the search entry, 
then the bug will be "Orca is saying I'm in the entry when I'm not." 
Thus I don't think Orca should claim as fact things which are merely 
guesses.

Long way of saying the following: Perhaps the gnome-shell developers 
would be willing to emit a focus event for the search entry if that is 
where focus will go should the user start typing. That should get Orca 
to say what you want without actually changing the user experience for 
other users.

--joanie

On 8/10/19 6:53 AM, Pavel Vlček via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is this issue reported somewhere?
>
> How to reproduce.
>
> Login to your Gnome session
>
> press super key
>
> actual result: Orca says window or nothing
>
> expected result: Orca will read the search field describtion, so "type 
> to search", type of field is text.
>
> This issue is fixed in Budgie desktop, but in Gnome not. Can this be 
> fixed by Orca, or do we need to report this bug to the developers of 
> gnome-shell?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pavel
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html