Orca announces status of each steps' progress dot

[Paul Larson]

During an install of raring daily (20130312) with orca enabled. There are several points where it starts reading the status of progress bars that I can't seem to see. Example:
"progress bar 4 75%... progress bar 4 100%... progress bar 6 100%..."
In particular, the screen where you can select whether to install 3rd party plugins and whether to pull updates while installing seems to trigger a lot of these. I don't remember this previously being the case in quantal.

The impact of this is that there is so much extraneous noise about these things that it's confusing and takes a long time to get through this extra information. At one point I just clicked through it and kept going, and it took several screens before the screen reader was able to catch up, I suppose due to the backlog of events it was still trying to read to me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.13.13.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-12.21-generic 3.8.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.330
Date: Tue Mar 12 17:24:10 2013
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130312)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1154345

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

There are many progress bars now, each progress "dot" is a progress bar, as well as the long-running progress bar is running in the background. Hence orca is becoming more chatty when we change those.

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

can we get the priority of this bumped up a bit, the installer is basically completely unusable at the moment because it spends all its time talking about each of the dots

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

IMHO, This will need to be addressed before 14.04.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

A few times I've tried to find documentation of ATK objects and a11y framework. Even to the point of idling and discussing this on #a11y.

In essence, there doesn't appear to be any API to pragmatically control a11y in particular:
- emit custom events / announcements
- suppress events

Ideally I'd like to announce "Switching to step Prepare", but that is not currently possible.

If anybody knows / can point me to API or samples of custom ATK events I'd be glad to implement this. For the time being, it's not possible to do so.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.17.0

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ubiquity (2.17.0) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Aurélien Gâteau ]
  * Fix going back through skipped steps in kde_ui frontend.

  [ Dmitrijs Ledkovs ]
  * Switch "wireless" and "prepare" steps around (LP: #955232)
  * Don't read proc_cmdline twice (LP: #1213748)
  * Set wallpaper for 'feh' only, for others just assume gsettings schemes
    are correct.
  * Silence progress dots with invalid a11y (LP: #1154345)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror 2.50ubuntu1,
    debian-installer-utils 1.100ubuntu1, netcfg 1.111ubuntu1,
    partman-auto-lvm 51ubuntu1, partman-crypto 63ubuntu1, preseed
    1.62ubuntu1.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:46:26 -0700