I feel like the OP's question is a bit different.
My understanding of these devices is that they become full(er) desktops
when plugged in to external hardware. At this point, would existing
desktop APIs take over and grant a desktop-like level of a11y, even if
they don't work in touch mode?
FWIW, the upgrade went fine under 13.04, no problems whatsoever. That's
my biggest criticism with only making LTS releases accessible. The
accessibility infrastructure moves on and improves, and browsers rapidly
acquire new and game-changing capabilities like Web RTC/Web Audio at a
rapid rate.
On 10/30/2013 11:19 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
If there were more resources, more effort could be put into supporting
interim releases. Luke
I agree. It's a shame that Canonical is so focused on replacing GNOME
with Unity, replacing Wayland with Mir, building its own cloud
deployment solution,
On 01/07/2013 02:51 PM, kendell clark wrote:
ouch. Pms, maybe?
Nope, just my zero tact and diplomacy rearing its head. If people like
their choices, then great. More power to them. But I have a short fuse
with being criticized for daring to question the status quo, or for
implying that
or non existent,
making it difficult for anyone not familiar with gnome to dive in.
On 01/07/2013 02:51 PM, kendell clark wrote:
ouch. Pms, maybe?
On 01/07/2013 02:49 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
First, please confirm which versions of Firefox and Orca I am using.
Since you know so much about my
Great ideas and thoughts here, folks.
To put my words in context, I've used Linux since Slackware '96 which,
as its name implies, was released in 1996. I started using GNOME
accessibility in the Gnopernicus days, and at the moment it is my
full-time operating system of choice.
However, my
approach as a
reason not to take up the fight yourself.
On 01/06/2013 08:21 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Great ideas and thoughts here, folks.
To put my words in context, I've used Linux since Slackware '96 which,
as its name implies, was released in 1996. I started using GNOME
accessibility
this discussion seems to be
much broader than just the Ubuntu Phone OS announcement.
On 01/04/2013 10:50 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Here is Jono's announcement of Ubuntu for Phones:
http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/01/02/announcing-ubuntu-for-phones/
My comment there appears to still be around, but I find
.
Kind regards.
On 01/02/2013 03:50 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
I would like to organize some sort of advocacy effort to get
Canonical to take accessibility more seriously. I understand the
limitations of the current accessibility team, but if we look back
at the state of computing two years ago vs
I would like to organize some sort of advocacy effort to get Canonical
to take accessibility more seriously. I understand the limitations of
the current accessibility team, but if we look back at the state of
computing two years ago vs. today, any reasonable person would agree
that telling a
Normally I'd stay away from development releases, but apparently the
newest Orca requires Python 3.3, and I'm experiencing some issues in the
Orca shipped with 12.10 that make it difficult to use (it doesn't seem
to respond to the command line option that's supposed to kill it, hangs
fairly
On 12/21/2012 11:55 AM, Andy B. wrote:
thought 13.04 was a LTS release, but either way, when I tried to
install 13.04 a few hours ago, the installer was completely
inaccessible. In fact, it's so bad, that the try/install window is
100% inaccessible. Pressing ctrl+s does start orca, but alt+tab
On 12/21/2012 11:32 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
As stated many times now by the developer that maintains accessibility
for Ubuntu: It is
The question was not what is recommended/expected to happen, and I
think I was fairly clear in stating that. The question is what is
happening in the real
I'm under Ubuntu 12.10 and am encountering an odd access issue.
I acknowledge that 12.10 isn't intended to be as accessible as LTS
releases, but this is an odd enough corner case that it seems should work.
If I pull up the LibreOffice Writer to view a Word document, I can't
seem to open any
Got bitten by this last night.
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my girlfriend's computer, and practically
the first thing we did on the new system was to hit up
http://chrome.google.com to download the latest 32-bit Chrome. We had it
open in Software Center automatically, but it failed to install due
, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:28:01PM EST, Nolan Darilek wrote:
How do I debug this?
I get that accessibility of 12.10 isn't guaranteed, but it seems
silly that it should work fine, then break utterly with no apparent
cause.
I'd be interested to know if this problem regularly appears after a restart
This is such an odd problem and I don't know what caused it or how to
solve it.
