Hello all, I don't believe Novell have done it again! They've gone as far as including Gnome 2.20 in their distribution but they've made a complete mess of getting the accessibility support right. first roblemis when you don't use any repositories when installing from the Gnome CD. At-spi won't be installed for you by default so Gnome will give out about that if you try to enable accessibility support. One of the people working with me joaked that it's ironic that Gnome shows a visual message on the screen to show blind people that accessibility support won't be inabled when two seconds before orca was speaking. Second problem comes when you install using the repositories. Ok, at-spi is then installed however Orca doesn't behave properly at all. I wish I knew how to pin down the route of these problems because at this stage I'm just speculating. Orca works with firefox 3, evolution, the terminal, it even reads some of the yast options now in Gnome. However, the gnome main window isn't spoken, neither are the orca options and pidgin isn't spoken either. It looks almost like accessibility support hasn't been properly enabled. When I tried verifying this, I was told the gnome settings manager wasn't installed correctly. I installed a few applications that were possibly nomesettings manager related as there was no specific gnome settings manaer package available for SUSE in the repositories and now that message has gone away hower orca is still not speaking everything. Anyone got any ideas? I'm sorry my message is so vague and my spelling is terrible. Orca has decided to stop speaking. I'm using ubuntu at themoment but I know the cause of that. I rokesomething yesterday and I haven't had time to fix it yet. oh the joys of linux. I would really appreciate it if someone could help with tis nomeproblem in SUSE. I should possibly creae a document for the knowledge base in novell abouthis very early next week before the consumer version is shipped. Darragh
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