Hi, Some Orca issues. I'm using the latest binary available via apt-get in Dapper. I've found that in some very basic apps tracking fails rather miserably. I wonder if these are known issues and or specific to my machine or if there's anything I can do. I've switched my theme to inverse high contrast 800x600, which is the clearest of the bunch for me, though far from what I'd like.
So here are the tracking issues: in Gconf, when you navigate a list of values for a key, such as the list of visible columns for NAutilus, Orca fails to track the selection at all. The same thing, in my experience, with the Gnome panel if you move around the icon view containing all the panels you can add. Orca seems to speak nothing and the flat review keys, which should be changeable for laptops, by the way, just skip over the list of icons completely. That's odd. The third app where I'm having similar issues is a file manager that was recommended to me namely Rox Filer. Tracking does work in the menus and dialogs but nothing is tracked when you select an icon in the main window. That prevents me ffrom using the app in the first place. I don't like Nautilus as it is barely as configurable as WIndows Explorer, which is not much, period. If even garden variety Gnome apps have this bad issues, I wonder how usable the average gnome app would be. At the moment I'm rather sceptical about it. How do GTK1 apps like XMMS look to Orca? I'm a huge Winamp fan, as far as exotic formats go, so would really need access to this app as it is the closest Winamp equivalent you can get. Something which can use XMMS plugs would also do. Lastly, I have noticed that my issue about gnome-panel crashing when trying to run orca in the run box is not specific to that app. When Gnopernicus starts the first time on logging in it works fine. IF I close it down and try rerrunning it in the run box, it crashes the gnoem panel similarly to how running Orca does. Too bad. Which makes me wonder two things. How do you change which app GNome uses as the screen reader? I'd like to have Orca start up when the screen reader box is checked. And also, step by step instructions on how to update or downgrade the gnome panel component, to resolve these issues, would be appreciated. HOpe this can be of help. If you need more version info and such, just ask and I'll dig it up if I know how. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
