HI, all, I'd been meaning to try Oneiric for some time and finally got around to it last night. I installed Oneiric into a virtual machine using the accessible option with Orca and fired it on up. I quickly ran into trouble. I couldn't get to the applications menu. I hit alt+f1 and got to the launcher bar. After a few tries, I found the "dash home" option and pressed it. A search field came up with buttons under it when I arrowed down. One was the applications button. I pressed it and nothing happened that I could tell. Also, there appears to be a tool bar of some kind that is not accessible. Moving around the screen with flat review reveals that there are a bunch of "fillers" on it. Control alt tab takes me to a Unity 2d pannel which is also inaccessible. What I'd like to do is put some shortcuts on my desktop or find ways to put shortcuts in my launcher which I get to with alt+f1. I don't now that I vicerally object to Unity as so many seem to but, I do think it's a definite productivity killer for me. I haven't been able to get to any documentation to read up on what I'm supposed to do from within Unity itself, none of the shortcuts I'm used to using work as expected, I can't get to the under the hood stuff easily and there are tons of inaccessible areas all over the place. I couldn't even get to a console command line because Pulse audio doesn't work in console mode. Honestly, I am still baffled as to why this package has gained so very much popularity. Historically, the GUI has been a "bell and whistle" feature for *nix but more and more is depending on the gui these days. Anyway, using a gnome terminal is somewhat helpful except that Orca cuts out and crackles a bit and gives me error messages about lines in at-spi that don't do as they are supposed to in D-Bus. Lastly, I installed using the accessible install method but found I get no speach in the login area of x and Orca doesn't come up automatically. Also, I have to do a control alt t to launch it from the terminal because alt f2 doesn't seem to except orca as a command. I half expected to be met with a few obstacles in this desktop but they turned out to be more than what I anticipated. I wanted to try it out to be able to provide feedback even if I didn't use it because I think it's important for us to try all the new stuff and get our observations out where someone might see them and do something about them.
Hope this feedback helps someone, Alex M -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
