Re: [orca-list] Fwd: a11y stack change

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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A more basic question here is, how can one go about testing
dbus/at-spi on his current distro? I'm not sure where to even start or
if it is possible without totally turning my present system up side
down.  There's nothing worse than watching my distro upgrade to
something as radical as dbus/at-spi and losing access and not be able
to go back.  Much better to plug in something now and kick the tires
pretty hard to prevent a crisis.

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:33:25AM -0400, Mike Gorse wrote:
> Agreed; testing, debugging, etc. would be helpful.  The bugzilla for
> at-spi2 is on http://bugs.freedesktop.org.
>
> As far as that bug goes, I suspect that it is one of those
> intermittent bugs that will be hard to track down.  Matthias
> mentioned it in #a11y, and I have not seen it, so I asked him to
> create a log using dbus-monitor, so he restarted Firefox and meant
> to create a log but could no longer reproduce the bug.  There are
> also other issues with Firefox (flat review sometimes does not work;
> I'm trying to track this down).
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Michael Whapples wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > while at the moment I am not really intending to switch to fedora I am still on the dekstop development 
> > list and received the following message regarding switching to dbus
> > at-spi.
> >
> > It raises an interesting bug about firefox when accessibility is enabled. I don't know if anyone here has 
> > a clue what the problem is. Also as fedora have made the move to
> > the dbus at-spi, its probably going to be more importnat to find and iron out some of the bugs with such a 
> > switch. As we all are interested parties in this (as dbus at-spi
> > will eventually come to all distributions), may be we can help out (at least by testing and finding 
> > problems).
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:
> > a11y stack change
> > Date:
> > Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:24:25 -0400
> > From:
> > Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
> > Reply-To:
> > Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop <desktop lists fedoraproject org>
> > To:
> > fedora-desktop-list redhat com, fedora-devel-list redhat com
> >
> > Just a heads-up:
> >
> > As part of the ongoing march towards GNOME3, I have switched the
> > accessibility stack to default to the dbus stack
> > (at-spi2-core/at-spi2-atk/pyatspi) instead of the Corba stack (at-spi).
> >
> > Some initial testing shows that orca and caribou seem to work ok. One
> > issue that I've noticed so far is that firefox is unwilling to pop up
> > menus when accessibility is turned on. I am working with the
> > aeccessibility team upstream to resolve this and other issues that will
> > no doubt pop up.
> >
> > If you notice problems that look like they might be related to this
> > change, please let me know.
> >
> >
> > Matthias
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