[g-a-devel] Exposing masked strings for password fields to accessibility

2012-08-10 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
Hi, I recently found out that the text displayed in instances of GtkEntry with 'visibility' set to FALSE (meant to be used for passwords mainly) is not being exposed at all to Assistive Technologies like Orca, which are always getting and empty string, due to code snippets like this one in gtkentr

Re: [g-a-devel] Exposing masked strings for password fields to accessibility

2012-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Sanchez Prada, le Fri 10 Aug 2012 12:43:58 +0200, a écrit : > However, I understand some might see the fact of exposing the number of > masked characters as a security issue, so that's why I'm asking for > feedback here now. If the visual rendering provides that information, atk should provi