GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 359643
[a11y] user-admin User Priviledges table is not accessible.
Last modified: 2008-02-04 16:56:10 UTC
See also Orca bug #358467 for more details. The table of items under the User Priviledges tab on the "New User Account" dialog is not accessible. Orca, the default screen reader/magnifier for the GNOME desktop can't read them because it unfortunately can't get to them. at-poke can't see them either. The list of messages in Evolution mail view has an accessible table and table cells. Perhaps you can check the code there to see how they did it.
The problem here ended up being a table cell containing two other table cells (see bug #358467 for more details). We've worked around it in Orca by writing a special Python Orca users-admin.py script, but it would be nice if we could get it fixed AtTheSource(TM). It would be nice if they could be represented by a single object, much like the checkboxes we see outside of tables. Thanks.
Applications should be entitled to design their applications to have a table cell with two other table cells in it, and Orca should be able to do the right thing, either directly or by writing a special script for the application. That is indeed now the case, and Orca handles this case directly. See bug #376015 for more details. Closing this one as NOTABUG.