$/!\$ Warning: This is only a proposal at this time, and not approved for project-wide application. This should not be applied before being officially turned into a GNOME Goal.

GNOME Goal: Adding accessibility information to status icons

Guidelines

A lot of projects use status icons that lack "title" information that would allow the icons to be uniquely identified by screen readers.

Check:

For each status icon created, gtk_status_icon_set_title() is called
The title not including status information duplicated from the tooltip
Contains enough information to be uniquely identified outside of the context of the program itself (eg. "Sound Output Volume", not "Output", or "Volume")

Comments before approval

Status of this goal

Tip: If you choose to work on a module, create the bug report on the GNOME bugzilla. This way people will know someone already works on it, and won't duplicate the work you're doing.

State	Markup
todo	`<: #ff8080> todo`
patch	`<: #ffc849> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|patch]]`
done	`<: #80ff80> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|done]]`
not needed	`<: #80ff80> not needed`

Above are the states and corresponding markup to update the modules state table below.

Tarball	Status
Desktop
gnome-media	patch
gnome-bluetooth	patch
rhythmbox	patch
tomboy	todo

Initiatives/GnomeGoals/StatusIconA11y (last edited 2013-12-18 13:44:45 by LuisMenina)