Arch Linux

Description:
It appears that at-spi does not install the gconf schema for at-spi when it is installed. The result of this is that the logout and shutdown dialogs appear inaccessible to assistive technologies (eg. orca will not speak the content of those dialog boxes).

Users can fix this by installing the gconf schema manually, however it should really be done by default as most other distributions have solved it (IE. I do not think its an upstream bug). The commands which fix this are:
export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/at-spi.schemas

I think that needs to be added to the post install script.

Additional info:
* package version(s) at-spi 1.30.0-1 is what I have used to report this but it seemed to be present in earlier versions.



Steps to reproduce:
1. Run orca in gnome (this may require going through the orca initial setup questions and then logging out and back in)
2. Go to logout or shutdown in the system menu
3. press tab to move focus between buttons in the dialog
Expected: Orca will announce the button you land on
Actual: Orca says nothing

Try installing the gconf schema as described above and try again, everything behaves as expected.

While I talk of using orca in this report, I believe it would affect anything relying on at-spi, and so other assistive technologies will be affected.