----- Original Message ----- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > hi > I'll add my voice into the debate again. The status icons thing needs > fixing. I don't particularly care what the final decision is, but it > *needs fixing, and very soon. Here's why. When the message tray was > removed, the status icons were shunted off into a sort of hidden area > of the bottom panel, accessible by pressing control+alt+tab until > "status icons" is heard, and released. You land on the first icon in > the list. 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. This is a bug. A plain bug. There's nothing to discuss. File a bug. > An alternative is for the gnome developers to add > accessibility guidelines There are already a11y guides, which the extension authors don't read. > Long story short, this is > gnome's, and not the extension author's, problem to solve. I really don't see how. The APIs are there, the guidelines are there. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
