Re: [orca-list] Disabled Controls

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:39:42PM CEST, Jared Wright wrote:
> Hi all, I'm not sure if this is determined  by  Gnome, specifically
> something in Metacity, or Orca, but I definitely do want to modify
> this behavior if possible. As of now, navigating anything by
> keyboard, be it a self-contained dialogue or a menu or whatever,
> skips over disabled items. This is handy in terms of minimizing
> keypresses, but what if I want to know about controls  that are
> disabled? So many programs just grey out options that aren't
> applicable at the time, and I'm finding that lots of programs have
> controls I never even knew about until I accidentally met the
> prerequisites for them to be enabled. Especially prevalent in menus
> when flat review yields less supplemental information.  Any thoughts
> welcome.

I think this is very much a GNOME/GTK thing. How to change this, I don't know, but its not something that can 
be fixed in Orca, so far as I know.

Luke