<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:46 AM kendell clark <<a href="mailto:coffeekingms@gmail.com">coffeekingms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
just curious. What changed in gnome 3.16 to make status icons<br>
inaccessible? In gnome 3.14, the message tray was never inaccessible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Status icons were decoupled from notifications, and the message tray was removed altogether, as well as the items that grouped notifications (usually by application). The latter was what provided accessible-name/event handling for status icons, not the icons themselves - so when the icons were moved, I overlooked the missing accessibility features that used to be provided by the removed bits.<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Some of the icons wouldn't let me access their pop up menu but they<br>
all corresponded with their application. EG pidgin internet messenger,<br>
vlc media player, etc. Is this still the case with the icons being<br>
moved to the bottom left of the screen?<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop" target="_blank"></a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, with the patches from the aforementioned bug. It is still up to the application providing the icon to handle keyboard events, but at least almost all icons should have a name.<br></div></div></div>