[orca-list] any review for Orca with Ubuntu precise beta 2

[Krishnakant Mane]

This is very serious and I think Canonical is really letting us down.
It seems they are not as serious about accessibility as they used to be.
I won't download the beta2 in this case.
Actually I am in some rural part of India and bandwidth is not good 
enough for downloading the ISO.
That's why I asked for the review and if this is what it comes to then I 
think I and many others will have to give up Ubuntu unless these crutial 
things are taken care of.
I guess many blind users had infact liked Unity2d and were prepared to 
shift.
But if accessibility is really broken to this extent then I wonder what 
to expect.
I have a daily build of Ubuntu 12.04 on a pen drive and it really works 
so well that I was hoping to use a very accessible desktop from this summer.
Hope this is taken care of soon before the release.
It gives me a feeling that this is a very trivial issue for the 
developers of Unity to solve, because it was all working perfectly just 
a few days back.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 30/03/12 20:32, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried the Precise beta 2, and could not get the thing to use 
> Unity-2d. When I boot the thing, the login prompt drums never sound, 
> and I never hear the music one is supposed to hear on the Gnome 
> session start.  I can start orca manually.  Once I have orca running, 
> I discover that the 'alt-f1' keystroke is silent, and there is no 
> apparent navigation in the launcher.  A press of 'alt-tab' is also 
> silent.  Focus does switch apps, but there is no way to know until I 
> release the keys, and, even then, orca may get confused or go silent.  
> The 'alt-f2' keyboard shortcut for 'show run dialogue' is disabled, as 
> shown in the gnome-control-center 'keyboard' page.  I think a press of 
> 'alt+f2' actually puts focus in the heads-up display, and my typing 
> 'orca' into the search area just happened to start the app. Enabling 
> the 'run' dialogue, in keyboard shortcuts, does not help.  So, I 
> opened  terminal on my flash drive session, and edited 
> '/var/lib/AccountsService/users/ubuntu' and 
> '/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf', changing 'ubuntu' to 'ubuntu-2d', as I 
> could do on an installed system, and tried a reboot.  This results in 
> a system that will not boot.  True to form, for Canonical, they broke 
> accessibility for this up-coming release.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
>
>> Has any one tryed the latest Ubuntu precise beta2?
>> I remember that people had reported Unity 2d having issues with Orca 
>> not reading out the menus with alt + f1 and the launcher?
>> Is it a reality, did somme one manage to reproduce the issue?
>> if yes, what is the current status?
>> Happy hacking.
>> Krishnakant.
>>
>>
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