Re: [orca-list] empathy accessibility?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. Is there an opened bug I can
comment on to get the ball rolling?
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/24/2015 06:11 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Kendell.
>
> The problem is that we don't get accessibility events from Empathy
> itself for incoming messages. If memory serves me, it is a WebKitGtk bug.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 09/24/2015 06:37 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > I'm not sure if I've brought this up before, my memory is saying yes.
> > I've recently discovered empathy, the built in gnome IM client. It
> > supports everything I do with pidgin, so I gave it a try. It's much
> > improved accessibility-wise from the last time I tried it, except for
> > one thing. I cannot get orca to announce chat messages automatically.
> > Additionally, the orca+f keystrokes, f1 through f10 to read the most
> > recent messages don't seem to work. There also doesn't seem to be a read
> > only text area for reviewing the chat messages as in pidgin, so I need
> > to use flat review to read them. Occasionally empathy will produce a
> > notification, which of course orca reads. Joanie, do you know what would
> > be needed to make this work? I'm thinking it might just need an update
> > of the empathy script, but of course I'm no expert. I like the idea of
> > an all in one chat application, plus phone calls. I have looked around
> > in settings and see nothing accessibility wise, except I did find a
> > notify option in the menus, which enabled the notifications. I also
> > tried enabling the carret just in case that was necessary, but no luck.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> > Kendell clark
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