Re: Orca on Edgy -- update

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Henrik.  I just gave it a try.  This is awesome!!  
>
> I was wondering.... Would it be worthwhile to have a system beep occur
> when the initial install screen appeared?  That would help address the
> problem of how to know when it's time to press F5 if you can't see the
> screen.  And, to be honest, there have been more than a few occasions
> when I've booted my laptop from the live CD, turned away briefly, and
> then discovered that I had to reboot because the install screen came and
> went before I could give it the "noapic" option.  Had a system beep
> grabbed my attention.... :-)
>   
It's absolutely worthwhile, though we are here getting into territory 
that affects all users so it probably needs a wider debate. Filing a bug 
here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gfxboot/+bugs citing 
*both* of those use cases would be a good start. No chance for Edgy as 
we are now in deep Freeze, but it can be debated for Edgy+1

> What version of Orca will be on the live CD post RC?  One of the reasons
> for my query is that Rich fixed the problem of the Orca Preferences
> dialog appearing but not automatically getting focus.  It would be cool
> if when Orca started, the Preferences dialog had focus so that the user
> knows its there.
>   

Same exact code as now. We have a finite list of serious bugs that we 
intend to fix before releasing RC (and Orca is not on that list). 
Between RC and Final we will only fix new issues that cause serious pain 
(if any turn up). That's the process at this stage :) But then  
development opens up completely for the next version.

I've started putting some ideas here: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs


Rich Burridge wrote:
> This is great! Congratulations. I'd like to make a very minor suggestion
> for a future release (hopefully you are even working on it already 8-) ):
Indeed. At least on paper (see above). You can even make major 
suggestions :)

Rich, are you in the SF bay area? Can you make it to the Ubuntu dev 
summit in November? That's mainly where we will spec out new ideas.

Henrik