Re: Orca sbackup not accessable with orca

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

Hello Michael,

A couple thoughts:

I haven't tried simple backup yet myself, but based on the behavior you're 
describing, it sounds to me like you're running into the dreaded sudo at-spi 
accessibility issue.  From what I  understand, we should be seeing patches 
to rectify this become integrated into Edgy fairly soon.  Until that 
happens, you might try granting your root account access to gnome, , and 
running the program from there.  For a description of how to do this, look 
here:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuDapperDrake#head-4b3ef3321c5a686d75bc99e60ce1b6060f39dee8

One of the things that makes Linux so great is the spirit  of cooperation 
within the community.  It's all about jumping in, and lending a hand where 
ever you're able to help.  So in that light, please don't ever feel like 
you're treading on anyone's toes.  It is a good idea to coordinate with 
people to insure that you aren't needlessly reproducing work that someone 
else has already done, but any help you are able to offer with ongoing 
projects would I'm sure, be very much appreciated.

Thanks and good luck,

--Al


   ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MICHAEL WEAVER" <michaelweaver1 btinternet com>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:14 PM
Subject: Orca sbackup not accessable with orca


> Yesterday at my Linux group I managed to download Simple Backup using
> the wireless card in my laptop
> I had a look at it when I got home with Orca but when I ran configure as
> there are two options on the Gnome desktop which are configure and
> restore, I couldn't get past the loggin prompt for my password as Orca
> stopped speaking and none of the keystrokes responded.
> Don't know if this application works with a much later version of Orca
> as I only have Luke's package, maybe someone else could find out and
> possibly add it to the list of accessable apps if it does and didn't
> test it with the command line.
> I am trying to find a naeche as regards Linux accessability but I am no
> programmer or perhaps I should say I don't have the knowledge to go into
> that sort of thing as I don't know Python and a lot of things I was
> considering doing ie putting together a list of accessable applications
> that work with Orca or testing Gnucash to see if it is accessable are
> already being done.
> The problem is I don't know what is and isn't treading on someone else's
> toes so to speak so if someone is doing a project would it be a bit
> annoying if someone else does something similar.
> Ben Fowler the chap at my LUG who has been doing most work to get me up
> and running with speech in Linux assures me I couldn't tread on anyone's
> toes but with many of the areas seemingly being covered by others I want
> to be sure that I am not encroaching on other people's work.
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