[orca-list] workspace switcher is not accissible with Orca

[Alex Midence]

I can see value in it if you have more than 4 workspaces.  On my Lucid
Vinux installation, I got myself up to 12 workspaces.  I stopped using
more than about five of them because it was too much of a pain to get
to, say workspace 11 or something like that.  Gnome and Unity make
workspaces a bit hard to mess with.  I haven't bothered doing that
ever since.  KDE, on the other hand, is absolutely fantastic for
multiple workspaces incorporating the function keys as hotkeys for
jumping to particular ones and making it extremely easy to add or
remove how many workspaces you use.  I can't wait till all its a11y
issues are worked out as I think it more adequately fits my personal
pc user style than Gnome does.  If I didn't use a screen reader, I'm
sure I'd've used it from the beginning.

Alex M



alex M

On 5/24/12, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO, I'm not sure how important it is to get the workspace switcher
> accessible. I can't imagine it's easier to use the workspace switcher
> than it is to use the hot keys to navigate around your workspaces.
> Although maybe the workspace switcher has some other features I'm
> ignorant of.
>
> In my vanilla install of Ubuntu Precise with Unity 2D, I start off with
> four workspaces. They're laid out in a grid, so I can get to them with
> the four control+alt+arrow-keys. The left and right arrow keys will only
> take me between two of the workspaces. I have to use the up and down
> arrow keys to get to the other two.
>
> On 24/05/12 01:36, Milton wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Precise and got Orca 3.4.1 running in
>> Unity 2D.
>> With Control_Alt_arrow-left/right I switch to another workspace.
>> I like to work in 3 or more workspaces.
>> With Alt_F1 and down-arrow I found the workspace switcher but Orca only
>> says pane and nothing else. With the flat review Orca go silent. Can you
>> confirm? It will be very helpfull if the workspace switcher is
>> accessible with Orca.
>> Milton
>>
>>
>
>
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