Serious accessibility issue in Gnome 2.15.
Mike Pedersen
Michael.Pedersen at Sun.COM
Mon Jul 31 18:50:49 BST 2006
Hi Al,
>
> I'm running Edgy with Gnome 2.15, and am experiencing major weirdness
> in terms of accessibility when attempting to use it with Orca.
>
I am also running the latest ubuntu edgy with the latest orca and
finding similar problems. I've also reproduced our problems running
gnopernicus. It seems as though there is a serious problem with this
version of gnome 2.15 which is independent of orca.
>
> 1. Focus in gaim seems to be messed up. I was able to create one
> account, a freenode irc account. But now, after doing that, I can
> never seem to bring focus back to the main buddy list window, as for
> whatever reason, it doesn't seem to appear in the alt tab order.
I am also able to reproduce this problem which I actually reported at
the beginning of last week. It happens with both orca from CVS head and
gnopernicus.
> 2. Very strange things are happening in gnome terminal. Orca tracks
> live events well enough, but if I attempt to use flat review, it's all
> over the place. The read current line command seems to start at the
> top of the window, rather than at the last location of the cursor.
> Another oddity is that not all of the window is accessible via flat
> review. in other words, if my screen fills up with data, flat review
> stops before actually reaching the last line on the screen.
> 3. Open office writer is completely inaccessible. Orca won't even
> read the menu bar or the help dialog. If I attempt flat review, all I
> get is "panel".
I am also unable to read content with openoffice with this version of
the desktop. If this is a general desktop problem and not related to
the particular edgy we are running this will be a serious regression
from gnome 2.14.
Mike
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