Re: "[window title] inaccessible": where does it come from, and what does it mean?

To: Luca Saiu <lsaiu@hypra.fr>
Cc: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org, gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org, orca-list <orca-list@gnome.org>
Subject: Re: "[window title] inaccessible": where does it come from, and what does it mean?
From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 01:57:05 +0200
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Hello,

Luca Saiu, le Mon 29 Jun 2015 18:49:00 +0200, a écrit :
> window with a window manager (say Marco) the screen reader vocalizes the
> window title followed by "inaccessible", and the application state is
> not vocalized and doesn't show up in Braille -- I'm using the X11 driver
> of brltty, which works correctly with other applications implementing
> AtkText.

Just thinking: are you emitting the "focus:" or
"object:state-changed:focused" signal?  This is needed for the screen
reader to know which accessible widget it should get the text from.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/ATK/BestPractices/Scratch

is probably a good read.

Samuel

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