GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 138738
'Menus and Toolbars' preview buttons misleading
Last modified: 2006-07-03 16:35:38 UTC
The 'New' 'Open' and 'Save' buttons are misleading for accessibility users operating gnopernicus for desktop navigation. There is no indication that these buttons have no function and are only previews. They are currently reported as normal buttons i.e. 'Open, push-button, available' An added description such as 'example' would be appropriate, or even removing their keynavagibility altogether would prevent them becoming focused(therefore not reported by the screen reader).
I do not like the idea of removing their navigability. The goal is to provide something that looks and feels like a menu/toolbar. Manually setting an accurate description seems like a better way to go.
I agree. David, from the blind users' perspective there may already be enough context (nearly!) by the time these items are focussed. Adding some hint in tht description would probably be enough.
If labels were caret navigable again, the 'Preview' label would be reported before reaching these buttons so that could provide context. At present however I don't see/hear enough context and I immediately thought it was an actual option to open a file or create a 'new something'..
then possibly this is a dup of gnopernicus bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111854 "frame context is very useful"
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The bug mentioned in comment #4 has been fixed. Is this still a problem?
can somebody reply on the previous comment?
Closing this bug report as no-one replied to the last comment within the last 12 months. Please anybody feel free to reopen this bug if you feel the need. Thanks in advance!