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Bug 331447 - [a11y] The accessible name for Mail message header list "checkbox" table cells is not useful.
[a11y] The accessible name for Mail message header list "checkbox" table cell...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.6.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 419142 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 419142 423346
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-16 18:40 UTC by Rich Burridge
Modified: 2021-05-19 12:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Rich Burridge 2006-02-16 18:40:25 UTC 
Evolution 2.5.X from CVS HEAD, GNOME 2.12, Solaris x86.

Bring up Evolution in the Mail view. The various table cells
in each message summary row that are checkboxs (Status, Attachment ...)
have an accessible name that parrots the column header.

What would be much more useful is for them to have a name that reflects
their current state. For example, the Status one could have an accessible
name of "read", "unread" or "replied to" rather than "Status" (which we
can get from the table column header).

When there is a table cell checkbox that just has two states (the
Attachment field for example), then if there is no Attachments for
this message, the accessible name can be None. If there are attachments,
then the accessible name could tell you how many there are.

And so on...
Comment 1 Calum Benson 2006-04-26 17:07:31 UTC 
Apologies for spam... ensuring Sun a11y folks are cc'ed on all current accessibility bugs.
Comment 2 Willie Walker 2007-04-17 15:22:30 UTC 
Evolution folks - this is over a year old.  :-(  Would you be able to point us in a direction where we might be able to provide a patch for the Evolution code?
Comment 3 Javier 2007-09-26 10:59:31 UTC 
It would be very nice to have this fixed, now I am not able to know when a mesage is read or have attachments.
I think this is no so difficult to implement and would help blind users of Evolution very much.
Comment 4 Willie Walker 2008-01-06 16:34:55 UTC 
Ping?  Any ideas Evolution folks?  Can you help us or at least point us in the right direction so we might be able to provide a patch for your code?
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:26:10 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 6 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-04-02 15:52:31 UTC 
Ping.
Comment 7 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-08-14 21:19:41 UTC 
*** Bug 419142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 André Klapper 2021-05-19 12:28:27 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new bug report ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.