Text in the "Select your timezone screen" is read as "Blank" instead of reading the characters
What was expected?
The actual text should be read when the text is navigated with the keyboard while the screen reader is on.
Steps to reproduce
Boot the installer ISO
After it plays the welcome sound, press Super+Alt+S to turn on the screen reader
After partitioning and the Install screen, there is a timezone screen.
The text widgets are identified as "Location text" and "Timezone text"
Although the widgets have text already, each character is read as "Blank" when using the arrow key to navigate the text.
Additional context
20230920 Ubuntu Desktop Mantic ISO
This is a difficult page to handle with a screen reader. The Legacy installer at least can read the text in this text box. The test case in the ISO tracker for the Legacy installer currently says "Select country either by typing in the name of the country or city or timezone (WARNING: time zones are not read by the screen-reader; the default should be fine)"
So our current behavior is to hope that the install is done with internet access and the Internet geolocation lookup service is good enough to get the right time zone. It is possible for the user to use the Settings app after install to change their timezone.
What happened?
Text in the "Select your timezone screen" is read as "Blank" instead of reading the characters
What was expected?
The actual text should be read when the text is navigated with the keyboard while the screen reader is on.
Steps to reproduce
Additional context
20230920 Ubuntu Desktop Mantic ISO
This is a difficult page to handle with a screen reader. The Legacy installer at least can read the text in this text box. The test case in the ISO tracker for the Legacy installer currently says "Select country either by typing in the name of the country or city or timezone (WARNING: time zones are not read by the screen-reader; the default should be fine)"
So our current behavior is to hope that the install is done with internet access and the Internet geolocation lookup service is good enough to get the right time zone. It is possible for the user to use the Settings app after install to change their timezone.