[g-a-devel] at-spi2 first impressions

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

Hey,

after months of ignoring the coming revolution in the a11y world, I've
finally sat and down and created initial packages of the at-spi2 stack
for Fedora last night [1], and wanted to share some
initial impressions I got from playing with them for a few minutes.

The good news first: I did get to hear orca speak to me.

But there were significant problems:

1. The new atk-bridge module sends my firefox into a constant 95-100% cpu loop.

2. orca constantly consumes >90% cpu while it is running.

3. I only got orca to read the panel menus to me, it didn't seem to
see any other application that I had running.

4. When it was reading the panel menus, there was a considerable lag
between me moving the focus and orca reading the menu items. Maybe
related to point 2...

Let me know if you want me to any specific debugging on these issues.


Regards, Matthias


[1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544628
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544629
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544630