dash +orca does not speak the names of application icons

[Alan Bell]

[Impact]
Screen reader support for dynamic content in the Dash is enabled.

[Test Case]

(1) Enable Screen Reader (System Settings > Universal Access > Screen Reader)
(2) Press Super + A to bring up the Applications lens of the Dash
(3) Navigate displayed content
(4) Choose an application for preview
(5) Press Esc until the Dash is closed, repeat steps 2 to 4

You should hear the application description and preview description.

[Regression Potential]

Some new code deals with processing pointers: the usual problem potential of dealing with pointers in C code applies.

[Other Info]

This patch for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was cherry picked from the Ubuntu "Vivid Vervet" dev release where it has been in public use for some time without apparent regression.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Reproduced, high since it's an a11y issue.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

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

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1066157

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

After further investigation, I have found there is a race condition somewhere, which results in stale information about the dash with regards to accessibility used by the screen reader. I am able to trigger a refresh of the information after using some of the screen reader's review features, and when doing so, I can navigate the results on the dash without issue.

My investigation continues.

[Rob Whyte (fudge)]

What steps did you use to view the dash results?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.3.1+15.04.20150227-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (7.3.1+15.04.20150227-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Draw osk above unity shell. (LP: #1413165)
  * Remove FontSettings.*. Add the possibility to specify the font size
    and the font weight without chaning the default font name. Fix lp
    886478. (LP: #886478)
  * Remove unitydialog plugin.

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * Explore children when a view or layout is added (LP: #1066157)
  * Move the unity a11y present environment call
  * Set focus to FALSE on window deactivation (LP: #1066157)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:38:19 +0000

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Alan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[katsu (katsukatsu-deactivatedaccount)]

* enable proposed repository & install unity package.

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy unity libunity-core-6.0-9 unity-services
unity:
  Installed: 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1 0
        400 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
     7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
     7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

libunity-core-6.0-9:
  Installed: 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1 0
        400 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
     7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
     7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

unity-services:
  Installed: 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1 0
        400 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
     7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
     7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

[CHECK: Test Case]
Change locale to english by language selector.
(1) Enable Screen Reader (System Settings > Universal Access > Screen Reader)
(2) Press Super + A to bring up the Applications lens of the Dash
(3) Navigate displayed content
(4) Choose an application for preview
(5) Press Esc until the Dash is closed, repeat steps 2 to 4

---> You should hear the application description and preview description.
Read repeatedly and may not read.
Is it a problem of the operation speed? or hardware spec?

[katsu (katsukatsu-deactivatedaccount)]

I made a mistake comment #7.
---> You should hear the application description and preview description.
Read repeatedly and may not read.
Is it a problem of the operation speed? or hardware spec?

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It is correct.
---> Hear the application description and preview description.

PS. Preview description is read twice and may not read. (item name: Recentry used, installed, Dash Plugins)
Is it a problem of operation speed? or problem of hardware spec?.
Is this setting correct?

[katsu (katsukatsu-deactivatedaccount)]

I installed ubuntu 15.04 daily build on virtualbox and confirmed it.
---> I was able to confirm the same state.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (7.2.4+14.04.20150316-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Avoid running potentially dangerous code paths when the screen is
    locked. (LP: #1410582)
  * Ungrab the shoutdown dialog as soon as possible. (LP: #1398287)
  * Use COMPIZ_METAKEY where needed. (LP: #1363534)
  * disabled Pointer Barriers during lockscreen (LP: #1401911)
  * disabled markup for VolumeLauncherIcon quicklist menu items (LP:
    #1413411)
  * enable Dash, Hud, and session dialogs over full screen window (LP:
    #1159249, #860970, #1413773, #1404486)
  * made unity unlockable if user is in nopsswdlogin group (LP:
    #1413790)
  * skipped the animation of BGHash on startup to prevent unwanted fade-
    in (LP: #1241757)

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * extended accessible exploration of the Dash dynamic content (LP:
    #1066157)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * MenuManager: make sure menus are always shown when mouse is over
    them or when the always-show-menus option is on (LP: #955193,
    #1390562, #1374942, #1312137)
  * PanelService: use gdbus to notfy upstart of service start/stop (LP:
    #1302955)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:30:35 +0000

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.