Initial impressions of 11.10

[Robert Cole]

Hello.

I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 via Wubi on my laptop about an hour ago, 
and I have not used the a11y PPA. I was able to access the wireless icon 
normally, if that is of any help to you. I find that it is actually 
working wonderfully using Orca.

On 10/15/2011 09:04 PM, 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.
>>
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