Enabling Orca screen reader indirectly causes sidebar to hide on login

[Alan Jenkins]

Environment: Unity 2D

1. Enable Orca screen reader.
2. Log out and back in.

On login, the Orca window appears as expected. Unfortunately, it's position overlaps the sidebar (task management area). This causes the sidebar to auto-hide itself.

Expected behavior:
Unity, the window manager, and Orca, should conspire as necessary to avoid hiding the sidebar on login.

The sidebar is a fundamental part of the unity interface. It is not acceptable if enabling an accessibility feature is dramatically changing the Unity interface for no good reason.

Of course, this just might not be happening for others. Or there might be a good reason to want to do this -- I can't think of one, but I'm not a visually impaired user.

Something similar seems to happen with the position Firefox is started in, so maybe this _is_ deliberate... or maybe it's just a general bug. But it doesn't seem to happen with anything else.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Fri Oct 14 20:42:21 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (0 days ago)

[Alan Jenkins (aj504)]

The standard 3D-based version of Unity has started working on my computer now, and that's even worse. Orca starts in the top-right hand corner of the screen, with its titlebar hidden underneath the top panel.