I put away my laptop in the morning, literally just woke it up in the
evening, and the Orca key doesn't work. No Orca commands (t for time,
review, etc.) do anything. Caps lock isn't treated like it would be
Wondering if anyone else has seen these in their .xsession-errors?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/input_event.py, line 509,
in processInputEvent
consumed = self.function(script, inputEvent)
File
As of a couple days ago, Orca stopped launching at my login screen. I
don't immediately see anything in /var/log/lightdm when I grep for orca,
other than an error from Oct. 11. Nothing from my most recent launches.
I'm wondering if whatever configuration file that launches Orca on login
might
Does anyone know the 12.10 accessibility story? I'm about to do a fresh
install, and am wondering if I should go with 12.04.01, or with a
version that will be released in a bit over a month.
I'm particularly concerned about the Unity2D deprecation, and the
abandonment of QT in Unity3D in
On 09/13/2012 11:49 AM, Andy B. wrote:
It looks pretty good so far, but the menu in Unity that had the messages
apps such as mail/pidgin is no longer accessible. From what I could tell,
this is my only problem aside from waiting on a voxin update.
Does this mean the entire menubar, including
Ugh! We get to this point in every release, where there are patches for
a whole bunch of issues that take forever to land. Meanwhile, testers
can't examine the new release to see what new issues were revealed after
the fixing of the old. So there's no accessibility *test* cycle, just a
bunch
was supposed to not land broken this cycle, but I
can't imagine that orca or onboard feature in the pre-landing test
scripts. Are these scripts published?
Alan.
On 06/03/12 14:04, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Ugh! We get to this point in every release, where there are patches
for a whole bunch of issues
On 03/06/2012 09:50 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
Much as I hate to say it, this is what I have fought for at UDS for
quite a while now. Every 6 months, the rhetoric is the same.
Accessibility is very important. We will make sure it can be tested
during the Alpha testing stages! We can not have
I thought I'd post to Brainstorm about this, so I wrote a letter. Only,
the account creation process uses an ASCII CAPTCHA with no audio
equivalent. I can't even run that past WebVisum.
I'll figure something else out, I guess. Ugh this is disheartening. I
was so looking forward to a 12.04
What accessibility issues still remain in 11.10? I remember writing
about some back in November or so--issues reading menus, notifications
not being read, etc. I understand the notification issue still remains.
What else is unresolved?
I'm on 11.04 and am starting to encounter some majorly
I can no longer reach the applet bar and don't know what might have
changed. Running 11.04. I am aware that Unity/11.10 resolves this, but
I'm not ready to take on the other accessibility issues it introduces.
When I ctrl-alt-tab to the top bar, I can arrow between Firefox and the
Are you freakin' serious?!?
I was just thinking the other day about how Mozilla didn't seem to care
much about Firefox Linux accessibility. As a blind Android developer and
user, I find it difficult to impossible to use any of the advanced
features on Google's web-based market. Similarly, Google
No longer supporting? I'd say they *are* being supported if every other
application on my GNOME 3 system is identified as accessible. There is
definitely a way to detect the availability of accessibility, and a way
that is supported by the platform developers.
And I'd hardly call something that
just installed Ubuntu 11.10 via Wubi on my laptop about an hour ago,
and I have not used the a11y PPA. I was able to access the wireless
icon normally, if that is of any help to you. I find that it is
actually working wonderfully using Orca.
On 10/15/2011 09:04 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Oh
Just slapped this onto an old netbook I'm trying to revive. Here are my
initial impressions.
I love the new way to run accessibility on the live CD. Great! I just
wish it also worked from the instance that gets run when you choose to
try without installing. Running manually works, but
. This seems like it might be a regression in the a11y PPA.
Thanks.
On 10/15/2011 10:46 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Just slapped this onto an old netbook I'm trying to revive. Here are
my initial impressions.
I love the new way to run accessibility on the live CD. Great! I just
wish it also
Thanks for the post.
As a heads-up, unless I'm missing something, the videos aren't
accessible under Ubuntu 11.04 in Firefox. Flash objects just appear as
objects that occasionally snag focus and generally don't allow keyboard
interaction.
