Tweak Tool in Workstation?

[Bastien Nocera]

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> hi
> No problem. I can file a bug. Which component? maybe ... gnome shell,
> core component?

gnome-shell.

> I don't mind filing bugs. My main reason for the ... I
> don't know if it was a rant, was that I'm the *only*, or it feels that
> way anyway, person filing these bugs.

You're certainly an early adopter amongst our orca users.

> This isn't really gnome's fault,
> but accessibility is very fragile. It breaks easily, and the reason
> why can be very tricky.

Yes, certainly. Which is one of the reasons why we made a11y switchable
at run-time. In the olden days, you had to log out and log in again when
enabling an a11y feature.

Which is why testing is invaluable.

> On a positive note, I've been doing a lot of
> testing with gnome on wayland, and it's just as accessible as x11.

Yay :)

> The
> desktop isn't drawn, but that's a known bug already. What about the
> duplicate controlls?

That's usually missing metadata on the widgets, and easily fixable through
a couple of GtkBuilder lines.

> I have no idea what's causing that. It happens
> primarily in gnome's control center, in almost every module,

Aren't most of those fixed? Rui released a new 3.16 gnome-control-center
yesterday, and we're backporting those fixes for GNOME 3.14 and Fedora 21
as well.

> but also
> in gnome tweak tool. I don't think there are actually duplicate
> controlls, just that orca is reading duplicates, for some very odd
> reason. Can you point me to some a11y guidelines? It looks like I'll
> have to start nagging extension authors to read them.

This is the main entry point:
https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/gad-how-it-works.html.en

The guidelines are here:
https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/gad-coding-guidelines.html.en

Creating accessible custom widgets:
https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/gad-custom.html.en

and examples:
https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/gad-api-examples.html.en

HTH