Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread John Covici
Well, I had updated the at-spi2 in May and that is where it was, so I updated to the latest git, but no joy -- maybe I will downgrade to the latest stable version and see if that makes any difference. As I said in another thread, I can't even get into the orca preferences. On Sat, 15 Oct 2016

Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread Janina Sajka
John: I just deleted another post on this topic from you, and then I relized I had a thought to share ... If I remember what you wrote correctly, apps are launching, but Orca doesn't appear to be getting the news. That really sounds like an issue with the AT-SPI bridge. Was that recently

Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread Janina Sajka
The problem is that you don't know until you actually find the reason. I had a similar circumstance just a few weeks ago with my Asterisk server. I ran a standard upgrade of my Fedora server which put in 196 updated files--this after three weeks. Well, my Asterisk stopped working. It took me a

Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread John Covici
I have such a thing, but its just a directory, but maybe I could sort on the time -- I will check. On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 19:45:42 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Do you have a log of what was updated in cronological order? Working > backwards might be one way to go. > > > John Covici writes: > >

Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread John Covici
Down version of what? Gnome has many items, I can't just say go to earlier version of gnome. Anyone have any ideas? On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 15:24:49 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > e.g. downversion > > John Covici writes: > > Unrolling what exactly? If its not window manager what might it be? > >

Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread Janina Sajka
e.g. downversion John Covici writes: > Unrolling what exactly? If its not window manager what might it be? > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:06:56 -0400, > Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > I understand the attraction of gentoo. Why not get a custom build, with > > just the apps you want, and no more?

Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread John Covici
Unrolling what exactly? If its not window manager what might it be? On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:06:56 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > I understand the attraction of gentoo. Why not get a custom build, with > just the apps you want, and no more? Sounds cool--until important things > break, at which

apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

2016-10-15 Thread John Covici
Hi. I am using the gentoo distribution and its gnome overlay and for the last period (maybe a month or two) I find that no apps are accessible using the orca screen reader. The apps actually run as verified with eyeballs, but orca does not see them. I am running the latest accessibility