Unity is relatively goodlyaccessible

Piñeiro apinheiro at igalia.com
Mon Oct 10 18:05:25 UTC 2011


Hi Janusz,

about the issues with the application launcher and others, you could
read this mail that I sent some weeks ago to the list:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-accessibility/2011-September/005403.html

BR

On 10/07/2011 02:20 PM, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
> Dear users and developers,
>     Thank's to works of developers and advanced users throught out The
> world, The unity interface is much more accessible, than i have
> thinked before i have tried todays Ubuntu 11.10 daily build. By
> pressing ALT+F1, user can hear The names of buttons representing
> installed applications, running applications with administration
> privileges is also supported ammazingly and Orca can be used with
> those applications. Unfortunately, i AM not able to locate The Update
> manager and run application dialog window.
> So please, will be Ubuntu updater included or this tool will not be
> awailable and users will have to perform Ubuntu updates by using
> apt-get dist upgrade?
> There is Ubuntu One, Ubuntu software center, but i can not locate
> Synaptics package manager.
> But Unity is working and attention.
> Orca is able to cooperate with included version of Mozilla Firefox,
> but now, user must use The Orca configuration for Firefox and user
> must check The button grab focus on objects when navigating. This
> button is awailable in The Firefox specific Orca settings in The
> firefox TAB.
> So for now, my biggest issue is, that i can not activate The run
> application dialog box and i can not locate The terminal atleast
> inside The list of installed applications.
> The name of module is very probably Application launcher, which is
> displaing The applications list after pressing ALT+F1.
> My last question for all Orca users is.
> Do You think, that it is sad, that Orca is not supporting The live
> regions announcement mechanishm presented in The older Orca releases?
> in Orca 2.32.0? So users could hear The messages of ARIA live regions
> not only when Orca automatically have detected those messages, but
> user could hear one of The checked ARIA live regions messages by
> pressing ORCA+F2, F3. So Orca +F2 have announced The message presented
> by The second ARIA live region, ORCA+F3 have announced The previously
> spoken message from The thirt ARIa live region, ETC.
> Now, ORCA is able to automatically speak The ARIA live region, but
> user can not repeat The previously spoken messages, which have been
> assigned to one of The ARIA live regions.
> According to my opinion, it is sad, because ARIA live regions are very
> often used even in The modern chat related WEB sites, some WEB pages
> are using ARIA live regions for displaiing The ADS, state television
> WEB pages can use those regions for displaiing tips for one of The
> important news, ETC.
> But Orca is very stable, Pulseaudio is not causing issues, at-spi is
> working excellently. So i think, that everybody of us can
> lookingforward to official, stable Ubuntu release. I think, that there
> is time to release RC version of Ubuntu 11.10. I think, that this will
> be done in The end of next week.
> BUt it is only my personal analysis, it will depend on Canonical LTD.
>
>


-- 
Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias




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