Comment 11 for bug 153518

"how is what you describe a gnome-applets bug?"

I didn't say that. When I came across this bug report on Launchpad, it had already been assigned as a bug in gnome-applets; must have been done by the first person who reported this. And it isn't really his mistake I guess, because end users may not know which particular part of the software is causing the issue (I'll file this as a suggestion for improving Launchpad).

"and since you have the issue could you send it to bugzilla.gnome.org?"

I haven't done that because I've seen it myself only in Ubuntu and its derivatives like Linux Mint. I'm more partial towards KDE and distros apart from Ubuntu which I've used are all KDE-based. I'm sure the bug is probably in Gnome's accessibility software itself, but I think it might be more prudent if someone over here who's used Gnome on a non-Ubuntu based distro can confirm it exists in others.