Unity and Orca?

[Piñeiro]

From: Luke Yelavich <themuso at ubuntu.com>

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:57:48AM EST, Dave Hunt wrote:
>>   Does anyone have experience running the new Unity interface and the 
>> version of Orca that ships as part of 10.10?
> 
> I tried using orca with unity a week or so back, and I can tell you that it doesn't work, for the vast majority of the unity shell. Such pieces as indicator menus for sound/session, and network manager are accessible, however you can only get to them with the mouse. If you were to open nautilus, you can navigate files/do whatever you can do normally within that nautilus window. Shortcut keys for opening the terminal still exist, and the terminal is accessible, but thats it.

Orca are working there because they are not Unity itself.

> Unity uses the clutter toolkit, which is getting accessibility support upstream, but the version in maverick has no accessibility support. I am not sure what the plans are for Natty.

After a quick check [1], maverick is shiphing clutter 1.2.4 It doesn't
have still the accessibility support (cally) integrated. As you said,
you would require to use the upstream clutter version, or try to load
cally.

Anyway, as in the case on gnome-shell, having clutter with
accessibility support is just the first step. It would be also
required to load the atk-bridge module. More information in the
equivalent gnome-shell bug [2]

[1] http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/247461
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612599

BR

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