This is odd, as I made a test of that ppa before announcing it, and I was able to use Orca to interact with unity and the panel. Probably it worked due some kind of development stuff on my laptop. I will check it for the next update.
Thanks for the feedback. BR On 10/16/2011 06:04 AM, 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. >> > > -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
