Re: [orca-list] Administrative program accessibility on OpenSuSE compared to Ubuntu

[aruni100 gmail com]

Hi, I only faced accessibility issues with the default installation of 
firefox on opensuse 11.1. Open Office has been perfectly accessible. I 
have downloaded the latest ff 3.06 release and ff works fine now.
Aruni.

On 10/03/09 08:08, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi Luke
> Interesting. The logout/shutdown dialogs are perfectly accessible on 
> my 11.1 installation.
> However, there's another nasty accessibility problem in 11.1 that 
> affects any non-GTK application trying to use at-spi, such as Firefox, 
> Openoffice, and Mono/Winforms. Due to a modified gnome component, 
> these applications will not work with accessibility, they do not get 
> exposed properly. I'm unsure if this is related to whatever change was 
> made to allow easier admin access, but I mention it here in case it 
> does. Those on the mono accessibility team hadn't, last I talked with 
> them, been able to trace this down and hadn't heard anything about 
> what the underlying problem was, but it's conceivably possible that, 
> if they changed something to allow admin tools to work without a hack, 
> it may have broken parts of at-spi's communication with orbit in the 
> process.
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 22:32, Luke Yelavich wrote:
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> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:14:49PM EST, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > > Hi Luke
> > > Open Yast for a good example of this, although any administration
> > > program will do--as Yast is the primary admin tool on OpenSUSE however
> > > it's a good start. I haven't looked into OpenSUSE in great detail 
> > > though
> > > I do have it installed here, but their sudo acts very different from
> > > most. You'll notice that it asks you for the root password, not your
> > > password, and does so even from the terminal and not only from the GUI.
> > > Perhaps they're not using standard sudo, or have set it up vastly
> > > different from the way I've seen sudo being configured.
> >
> > Thanks, wil check that out.
> >
> > > There was also a post on the gnome-accessibility-list a while back from
> > > someone at Novell who claimed they had patched Orbit so the .orbitrc 
> > > hack
> > > was no longer necessary. Perhaps they integrated this patch into
> > > OpenSUSE? See this message:
> > > ORBit change needs testing
> > > The message seems to indicate that this patch was put into svn at that
> > > time, but I'm not sure if that happened. The behavior of orbit in other
> > > distros seems to indicate that it did not.
> >
> > Will check that out also.
> >
> > One thing I also noticed on the 11.1 OpenSuSE live CD is that the 
> > logout/shutdown dialogs are not accessible either, so at least for 
> > GNOME 2.2.4, the problem wasn't just Ubuntu.
> >
> > Luke
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