Please test Edgy with AT-SPI turned on

Joel Bryan Juliano joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 13:27:49 BST 2006


When I run orca, I can't understand what it's trying to say because the
voice is too fast.

On 9/3/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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