Re: [orca-list] Firefox 4.0RC2 initially inaccessible to orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Halim.

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:10 +0100, Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 08:45:35AM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > It is my understanding that at least several distros will not be making
> > the switch to AT-SPI2 in their upcoming release. Please push it.
>
> Are they going to use at-spi-corba  with gnome 3?

Did I say that? All I said is that distros will not be making the switch
to AT-SPI2 in the upcoming release. As a result, that means there will
be many users with "the lastest" version of their distro still unable to
have access to much-needed information. This will also apply to people
using GNOME at work (i.e. and might not have any control over what
version they use, but might be able to convince a sysadmin to install a
much-needed accessibility fix so that they can work more effectively).

> If so please don't support such broken approaches.
> by pushing fixes for deprecated software.

I totally hear what you are saying. And I'd agree with you -- if it were
not for the fact that such a decision means that users who are unable
(due to technical skills or workplace constraints) to upgrade to AT-SPI2
will also be unable to access much-needed information. Instead, I think
the approach should be to encourage people who can upgrade to upgrade.

> At-spi2 should be the used technolgy for gnome 3.

I suspect it will be. Again, I never said it would not.

> If they want to use gnome2.32 they should get the needed fixes.

And here is where we differ I'm afraid. I'm sorry.

> Please let's support the switch to at-spi2 alltogether.

Please let's support the user first and foremost. And then the code.
That means testing and using AT-SPI2 if we can, but not expecting
everyone else to do the same immediately.

Just my opinion.
--joanie