No focus using keyboard

[Luca Ferretti]

There is no way to focus libindicate based panel applets only using keyboard navigation. This is really really bad for a11y and should be fixed asap

Steps to reproduce:
  * switch to metacity
  * press Ctrl+Alt+Tab to focus top panel
  * press Tab to switch focus between applets in top panel

Current result
  Libindicate based applets can't focused using Tab (so you cant use Space or Return to activate and use them)

Expected result
  Libindicate based applet should act as other applets, respecting keyboard navigation rules for the sake of a11y

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 9 09:52:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: libindicator0 0.3.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT.utf8
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
SourcePackage: libindicator
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/334544

It seems there is a related bug, launchpad didn't show it when I reported this one.

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

Little update: it seems[1] that you can focus them, but
  * the focus ring isn't propertly showed
  * the activation key is crazy (left/righ arrow instead space/return)
  * the focus can't ungrabbed until you click

Plus the missing a11y unique name...

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-accessibility/2010-February/004194.html

[David Fraser (davidf)]

Quoting from https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-accessibility/2010-February/004194.html for reference:
> Actually this isn't quite true although the method for focusing them
> isn't obvious, nor is it obvious that you are on the indicator applet.
> Basically, tab around the panel until you hear "menu bar" one to the
> left of the clock. Press the right arrow. You will then focus the
> indicator applets with the keyboard. Note though that there are still a
> few issues here:
> 1. Indicator is not identified as such, this would be easily fixable. It
> is identified as "menu bar" instead which, while technically correct in
> a sense as it does function similar to a menu, isn't descriptive enough
> since there's already the main menu bar on the panel.
> 2. While doing this, sometimes you get stuck on the panel and can only
> tab between the indicator and the clock. The only way out of it I've
> found is to click the mouse somewhere else. This is more nasty. None of
> the task switching or panel switching keystrokes will work if you get
> into this situation.

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/228343 for issues with selecting the panel in the first place when using compiz

[David Fraser (davidf)]

Note in addition: Once the indicator-applet-session or indicator-applet is selected in the panel, it swallows all keypresses it doesn't expect, including the Tab and Shift-Tab keys you'd expect to get out of it. This seems more consistent than what is described above

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

Sebastien, I'm not sure this is a true duplicate of bug 334544. That bug is only asking for an accelerator to focus indicator applet, this bug was more related to poor support for keyboard navigation in libindicator stuff...
If you want to keep bug 334544 as the one related to keyboard navigation issues for libindicator is fine for me, but then its summary should be changed.