application icons in apps lens are all called "button"

Bug #851694 reported by Alan Bell
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unity (Ubuntu)
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unity-2d (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

using Unity with the included Orca screenreader, all the buttons in the app lens are just "button" and curiously a few are unlabled at all.
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/unityorca.ogv
They should expose the application name so that orca can read them out.

Tags: a11y
Robert Roth (evfool)
tags: added: a11y
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Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote :

ok, latest updates are a tiny improvement! The category now correctly reads the number of more results available, it also correctly reads the names of the applications in the top row which were visible with the category collapsed. if you expand the category it still reads the category as if it were collapsed and all the applications below the top row are still called "button"

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Kyubutsu (jf) wrote :

confirmed, applications are all called 'button' in dash search.
also, going into 'more apps' orca does not read back anything, except for the expanded categories on the right.

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Kyubutsu (jf) wrote :

furthermore, i can only confirm this in unity2d

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

This bug is due to a known issue in Qt4.7.4 with accessibility. I'm marking this as duplicate.

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

Nope, this is not a dupe of #817416, and I don't think it's a dupe of #817416, either.

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