GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 513213
[a11y] [Un]selecting an icon on the nautilus desktop with Control-Space does not send the appropriate accessibility events.
Last modified: 2012-06-08 04:01:16 UTC
Summary pretty much says it all. If you have an icon selected on the Nautilus desktop and you unselect it with Control-Space, then no "object:state-changed:selected" events. Same for trying to select an unselected icon with Control-Space.
Created attachment 104049 [details] Orca debug output whilst testing this problem. We are getting "object:selection-changed" events -- you can see such an example at line 608: OBJECT EVENT: object:selection-changed detail=(0,0) app.name='nautilus' name='Icon View' role='layered pane' state='enabled focusable sensitive showing visible' relations='' but no "object:state-changed:selected" events.
This should work correctly now in git master.