Please test Edgy with AT-SPI turned on

Henrik Nilsen Omma henrik at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 3 13:20:19 BST 2006


The Gnome assistive technology (AT) framework is probably one of the 
least tested items we have in main, simply because almost nobody ever 
runs it. It has odd quirks that come out in interaction with other 
programs (as probing and poking other programs is what it does).

I've listed the currently know issues on a wiki page here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Testing/AT-SPI

So I'd like to ask you to please try switching on AT support from time 
time in Edgy over the next few months. It may be when you are about 
upgrade a version of Firefox, OpenOffice, Gaim, Evolution or whatever. 
Just have AT-SPI loaded as you go about your normal testing of it.

To acctivate go to System -> Preferences -> Assistive Technology 
Preferences and tick the top box (you then need to log out and back in). 
You don't need to run a screen reader, magnifier or on-screen keyboard, 
the framework will be enough. If you want to see what access information 
is provided by the host applications you can install and run 'at-poke'.

Hopefully we can flush out a few more crasher bugs before Edgy is out.

Thanks!

- Henrik




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