Re: Panel notification area and other icons a11y

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Ara:

I think it might be this bug: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547475

Fixing it would be awesome, but I'm not sure if it's possible.

Will

Ara Pulido wrote:
> 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.
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