Re: [orca-list] progression with open solaris

[Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>]

Peter,

Do you have a link to this OpenDoc Society Acessibility Board?  I'd love
to read more about it.

Thanks,
Bryen

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 19:13 +0100, Peter op 't Hof wrote:
> Will,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Peter op 't Hof" <opthofp xs4all nl>
> Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] progression with open solaris
> > Most of the people thought that Open Office was inaccessible, because there 
> > were
> >> minor results with Windows.
> >
> > I'm confused -- I'm hoping that what you mean by this is "prior to the demo, 
> > most people thought that Open Office was inaccessible, but changed their minds 
> > as a result of this demo."  :-)  If not, please give us more details so we can 
> > work on them.
> 
> No, their minds are changed as a result of the demo.
> In an earlier session Peter Korn has laid the foundation for that.
> I was able to show them a comparing test with Windows against Open Solaris.
> I am now working togheter with:
> 
> Http://www.openoffice.org
> 
> Perhaps we can compair bugs later this month.
> Next year it is the first goal of our government to introduce the ODF standard 
> as a mainformat for open iformation for all people.
> As a member of the Opendoc Society Accessibilityboard i have noticed that 
> Microsoft wants to battle against that.
> 
> >> 2 Wireless lan
> >>
> >> On the Toshiba N5 the wireless interface was activated and was prompting me 
> >> about several availlable lan-networks.
> >> Orca was reporting that the window was inaccessible.
> >> Is this a class which has to be added too?
> >
> > We'll need to take a look, but it might be that the dialog that appears is not 
> > communicating well with the AT-SPI.  The cause could be various things, such 
> > as using a toolkit that doesn't support the AT-SPI or the environment in which 
> > the application is running isn't set up to support the AT-SPI.  I'll try to 
> > keep an eye out for this app and examine it with accerciser next time it 
> > appears.  Off the top of your head, do you know the name of the binary that is 
> > used to make this dialog appear?
> 
> No, it was a set of the Toshiba driverset.
> Perhaps that is the problem.
> I cannot look it up again.
> The laptop was from Sun Microsystems, but i have made many more notes.
> 
> Do you have Skype.
> Please mail me privat if you want to talk things over.
> 
> 
> Greetings and thanks,
> 
> Peter.
> 
> 
> 
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