Hi guys, I just wanted to write and say that I have actually installed
the extra-a11y ppa, and the wireless icons work beautifully by pressing
f-10. Some times menus say image when you use the left and right arrow
keys, but when you down-arrow into them, they work as advertised.
Excellent work on 11.10 accessibility, and I look forward to using 12.04
when it is released.
Thanks,
Guy
On 10/16/2011 02:04 AM, Robert Cole wrote:
Hello.
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 via Wubi on my laptop about an hour ago,
and I have not used the a11y PPA. I was able to access the wireless
icon normally, if that is of any help to you. I find that it is
actually working wonderfully using Orca.
On 10/15/2011 09:04 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Oh, and something else I noticed just now that's probably worth
mentioning:
I installed Unity from the accessibility PPA. Before doing that, I'm
pretty sure the extra, non-app menu items in the bar spoke (I.e. for
wireless/network control, sound, etc.) Now after upgrading they no
longer speak. This seems like it might be a regression in the a11y PPA.
Thanks.
On 10/15/2011 10:46 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Just slapped this onto an old netbook I'm trying to revive. Here are
my initial impressions.
I love the new way to run accessibility on the live CD. Great! I
just wish it also worked from the instance that gets run when you
choose to try without installing. Running manually works, but
consistency would rule.
Had some issues with the install, but those weren't accessibility
related.
My new installation didn't come up talking. I had to run Orca
manually, enable accessibility and log back out and in. My
expectation was that it'd come up talking as soon as I logged in.
Along similar lines, Orca doesn't run automatically. I have to start
it manually. This despite my impression that the screen reader
toggle in the accessibility settings screen is enabled. I can't seem
to find a "Run Orca on startup" option in Orca's preferences anymore.
Unity seems quite keyboard accessible. Going to need time to get
used to the many new commands.
My timezone is incorrect and I can't figure out how to reset it. In
Time and Date I see a text area containing the location New York,
but I can't figure a way to set this to anything local to me. I
tried entering "Chicago" since that's usually the timezone I choose,
but that doesn't seem to take.
Lots of widgets seem to be misrepresented as checkboxes. In
particular, many menu items appear this way.
I'm not clear on how to navigate some of the panels in Unity 2D.
They're also said to be inaccessible even though I did get some
feedback from Orca at one point.
All notifications speak "Notification: notify-osd". I have to look
at .cache/notify-osd.log to see what I missed.
While this is a long list of negatives, I'm quite impressed at how
accessible things are after such a major change. I probably won't
put 11.10 on my main machine for now, but I'm enjoying playing with
it on the netbook.
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