On 10/13/2011 08:56 AM, Penelope Stowe wrote:
Hi
OK, figured out how to get classic GNOME back accessibly. I discovered
that the menubar normally reachable via F10 has some extra options, and
under one such I found the system configuration tool. Under that I found
the login settings screen, where I switched back to classic GNOME. I
don't
Just upgraded to Natty today and am having some issues:
1. I was switched to Unity despite its being somewhat less accessible,
and can't find an accessible way to switch back. There appear to be
unlabeled controls on the login screen, including one that speaks
null. How do I switch back to
Hello. I just bought a new laptop. Unfortunately, nothing I do gets the
installation CD to come up talking, so I'm thinking that I'll be taking
it into the store to have them do the install for me. To simplify
matters, though, I'm wondering if it is possible to add/activate the
blindness
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Not sure if this is known, but I wanted to at least report it.
The other day I downloaded the Maverick B1 AMD64 installer to place on a
new computer. I booted successfully with speech and clicked on the
installer launcher. It asked a few questions,
Seems to now work for me as well. I just tried everything that formerly
reported as inaccessible, and everything seems to work just fine. Then
again, I haven't tried multiple reboots to rule out simple luck, but
considering something always reported as inaccessible before, this would
seem to be a
This affects me as well, in ways similar to those described above.
I'll try using the custom PPA later today, as I can't afford to reboot
now, but killing and restarting gnome-settings-daemon didn't work for
me. Should I have had the new at-spi packages installed when I did that?
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Race
OK, another question. The login settings dialog may be completely
accessible, but your instructions include a series of menus to traverse,
which at this time are not accessible. What is the command line name for
this tool?
--
Race condition at session startup sometimes prevents applications from
OK, answered my own question, gdmadmin.
Interestingly enough, now my desktop appears accessible while the panel,
run dialog, etc. are still not. Before, the desktop was also
inaccessible.
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Just took the plunge to Lucid today and am mostly impressed. It is
hands-down the fastest release yet WRT speech. Furthermore, I'm glad
that Thunderbird 3.0 is finally included, as I was running from the
Mozilla daily PPA to get accessible 64-bit builds, which wasn't ideal
for several reasons.
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Yes, I can definitely confirm it. This same behavior also exists in the
applet that lets me lock the screen, log out, etc.--not sure of its name.
Has anyone filed a bug on this? I've just been living with it, but
you're right, it is more important in
Sorry, I meant to reply to the list but realize that I must not have.
I recommended deja-dup to the OP a while back. I've used this
successfully for a few weeks now and it's a rather nice app, somewhat
like TimeMachine for OS X but with a bit less customizability (I.e. I'm
not sure you can do
Hello, wondering if anyone else has seen this and if there's a fix?
Sometimes notifications via notify-osd speak fine. I've actually come to
rely upon these for various bits of functionality. Since I can't just
glance over to my IM contacts window, for instance, I use these
notifications to
what you can to help.
Regards
Luke
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Anyone using it regularly? Lots of folks not using accessibility seem to
be having good luck with it, so I'm thinking of making the upgrade. How
is it from an accessibility perspective? And are there any more
potential audio breaking changes planned?
Thanks.
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I have a few issues with the language here. Specifically:
On 06/29/2009 10:56 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
Vinux, previously based on Ubuntu, has been forced
to switch future development to Debian branches.
No one forced anyone to do anything. That was a choice made by the
Vinux developer. A choice
On 05/31/2009 04:37 PM, Chris Meredith wrote:
Wow. I'm getting ... actually no audio whatsoever, regardless of what
I do, with this edition of Ubuntu. I'm beginning to wonder if I
didn't maybe download the server edition in error.
Can you at least tell if GNOME has launched? If so then
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Dangling symlink installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358690
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: totem-mozilla
The latest Jaunty totem-mozilla package installs a dangling symlink;
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so
Perhaps this is actually a totem bug, I'm just reporting the package
that installed the broken link.
ProblemType: Bug
No crashes, but whereas MP3s used to play in the browser, they're now
either passed off to a separate totem process, or I get an alert about
not having the needed plugins. I think the former is under 3.0 and the
latter is 3.5B but I'm not entirely sure. I'm also not the only one with
this issue;
This is tested and works here.
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Incorrect file paths for icons played via spd-conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314185
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Public bug reported:
Under python-speechd 0.6.70-ubuntu2 and Intrepid, the paths for files
played via spd-conf are incorrect. Looks like the directory where the
files are found needs to end in a /, because the last subdirectory and
filename are run together. For instance, see this transcript:
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