[orca-list] Problems with Orca and pidgin...seems to be an at-spi2-core issue

[David Sexton]

Hi,
If you go to plugins and add the one which says append a newline to 
incomming messages... you'lll see first messages.
David
On 26/03/12 04:05, Guy Schlosser wrote:
> Hi Jakob, yes, I can confirm the issue with pidgin as far as speech 
> goes.  Whenever I press enter after typing in a message, orca does not 
> read it.  The other thing I've noticed, is that some times I cannot 
> see new messages from others, until I've already started typing 
> again.  I am however, happy to see the other accessibility bugs worked 
> out.  Hud is working in Unity 2d, and for the most part, I'm able to 
> use skype.  I'm a happy user/tester, and can't wait to recommend 
> Ubuntu Precise to my friends and family using Ubuntu, after final 
> release.  Hopefully the pidgin bug can be ironed out before final 
> release, or shortly after as perhaps a service update.
>
> Loving the progress,
>
>
> Guy
>
>
> On 03/25/2012 03:30 PM, Jakob Herrmann wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
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>> Hi,
>>
>> as I told yesterday, many accessibility issues have been fixed with
>> the recent update of Orca and related components, i.e. according to
>> Firefox. The only problem I am facing now so far: i m not able to chat
>> with Pidgin any more (without using flat review or chat history to
>> view messages, of course). Incoming messages are neither read via tts
>> nore displayed on braille. It works again when I restart orca,
>> however, restarting orca makes braille output stop completely in X on
>> my system (=another quite old issue to be checked later), so this is
>> currently no solution for me. Can somebody confirm this? Pidgin works
>> without trouble again when I downgrade at-spi2-core to stable, which
>> restores some of the bugs fixed in the latest git branch, however.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jakob
>>
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