Hello.
I 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, and something else I noticed just now that's probably worth
mentioning:
I installed Unity from the accessibility PPA. Before doing that, I'm
pretty sure the extra, non-app menu items in the bar spoke (I.e. for
wireless/network control, sound, etc.) Now after upgrading they no
longer speak. 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 worked from the instance that gets run when you choose
to try without installing. Running manually works, but consistency
would rule.
Had some issues with the install, but those weren't accessibility
related.
My new installation didn't come up talking. I had to run Orca
manually, enable accessibility and log back out and in. My
expectation was that it'd come up talking as soon as I logged in.
Along similar lines, Orca doesn't run automatically. I have to start
it manually. This despite my impression that the screen reader toggle
in the accessibility settings screen is enabled. I can't seem to find
a "Run Orca on startup" option in Orca's preferences anymore.
Unity seems quite keyboard accessible. Going to need time to get used
to the many new commands.
My timezone is incorrect and I can't figure out how to reset it. In
Time and Date I see a text area containing the location New York, but
I can't figure a way to set this to anything local to me. I tried
entering "Chicago" since that's usually the timezone I choose, but
that doesn't seem to take.
Lots of widgets seem to be misrepresented as checkboxes. In
particular, many menu items appear this way.
I'm not clear on how to navigate some of the panels in Unity 2D.
They're also said to be inaccessible even though I did get some
feedback from Orca at one point.
All notifications speak "Notification: notify-osd". I have to look at
.cache/notify-osd.log to see what I missed.
While this is a long list of negatives, I'm quite impressed at how
accessible things are after such a major change. I probably won't put
11.10 on my main machine for now, but I'm enjoying playing with it on
the netbook.
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