orca reads the password out loud
Bug #944159 reported by
Alan Bell
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ORCA |
Opinion
|
Undecided
|
David Murphy | ||
unity-greeter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Terry | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Terry |
Bug Description
the password widget should have ATK role set to ROLE_PASSWORD_TEXT which will cause screen readers to avoid reading the password out loud to passers by
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-greeter 0.2.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 1 17:23:59 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120217)
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity-greeter: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Luke Yelavich (themuso) |
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Michael Terry (mterry) |
tags: | removed: rls-q-incoming |
no longer affects: | unity-greeter |
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Digging into this some, it seems that the widget already has the correct accessible role. The bug is that something in unity greeter is causing the Orca splash screen to not be suppressed. As a result, the splash screen appears, goes away, and nothing in the greeter reclaims focus. So Orca doesn't know it's in the object with ROLE_PASSWORD_TEXT. When I disabled the splash screen, Orca does not echo the keys when the password is typed.
The good news is that it is my understanding that Luke already has a patch proposed to solve the splash-screen suppression bug, so this bug should just go away when that fix is committed.