Steps to reproduce

1. Open desktop client
2. Open screen reader. E.g: orca
3. Focus the desktop client window
4. Nothing from the screen reader ⚠️

Findings

The problem seems to be how the client is built. The client is built using the craft build system which uses the qtbase library from the kde cache. The cached qtbase doesn't include the necessary a11y implementations/modules.

The fix would be to build the client with qtbase that has necessary a11y modules. When using craft, we need to build the libs/qt6/qtbase from source instead of using from cache. And while build the qtbase, make sure to confirm that ATSPI is found and Accessibility feature says yes

Qt Gui:
  Accessibility .......................... yes

check the build:

strings ./main/linux-gcc-x86_64/lib/libQt6Gui.so | grep -i QSpiAccessibleBridge

Expected behavior

Screen reader reads the contents of desktop client window

Actual behavior

Screen reader is silent when focusing the desktop client window

Setup

• Your operating system: Ubuntu 24.04
• Client version:

OpenCloud 3.0.3.2073 [72fe8f]
Libraries Qt 6.9.2, OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025
Using virtual files plugin: off
OS: ubuntu-6.8.0-106-generic (build arch: x86_64, CPU arch: x86_64)
QPA: xcb