I am now running the latest packages, including the new dbus, and accessibility in general is not broken, but I can reproduce this problem. Whats more, I saw a thread about this on an upstrea a11y mailing list the other day, although I hadn't given it any thought till now.
The bug is not present in at-spi2-core 2.9.5, so I am in the process of bisecting the git tree to find the commit that causes this bug, and will act accordingly. I will probably revert the commit for now, and work with upstream to sort out a proper fix. Thanks for the report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to at-spi2-core in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217757 Title: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Status in “at-spi2-core” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Stock Saucy + gnome3-team ppa ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gedit 3.8.3-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Aug 28 10:24:40 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/at-spi2-core/+bug/1217757/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp