orca as the default in edgy

[Mike Pedersen]

Hi Luke,
> If Orca is now the default in 2.16, have the appropriate modifications 
> been made to the assistive technologies control panel to use orca rather 
> than gnopernicus?
>
>   
Yes, so far as I know, these patches have now been applied as of beta 2 
last week. 
> There are also the current accessibility issues that seem to exist with 
> gnome. I haven't checked for the last few days, but gnome, particularly 
> gnome-panel is unusable for me with accessibility turned on.
>   


The Orca team is working with the community to resolve the 
gnome-terminal and openoffice problems.  I have been able to use gnome 
panel with out problems.  Rather, it seems at least as good as it was in 
gnome 2.14. 
Mike