Re: [orca-list] pidgin 2.6.4 and orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Zack:

I haven't had a chance to test pidgin 2.6.4.  Unlike the stock market, 
past performance from the pidgin team is usually a good indicator of 
future performance, which means they are likely to break accessibility 
when they update the user interface. ;-)

I believe the only way we can change this predictable performance is by 
having users engage the pidgin team directly -- mainstream developers 
need to develop an awareness of accessibility and they need to make it 
part of their design, development, and testing discipline.

Can you please log a bug with the Pidgin project and CC me?  I can 
certainly do it, but I think the message is much more powerful if it 
comes from an end user.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports

Will

Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi All,
> I made the rather unpleasant discovery today that ArchLinux upgrading
> pidgin to 2.6.4 broke the orca script for it completely.  I have orca
> 2.28.1 at the moment from the arch repository.
> I wonder if this sort of breakage is reason enough to run orca from the
> source repository?  I've never done it before, and so am not quite sure
> what to expect.  Might anybody be able to give me a few tips on how to
> go about it?  Steve, I believe you're already doing this sort of thing?
> I presume I first need to remove the Arch package of orca to avoid
> contamination.
> Thanks much for any advice,
> Zack.
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