Orca ScreenReader cannot pronounce the directory and files while navigating with the keyboard in the files app and not all active locations reachable using Tab and Shift-Tab

Bug #1356139 reported by Hadi Rezaei
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Bug Description

I have started to test elementary OS freya as a blind user. The installation was done by myself, but was a bit hard do to some problems with the installer and orca (this'll be on another bug report perhaps)

When i boot to my system, i pressed super+space and typed orca and pressed enter. i heared "Screen reader on" so i had orca running.
I tried pressing hotkeys to see if i can interact with the desktop, but orca remained silent. (perhaps another bug for this one as well?)
so i pressed super+space again, and slingshot was totally accessible. I tried some applications such as calculator and terminal, and they were usable.
I tried to open files and work with it. Unfortunetly orca cannot seem to read items while i navigate on to them with my arrow keys. when i pressed tab once, i heard the "back button" while my keyboard was focused on it.
I pressed tab once again, and i've heard the address which i was in, which said (/home/hadi/)
so i shift tabbed twice and got back to the main directory/file list, and use my arrow keys again but orca didn't speak anything.
I randomly pressed enter and it entered another directory, so this indicates that my keyboard focus was working, but orca actually couldn't read the elements.

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Hadi Rezaei (hadi-gsf)
tags: removed: exploring
tags: added: freya
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Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon1997) wrote :

I can confirm this as well.

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: New → Confirmed
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Hadi Rezaei (hadi-gsf) wrote :

I have managed to drop my keyboard focus to desktop's bar with a sighted friend. I used tab and shift tab and orca just announced "Menubar, menubar, menubar" so I think this might be a major issue with granite and orca

Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in granite:
milestone: none → freya-beta2
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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

It doesn't sound like this is a Granite issue since Granite doesn't provide any of the views. Untargetting Granite here.

no longer affects: granite
Changed in pantheon-files:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: none → loki-beta1
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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote :

Testing the latest revision (r2052) on Loki I find that Orca reads the contents under the cursor of

1) Sidebar
2) Directory View
3) Location bar entry field

when navigating with the cursor keys.

However, using Tab and Shift-Tab does not cycle through all clickable items. e.g. when the view has focus pressing Shift-Tab does nothing while pressing Tab moves to the "+" tab on the Notebook. However subsequent pressing of Tab does nothing.

I have expanded the scope of this bug accordingly.

summary: Orca ScreenReader cannot pronounce the directory and files while
- navigating with the keyboard in the files app
+ navigating with the keyboard in the files app and not all active
+ locations reachable using Tab and Shift-Tab
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: loki-beta1 → none
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote :

The linked branch limits the widgets reachable with Tab to the sidebar and the view, for simplicity. There are other keyboard short cuts for the other widgets. (Ctrl-L for the location bar, Ctrl-T for new tab, Ctrl-1,2,3 for mode-switcher etc).

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone: none → juno-beta1
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: juno-beta1 → 0.3.5
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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