Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility related questions
Dear users and developers, Would some body try to answer me the following accessibility related question? In The future official Ubuntu 11.10 release, how will be solved The navigation in side The installed applications menu? In The Ubuntu 11.04 and in The earlyer releases, user could press ALT+F1 and special applications menu have been recalled. Will be The similar keyboardshortcut awailable also in The official Ubuntu 11.10? Or it will be awailable in Vinux? I would like to thank MR Yelavich for his exhaustic, very complex and intensive programmers work. I would like to thank him very much, that he want to develope Vinux build scripts, so Vinux will be officially builded so no utilities such as Remastersys will be necessary to use. Very well done. I would like to thank MR Yelavich and Canonical LTD for bringing newest software and kernel drivers to every Ubuntu release. I know, that some of visually impaired users may be sad, that new features are causing accessibility issues. But i think, that it is very positive, that visually impaired users can be engaged to The development of new user interfaces such as Unity. And new display managers such as LighttGDM. Very important positive fact is, that there is even ammazing proggrammer, who is bringing QT support for us by developing The bridge between At-spi and QT libraryes. My question is: How i can simply access The run application dialog window in The latest Ubuntu daily build to run terminal and to try some QT based applications atleast by using live CD mode? I can not very probably run The terminal by typing gnome-terminal If there is no chance to run terminal like in earlyer Gnome releases, and if run applications dialog is not accessible by using keyboard shortcut, i AM suggesting to atleast support this hodkey. Or next idea is adding all applications links to The desktop, because desktop is accessible by Orca. So If applications menu is not accessible, I AM suggesting You to add applications linksto The desktop. Because it will be very probably much more easyer than to modifi Unity or Gnome-shell. What do You think about my idea? New accessibility algorithms can be awailable by Ubuntu updates. Fortunately, Orca and At-spi is stable and also speech-dispatcher and Pulseaudio are working excellently, so there is nothink annoing for visually impaired users. I think, that it will be good idea to solve some complex accessibility related issues to make Vinux distro, which will combine new and older modules to provide best awailable accessibility. So i AM recommending YOu to add applications shortcuts list to The desktop in The live CD mode, when user is activating Orca profile. So sighted users will not be surprised by The new Canonical LTD approach. What do You think about it? Also Run application link could be awailable in The desktop. If there is no choice to make The keyboard shortcut for this task -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Unity is relatively goodlyaccessible
Dear users and developers, Thank's to works of developers and advanced users throught out The world, The unity interface is much more accessible, than i have thinked before i have tried todays Ubuntu 11.10 daily build. By pressing ALT+F1, user can hear The names of buttons representing installed applications, running applications with administration privileges is also supported ammazingly and Orca can be used with those applications. Unfortunately, i AM not able to locate The Update manager and run application dialog window. So please, will be Ubuntu updater included or this tool will not be awailable and users will have to perform Ubuntu updates by using apt-get dist upgrade? There is Ubuntu One, Ubuntu software center, but i can not locate Synaptics package manager. But Unity is working and attention. Orca is able to cooperate with included version of Mozilla Firefox, but now, user must use The Orca configuration for Firefox and user must check The button grab focus on objects when navigating. This button is awailable in The Firefox specific Orca settings in The firefox TAB. So for now, my biggest issue is, that i can not activate The run application dialog box and i can not locate The terminal atleast inside The list of installed applications. The name of module is very probably Application launcher, which is displaing The applications list after pressing ALT+F1. My last question for all Orca users is. Do You think, that it is sad, that Orca is not supporting The live regions announcement mechanishm presented in The older Orca releases? in Orca 2.32.0? So users could hear The messages of ARIA live regions not only when Orca automatically have detected those messages, but user could hear one of The checked ARIA live regions messages by pressing ORCA+F2, F3. So Orca +F2 have announced The message presented by The second ARIA live region, ORCA+F3 have announced The previously spoken message from The thirt ARIa live region, ETC. Now, ORCA is able to automatically speak The ARIA live region, but user can not repeat The previously spoken messages, which have been assigned to one of The ARIA live regions. According to my opinion, it is sad, because ARIA live regions are very often used even in The modern chat related WEB sites, some WEB pages are using ARIA live regions for displaiing The ADS, state television WEB pages can use those regions for displaiing tips for one of The important news, ETC. But Orca is very stable, Pulseaudio is not causing issues, at-spi is working excellently. So i think, that everybody of us can lookingforward to official, stable Ubuntu release. I think, that there is time to release RC version of Ubuntu 11.10. I think, that this will be done in The end of next week. BUt it is only my personal analysis, it will depend on Canonical LTD. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
