On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:17:49 -0400 Chris Hofstader <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > js: I'm interested by this. I was under the impression that gnome > > put a lot of effort into usability and accessibility, and epiphany > > is gnomes browser. kk > > > cdh: GNOME accessibility has had a lot invested in it but, in some > places, it it is entirely broken. Most of this work happened in the > Sun access technology group which has been disbanded by lay offs and > assigning its members to other tasks within Sun. > > cdh: Applications that run on GNOME may not have even the default > accessibility as, if they were built for an earlier version of GNOME, > they won't contain access to the accessibility API. Epiphany seems to > be one such program that is much older than GNOME accessibility API > so it will not be accessible unless someone goes back into it and > does an overhaul on its UI code. My least favorite of these problems Thanks for this background information, the problem makes a lot more sense now. > is that the GNOME Network Manager has no accessibility support so, > if launched while orca is running, will only say, "Network Manager > not accessible" and then go silent until one leaves the program. I > really do not enjoy using command line things like iwconfig every > time I need to find a wireless access point in a hotel or some other > place that my computer doesn't already know about. Have you tried alternatives like wicd? I'm wondering if it has the same problems. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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