In my experience, in an environment in which you can run Orca from master (i.e. have the right version of pygobject, recent enough Gtk+ 3, etc.) you will have one challenge with XFCE (built from master) and that's enabling accessibility for XFCE itself because of a different setting. The rest was working pretty well last time I checked.
While it isn't even a light desktop, just a window manager I've got orca running master running with fluxbox here. Fluxbox itself isn't really accessible, but I don't need much more than the ability to run terminals so its good enough for me. The fact it isn't a desktop means things are much more manuel which is somewhat useful in this situation because the simplicity makes it easier to understand. However I have had to hit orca with a hammer until it stopped wanting to check gsettings to see if a11y was enabled. I can push my patch somewhere if someone wants to use it, but its pretty hacky. I think eventually orca should probably just use the org.a11y.Status IsEnabled property Mike set up, other than perhaps for initial setup.
2 will mean a couple of things: The existing "modes" (which are currently a mess and also entwined in Orca proper) will become their own modules with their own event listeners and handlers. As a result, we not only can have much cleaner existing modes, we can much more easily have new and cool modes. For instance, I personally think the "virtual buffer" is an evil beast <grins>, but it will become possible to create a mode which more or less replicates that functionality. We might even
So, for various reasons I've been using firefox with nvda instead of orca for the paste week and couple days. To be honest while there are certainly ways the experience is better on windows I think I prefer using orca, and I suspect a lot of it is related to things like quick search working because there is no virtual buffer.
But I digress.... Because I am pretty much changing EVERYTHING in Orca, I need some testers. If that means taking a break to sort out XFCE's state, I'll do it.
I don't know all that much about the details for xfce or other desktops, but I'll mostly be around on irc / gtalk / email and probably now some things that may be of use if people have questions or issues. Trev
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