Re: Orca A hotkey for starting / (was, Re: menu placement and setup GUI in Ubuntu)

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wanted to respond to the portion of this message concerning the process 
> of starting Orca.  No specific mention was made of this , but I believe it 
> would be  very helpful if in addition to the other options discussed, the 
> desktop were to include a default hotkey for launching the program.  The 
> problem with all the other options is that to some extent, all of them 
> require navigating in the dark so to speak, and involve an element of 
> uncertainty.
> I've used similar hotkeys in Windows and Mac OS, and in my experience, the 
> ability to walk up to any machine, knowing that there will be a quick and 
> dirty way to start the screen reader has been invaluable.
>
>   
I think that's a very good idea. However it has one important 
prerequisite: that AT-SPI can be loaded dynamically. I think that is 
something we should work towards anyway. What are the technical hurdles 
for this again?

On OSX when you activate screen reading from the standard user settings 
area, it just starts speaking, without the need to activate a framework 
first or log out. Whether they have the required libraries running all 
the time or load them dynamically I don't know, but it 'just works'.

I don't think we can have AT-SPI loaded by default on all machines ATM 
because it will get in the way for too many people. It uses resources 
and has stability issues (within itself, but mostly in the host 
applications I guess).

- Henrik