Resolve the parity-ledger conflict by retaining testing's updated LibreOffice entry and Steam progress entry alongside deedra's edit-label and Mozilla records.
Verified: go test ./... -count=1, go vet ./..., parity ledger validation, and whitespace checks. Native GUI and physical speech/Braille acceptance were not run.
Thunderbird HTML messages expose readable text on containers around embedded
objects. The browse cursor previously considered only text leaves, and native
document capture omitted heading/link character counts. This skipped message
content, headings and link text. A caret event following Tab could also replace
a complete link announcement with its first character.
Capture owned hypertext child identities and native placeholder offsets on the
GLib thread, releasing native interfaces before returning. Require every child
to occupy one embedded-object character so providers exposing duplicate text
through static descendants retain their ordinary traversal.
Traverse native text ranges before and after embedded children without changing
their offset domains. Preserve character, word, line and document-boundary
navigation; normalize native caret and Braille routing positions at adjacent
embedded links. Keep the Braille cursor on the correct fragment when a parent
contributes text more than once to an assembled line.
Ignore same-input link caret echoes after focus while retaining subsequent
arrow and selection feedback. Add regression tests, extend the private Firefox
fixture, and record behavior and remaining acceptance in the parity ledger.
Validation:
- Full Go test suite with count=1; focused app/atspi/review race checks.
- go vet ./...; reader and brlapi helper builds.
- Private Firefox baseline, mixed-parent offsets and tab navigation.
- Private Chromium fragments, named links, document navigation and selection.
- Parity ledger validation and whitespace checks.
The existing Firefox tab test intermittently timed out on both an untouched
HEAD copy and the changed tree; the final run passed. The unchanged
TestRunReachesSoundStopAfterEarlierServiceStopError also failed once during
startup cancellation and passed in subsequent full-suite and race runs.
Both installed binaries were verified and the reader reloaded in its original
desktop session. The maintainer confirmed readable message text and later
working links after an earlier intermittent omission. That omission remains
untraced; repeat live acceptance and physical Braille verification remain open.
Combine relation-only edit-label capture while retaining bounded text reads,
password-target exclusion, UTF-8 output limits and menu checkability capture.
Keep both label regression fixtures and the existing foreground test dispatch.
Preserve Wine helper diagnostics and recovery documentation, and retain the
current parity records alongside the incoming edit-label entry.
Validation:
- go test ./... -count=1 -timeout=180s
- go vet ./...
- CTHULHU_NATIVE_EDIT_LABELS=1 python3 tests/native_atspi.py
- Isolated TestNativeTextLabelRelations
- python3 tests/native_atspi.py
- Parity ledger validation: 65 rows
- Python syntax and staged diff checks
Native GTK table fixtures emitted ATK warnings; all assertions passed.
Live speech and physical Braille were not retested.
Irctest exposes its settings-field labels through AT-SPI LABELLED_BY
relations while leaving the fields' accessible names empty. Cthulhu
previously captured only the name, so focus speech announced the text
role and contents without Nickname, Username, or Real name.
Resolve direct label targets in the shared native snapshot capture for
unnamed text, entry, and password-text objects. Preserve explicit names,
combine multiple label targets in relation order, and use label/static
text only when a target has no accessible name. Bound relation scans,
target queries, and UTF-8 output; release all native references and avoid
reading password targets. No application-specific handling is required.
Add an isolated GTK fixture and native regression test exercising capture
and speech formatting for single labels, multiple labels, explicit names,
unlabelled fields, and labelled password fields without password contents.
Expose the probe through CTHULHU_NATIVE_EDIT_LABELS=1 in native_atspi.py.
Record verification and installed-reader acceptance in the parity ledger.
Validation:
- go test ./... -count=1
- CTHULHU_NATIVE_EDIT_LABELS=1 python3 tests/native_atspi.py
- go vet ./...
- Build the reader and the brlapi-tagged Braille helper.
- Validate configuration and testdata/parity-ledger.csv.
- Read-only live irctest capture includes all three settings-field labels
in formatted speech.
- Install both tested binaries and replace the reader in its original
desktop session; verify service ownership and installed build hashes.
- Maintainer confirms the installed reader now speaks the field labels.
The full suite passes outside the sandbox; its socket and process checks
require access unavailable inside the sandbox. Physical Braille acceptance
remains pending. Preserve cthulhu.log outside the commit.
Record the user-local Go installation used by the working reader: install
cthulhu and cthulhu-braille together, validate the configuration, and use
--replace from the original desktop session. Explain that another session
bus can start a second reader instead of replacing the intended instance.
Document the complete five-file standalone wine-access installation and
the legacy helper path supported by the Go supervisor. Older Python
Cthulhu builds can overwrite the launcher and sidecar at that path while
leaving the native hook files behind. Such a helper can connect to D-Bus
without supplying the current native menu and editor support.
Describe recovery by reinstalling the standalone helper and reloading the
reader, including restarting Wine applications when older hook DLLs are
already loaded. Keep the source/build distinction explicit: rebuilding
the Go reader alone does not refresh wine-access.
Validation for these documentation changes:
- Reviewed the complete diff and ran git diff --check.
- Checked the documented shell commands with bash -n.
- Installed both documented Go build outputs into a temporary directory,
compared their bytes with the builds, and passed --check-config.
- Verified the installed reader, Braille helper, and all five Wine helper
files match the builds used for the restored installation.
Runtime validation during the preceding repair:
- Cthulhu internal/wine and internal/remote tests passed; Wine-specific
internal/app tests passed.
- The legacy installed helper failed the isolated 32-bit editor check;
the standalone helper passed it.
- Standalone controller, 32-bit late-attachment/restart, and hook-safety
checks passed on private displays and session buses.
- The user confirmed MUSHclient reading was restored. Physical Braille
was not checked.
These are documentation changes; the installed behavior already comes
from the existing source revisions, with no new runtime source patch.
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