Re: Serious accessibility issue in Gnome 2.15.
Hi All: I was finally able to do some testing with this. I'll confirm that none of these are Orca bugs. We do care, however, about the overall accessibility of the platform. So, we'll dig into these problems more and follow up with the appropriate teams. 1. Focus in gaim seems to be messed up. I was able to create one account, a freenode irc account. But now, after doing that, I can never seem to bring focus back to the main buddy list window, as for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to appear in the alt tab order. My experiences show that GAIM will come up without the buddy list and you need to press the gaim icon in the panel to show it. I've tried various ways to get to the icon from the keyboard, but I cannot seem to do so (BAD for people who cannot use the mouse). So...I resorted to clicking on it, which brings up a menu allowing me to show the buddy list. Once I was able to make the buddy list visible, I found that Orca seemed to do just fine with it. Note that this seems to be only with GAIM 2.0.0beta versus GAIM 1.5.1. 2. Very strange things are happening in gnome terminal. Orca tracks live events well enough, but if I attempt to use flat review, it's all over the place. The read current line command seems to start at the top of the window, rather than at the last location of the cursor. Another oddity is that not all of the window is accessible via flat review. in other words, if my screen fills up with data, flat review stops before actually reaching the last line on the screen. I found that something broke with gnome-terminal's implementation of getTextAtOffset: it's giving us very wrong and very incorrect values for GNOME 2.15.90 versus GNOME 2.14. As such, it's difficult to know where text is on the screen as well as getting the text for the line where the cursor is. We will dig into this more this week and file a bug with the appropriate component (gnome-terminal, vte, ...) when we learn more. 3. Open office writer is completely inaccessible. Orca won't even read the menu bar or the help dialog. If I attempt flat review, all I get is panel. I dug into this some more, and there appears to be some binary incompatibility between the AT-SPI implementation used by OOo and what is in GNOME 2.15.90. We've brought this to the OOo team's attention and will be following up more with them this week. Note that this may or may not be an OOo problem (e.g., it could be an inadvertent AT-SPI incompatibility). Thanks! Will ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: Serious accessibility issue in Gnome 2.15.
On 7 Aug 2006, at 17:06, Willie Walker wrote: My experiences show that GAIM will come up without the buddy list and you need to press the gaim icon in the panel to show it. I've tried various ways to get to the icon from the keyboard, but I cannot seem to do so (BAD for people who cannot use the mouse). A long-standing bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223 Do you have GAIM set up to start up in Away mode, by any chance? That will cause GAIM to start with the buddy list hidden IIRC. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Re: setting up dectalk
Hi, Michael. After extracting the Dectalk runtime files cd to the Dectalk directory and do a ./install which will ask you for your product ID. Also you need to edit the *.sh files to make sure everything is going to /usr in Ubuntu. As for making Orca recognize Dectalk go to the Gnome ftp site and download the source for gnome-speech, and compile it. As for the UK Dectalk as you have baughten the US version that is the only Dectalk you will get. For multilingual Dectalk you need to buy the Multilingual version. Fonix can help you find out which version you would need for UK English. MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: When I have uncompressed the Linux Runtime file for the software Dectalk, what do I need to do after that or is there a text file or something giving directions as to how to build it so it is recognised by my Linux distro? Also does the US Dectalk Software Synthesiser come with both US and UK English by default or do you have to somehow have to download a separate module? ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
OSX Leopard a11y sneak peek
Might be of interest to some: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/accessibility.html -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
Gnopernicus, brltty and debian
I am using the unstable version of Debian and kernel version 2.6, brltty 3.7.2-3.1 and gnopernicus 1.0.5-1. I am getting no response from the braille display when I type startx other than screen in not in text mode. The braille display is an Alva abt34d which works fine with brltty at the console. Any ideas of what might be wrong and how to solve it? I followed the instructions on the brltty site for setting up gnome. Tom Masterson ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
