Re: [orca-list] gnome 3.2

[Tami Kinney <tamara 8024 comcast net>]

Johnathan,

I just recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and am more than slightly nutty 
now because of frustrations with using Firefox and Thunderbird. It's 
better since the upgrades I downloaded and installed yesterday or the 
day before, but...

One workaround that provides enough of a solution for me to get some 
work done is to open up the Orca preferences for whichever of those 
applications I am trying to use (Insert + CTRL + Space). Then I simply 
do Shift + TAB once to reach theOkay button, hit it to reload the Orca 
user settings for Thunderbird or Firefox, ALT + TAB to switch to another 
window or to just stay in the same window if that's all I have open and 
Orca will start to behave more normally.

It is not a perfect solution, and I still run into trouble with the 
focus problems others have mentioned, but it's getting me by while the 
problem is being addressed by our hard-working accessibility miracle 
workers.

Hope this helps!

Tami

 10/26/2011 06:14 PM, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me with this little problem. I have gnome
> 3.2 running on ubuntu 11.10 and I think it is great! I should mention
> I'm running gnome-shell. The only problem I'm having is when I open
> firefox and thunderbird the programs open but I can't get orca to read
> the screen when either of these 2 programs are opened. I try pressing
> alt and tab to switch to a different window but that doesn't work. I
> asked my wife if these programs were open and she said yes they were. So
> my question is what can I do to get Orca to notice the window that
> firefox and thunderbird open in. It seems that everything else I tried
> worked such as libre office writer and gedit along with gpodder. I could
> also get into the home folder and move around and open the terminal and
> type in commands. So my only problem is the firefox and thunderbird
> issue. Thanks for your time and help.
>
> --Jonathan Nadeau
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