On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Rich Burridge wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Hi,
I'd like to suggest a slightly different way you can help.
Sure!
We'd like to make sure that there is at least one GNOME
accessible application in areas like playing audio, ftp
transfer, bit-torrent client etc.
Yes I agree.
There are three Orca bugs open at the moment related
to this:
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orca Script support for gftp.
To be honest I don't do much ftp work. (I do a bit...) But I can take a
look.
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orca Script support for gnome-blogger
Never used such a tool. And I am not sure I would...
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orca Script support for gnucash.
Again this isn't an application I will really use.
I will probably use the ftp one a bit though.
We've also started Orca scripts for applications like rhythmbox and
planner.
Yes! I want to get planner accessible so I want to help there. I was
wanting to use it myself.
BTW, could a windows user read my saved planner file and modify it?
And rhythmbox sure. Let me try and get the application running on my
computer though. :-)
I will install linux to my good system soon so that is when I may have
some more luck.
But yes I would use rhythmbox a lot.
What would be extremely useful is for somebody to take these applications
for a drive and report on accessibility/usability problems. If you can
file
bugs in GNOME Bugzilla (against product Orca initially) on the problems
you
find, that would be even better.
Sure!
I will. Just give me a few days to catch up on work and stuff. I have been
away for the weekend...
Sorry about the delay in answering too.
But I will. Hopefully my last two bug reports have been ok.
(The password one you commented on and another one about the gnome version
dialog.)
At that point, we can evaluate what the problem is, and suggest ways that
we
can fix it. Hopefully we can get the original application maintainers to
fix
their bugs, but if not, we can (if possible) describe how we could work
around
the problem using an Orca application script. At that point we can start
helping
you learn how to write simple Orca python scripts.
Ok then. Sounds good to me. So how does orca know what script to load?
Does it just load applicationname.py or something?
And in the mean time should I read up on python? I have some basic C
knolage too...
Does that sound like something you'd be interested in helping with?
It does.
If you can just give me a few days to catch up on things and I will try
out some of these apps.
(Do we have an accessible irc client?)
Is it ok if I try planner and rythmbox out first?
I may even be able to have a go at the ftp one too.
But the other two well I won't really use and I really don't know what
they do...
Thanks,
--
Daniel Dalton
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
d dalton iinet net au
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