Accessibility: status bar’s children not exposed to at-spi
When a status bar includes some widgets, these are currently not
exposed to at-spi, and therefore have no chance of being picked
up by screen readers.
Take for example EOG: the first part of its status bar (i.e. resolution,
weight and zoom level, which is technically the Accessible’s name)
is read by Orca (or visible in Accerciser), but the part on the right,
e.g. the image number and possibly the image’s date, isn’t.
Another example is Gedit, in which the status bar is entirely made
of (user-interactable) widgets such as dropdown buttons etc.; not
only is it entirely ignored by Orca but it’s also completely out of
reach with keyboard navigation only. (Another problem altogether.)
Reproduced with both GNOME 3.30 and GNOME 40.
Edited by Valentin Villenave