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hi
I'll add my voice into the debate again. The status icons thing needs
fixing. I don't particularly care what the final decision is, but it
*needs fixing, and very soon. Here's why. When the message tray was
removed, the status icons were shunted off into a sort of hidden area
of the bottom panel, accessible by pressing control+alt+tab until
"status icons" is heard, and released. You land on the first icon in
the list. However, accessibility of this area is extremely weird. The
icons are usually, though not always, announced as the application
name. EG pidgin. However, when you attempt to right click to bring up
a context menu, you end up clicking on the applet to the right of the
one orca's focus has landed on. Gnome developers cannot simply blow
this off as, sorry, status icons is deprecated, blame your app
provider.
This is a bug. A plain bug. There's nothing to discuss. File a bug.
An alternative is for the gnome developers to add
accessibility guidelines
There are already a11y guides, which the extension authors don't read.
Long story short, this is
gnome's, and not the extension author's, problem to solve.
I really don't see how. The APIs are there, the guidelines are there.