Re: [orca-list] Accessibility status inquiry

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

From: Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>

> 2.  Gnome 3's current a11y outlook:  Is there anything more current
> than January on how it's doing?  Will the Gnome shell be accessible
> for typical PC usage with Orca?  Are there alternatives to it short of
> going to something like Xfce?

Probably this question are more suitable for the gnome-accessibility
lists. Anyway.

Brief summary: GNOME Shell first patches related with accessibility
were included on January. That means that Orca reacts to GNOME Shell,
but not enough to have a full interaction with it. Recently on March I
uploaded some patches that improve it, currently on "review mode".

Anyway, this is not a surprise. For a long time, plans for a "good
enough" a11y support on GNOME Shell were plannied to 3.2.

Soon I will try to make a post similar to the one I did on November:

http://blogs.igalia.com/apinheiro/2010/11/11/gnome-shell-accessibility-status/

Probably just after the release of GNOME 3.0

> 3.  Unity Desktop and Ubuntu Natty:  Has anyone managed to get it to
> work with Orca yet?  I hear there's tons of QT stuff in there.
> Perhaps the qt-at-spi project will help in that regard?

Accessibility support for Unity is in this moment "work in
progress". You can see the progress here:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-dx-n-unity-a11y

But there are still work to do. You can see that there are still a lot
of bugs related to accessibility on it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bugs?field.tag=a11y

On Natty Ubuntu will have likely some orca support. But it would be
difficult to have a whole support.

About the Qt: No Unity has no Qt stuff in there. Unity-2D has.

BR

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