Pages title not exposed to Screen reader

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Precise Desktop 20120325

Ubiquity doesn't expose page title to the screen reader. It makes installation impossible for visually impaired people.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 26 10:31:10 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120325)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/965349

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm not sure this is entirely true. It does show up in Flat Review mode, although it isn't in the focus chain unless you start the entire CD with the screen reader enabled using gfxboot menus. (I've been trying to fix the latter, but am running into some odd bugs.)

Is the desired behaviour here for the new page title to be read each time we change to a new page, or something like that?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Although that said I see that orca's internals documentation describes Flat Review mode as for dealing with "ill-behaved applications".

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Alan Bell says that the desired behaviour is to read the page title as each page opens.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release