Re: [orca-list] progression with open solaris

["Peter op 't Hof" <opthofp xs4all nl>]

Will,

You wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Peter op 't Hof" <opthofp xs4all nl>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] progression with open solaris
> Most of the people thought that Open Office was inaccessible, because there 
> were
> > minor results with Windows.
>
> I'm confused -- I'm hoping that what you mean by this is "prior to the demo, 
> most people thought that Open Office was inaccessible, but changed their minds 
> as a result of this demo."  :-)  If not, please give us more details so we can 
> work on them.

No, their minds are changed as a result of the demo.
In an earlier session Peter Korn has laid the foundation for that.
I was able to show them a comparing test with Windows against Open Solaris.
I am now working togheter with:

Http://www.openoffice.org

Perhaps we can compair bugs later this month.
Next year it is the first goal of our government to introduce the ODF standard 
as a mainformat for open iformation for all people.
As a member of the Opendoc Society Accessibilityboard i have noticed that 
Microsoft wants to battle against that.

> > 2 Wireless lan
> >
> > On the Toshiba N5 the wireless interface was activated and was prompting me 
> > about several availlable lan-networks.
> > Orca was reporting that the window was inaccessible.
> > Is this a class which has to be added too?
>
> We'll need to take a look, but it might be that the dialog that appears is not 
> communicating well with the AT-SPI.  The cause could be various things, such 
> as using a toolkit that doesn't support the AT-SPI or the environment in which 
> the application is running isn't set up to support the AT-SPI.  I'll try to 
> keep an eye out for this app and examine it with accerciser next time it 
> appears.  Off the top of your head, do you know the name of the binary that is 
> used to make this dialog appear?

No, it was a set of the Toshiba driverset.
Perhaps that is the problem.
I cannot look it up again.
The laptop was from Sun Microsystems, but i have made many more notes.

Do you have Skype.
Please mail me privat if you want to talk things over.


Greetings and thanks,

Peter.