Re: [orca-list] Orca won't read gnome desktop stuff

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

You were spot on about debian breaking accessibility by not starting 
at-spi, just got the wrapper from the 2.26.2 package and put it in 
/usr/lib/gnome-session/helpers and added the file to the auto start 
directory and it all works fine. Thanks. Now time for me to go off and 
find the debian bug reporting tool and report it as a bug of the debian 
package.

Michael Whapples
On 27/10/09 14:24, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Michael:
>
> It sounds like Debian may not have properly configured GNOME to 
> initialize accessibility properly.  There are many many things that 
> could be going wrong (see 
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Mechanics).  I suspect that the 
> gnome-session startup is not starting the at-spi-registryd, which 
> means that things launched from gnome-session (e.g., the desktop, the 
> panels, etc.) will not be accessible.
>
> Will
>
> Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a problem with orca not seeing any of the gnome desktop stuff. 
> > Let me explain what I mean a bit further. I have orca set to start 
> > automatically so when I log in to gnome orca starts and says "Welcome 
> > to orca". When I try and move about the desktop or access menus or 
> > press alt+f2 for the run dialog orca doesn't seem to be aware of any 
> > of this (I have turned debugging on and sure enough there is no 
> > mention of events from this sort of activity in the debug log). If I 
> > start an application from the run dialog (eg. thunderbird, gedit) 
> > then orca starts reading those applications but still doesn't see the 
> > gnome-desktop, gnome menus, etc.
> >
> > What can I do to try and find out what the problem is? Any ideas of 
> > what might be wrong and how I might fix it?
> >
> > My system is a debian unstable system running orca 2.28.1. I think 
> > the problems are related to an upgrade I did recently, does anyone 
> > know how I could get apt to reverse some of its latest steps (either 
> > that or at least a log of what it did so I can reverse the changes 
> > manually) and so try and find out the package causing the problem.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
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