GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 686237
incomplete accessibility support
Last modified: 2015-09-25 20:58:56 UTC
Most of the ui is read just as 'panel' or 'push button', when it should read a contact name, or email address, or description.
This bug is still valid in 3.8. For example, the link contacts "check" toggle button is read out as "toggle button" and has no tooltip, the Edit button is just read out as "Edit push button" and has no tooltip, etc.. Adding some tooltips would improve the situation quite a lot as they are read out by orca and would make documenting the UI for the user help considerably easier.
I've updated some buttons. What's still missing here ? PD: My screen-reader isn't working properly
Erick: I'd recommend Accerciser for testing then.
(In reply to comment #1) ... > Adding some tooltips would improve the situation quite a lot as they are read > out by orca and would make documenting the UI for the user help considerably > easier. I don't see why we need tooltips for this, and I'm not a fan of using them as a workaround for accessibility bugs. Let's just add accessible names. For the check mark button, I would suggest "Select Contacts".
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #1) < … > I don't see why we need tooltips for this, and I'm not a fan of using them as a > workaround for accessibility bugs. Let's just add accessible names. For the > check mark button, I would suggest "Select Contacts". I want tooltips because I don't want to find out what will happen if I press a button by trying it out. I would rather know what it will do before I press it. Accessible names will not solve this problem for me (although we should obviously use them anyway).
(In reply to comment #5) ... > I want tooltips because I don't want to find out what will happen if I press a > button by trying it out. I would rather know what it will do before I press it. > Accessible names will not solve this problem for me (although we should > obviously use them anyway). That's a separate bug then: please file it.
The accessibility side is much improved, I think this bug can be closed.