Tweak Tool in Workstation?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed May 13 13:48:54 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 04:33 -0500, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> 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. If the status icon for a particular app is not accessible,
> yes that's a problem with the app. But this is a problem with the 
> area
> where the icons are themselves.

I really don't think anything has changed in the accessibility
implementation of status icons while they were moved from the message
tray to the legacy tray. It has been just as 'weird' before. 


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