[Bug 1105371] Re: Orca is skipping key details of the updates list

[Dylan McCall]

I'll keep this up to date on what I find, but since I didn't mention in
the description: I think this one is going to be harder than it looks.

First, probably worth mentioning that Orca also does not mention the
other image inside the Install column. Right now, when I select a row in
the updates list, it says "Image, System Settings, Expanded - three
Items, 12.5 MB". If it was reading all of the cells, it would say
something like "Image, Checkbox - ticked, Image, System Settings,
Expanded - three Items, 12.5 MB".  If all was right in the world, it
would skip both of those images and say (at least) "Checkbox - ticked,
System Settings, Expanded - three Items, 12.5 MB". If I change the order
of those cells inside the Install column (and use Gtk.CellAreaBox
instead of CellAreaPackage), Orca _still_ reads the label cell. The
screen reader does mention the toggle cell correctly if it is in its own
column, but that is quite unattractive.

I poked at Software Updater with Accerciser and it looks like the stuff
inside the Install column all reaches it correctly. The toggle cell
inside our GtkCellArea looks exactly like a toggle cell in its own
column, except nested a little deeper. I'm hoping that is helpful for
someone who knows anything about accessibility. (Eg: Not me). :)

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Title:
  Orca is skipping key details of the updates list

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  With the new updates tree view, Orca is correctly reading the name of
  each update (and whether it can be expanded), but it never reads the
  toggle cell in the Install column. This means a vision-impaired user
  has no way of knowing which updates are selected and which are not.
  This is a regression from Ubuntu 12.10. We need to convince the screen
  reader to mention whether an update is toggled.

  In addition, the screen reader currently says "Image" for every cell
  in restart_column, even when (99% of the time) there is no image
  visible. This is noisy and unhelpful. Instead, Orca should say nothing
  for this cell, unless the restart required icon is being displayed, in
  which case it should say "Restart required".

  These issues were observed Using Orca 3.7.0.94 and GTK+ 3.6.2 in
  Ubuntu 12.10.

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