Panel notification area and other icons a11y

[Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com>]

Hello all,

This is a testing-orientated question, but as most of the desktop 
testing frameworks are based on a11y information, I guess this is the 
right mailing list to ask.

Right now there is a lot of on going work in Ubuntu to clean up and 
rearrange the icons of the notification area.

Automated testing this would be a great idea, but the problem is that it 
is impossible to know which icon are you looking at, as they don't have 
a11y information.

If you check with accerciser the notification area, you can see that 
none of the icons have a name, which makes it impossible to track.

So, my question is (after all this ranting), how difficult would be to 
write patches to these applications to include that information?

Thanks,
Ara.