Re: [Ring] Screen reader accessibility issue in latest version from Ubuntu PPA

[Jeremy Lincicome]

On 03/02/2017 03:15 PM, Stepan Salenikovich wrote:
> ----- On Mar 2, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Stepan Salenikovich address@hidden wrote:
>
> > ----- On Feb 14, 2017, at 6:22 PM, Jeremy Lincicome address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I'm running the Orca screen reader on Ubuntu 16.10.
> > >
> > > There's an issue when tabbing around the Ring window. When tabbing
> > > around the window, Orca will suddenly stop speaking.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what's going on visually when this happens. I can recover
> > > by using flat review and looking for the text label of the search box
> > > and simulating a left click on it.
> > >
> > > Steps to reproduce:
> > >
> > > 1. Launch Orca by pressing Alt+Super+s.
> > >
> > > 2. Launch Ring.
> > >
> > > 3. Press tab to move around the screen.
> > >
> > > Eventually, Orca will stop reading to you.
> > >
> > > 4. To recover, use flat review to find the text that says "search" and
> > > simulate a left click on it.
> > >
> > > The flat review commands for Orca can be found at:
> > >
> > > https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/commands_mouse.html.en
> > >
> > > Note:
> > >
> > > When you launch Orca, you will be in desktop layout by default.
> > >
> > > Thanks for looking into this.
> > >
> > > Jeremy
> > It seems that after tabbing into the WebKitWebView (which is used to display
> > the chat) it does not change focus to the next widget when tabbing again.
> > Although
> > shift + tab works to leave it.
> >
> > I've pushed a small patch for review which should fix this issue once it is
> > merged:
> > https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/#/c/6207/
> >
> > I quickly tested with the screen reader enabled. Unfortunately I noticed that
> > the screen reader isn't able to read the chat messages which are in the WebView,
> > which I assume is the desired behaviour. I'm not sure if that is what happened
> > previously when we used the GtkTextView for it. Maybe its something that can
> > be easily fixed...
> >
> > -stepan
> Actually, I just realized that using Control + Tab and Control + Shift + Tab 
> seems
> to work to navigate. Is this an acceptable solution for those using Orca?
>
> My initial patch to fix the Tab and Shift+Tab not working was simply to disable
> keyboard focus in the chat view, but I don't like this because then you can't
> scroll using the arrow keys.

Stepan,
Control + Tab is an acceptable solution.
Also, to answer your question about chat, when gtk text view was used, chats 
were readable.
Webkit and Orca don't always get along.
Webkit-gtk seams to work well... most of the time.

Thanks,
Jeremy