Comment 11 for bug 824629

I have already specified the accessible name for the menu title. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Power#Title> GUIs are made of many small navigable elements, and therefore accessible names can give more detail and explanation at the end, secure in the knowledge that if you didn't want to hear it you would have navigated somewhere else by now. And unless you're a Victor Borge fan, punctuation is not that audible. For those two reasons, I specified accessible names of the form "Mouse (27 minutes to charge)", not "Mouse (0:27)". And for those two reasons, the accessible name is not relevant to this bug.

The Gnome 2 comparison is hyperbole. As described in the original report, if the presentation of battery time remaining was perfectly consistent with the clock, that would be a bad thing.