Re: [orca-list] Possibly Forking Gnome 2

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,

What you say makes a lot of sense. Especially, the point about the
state of KDE accessibility. If Gnome 3 isn't my cup of tea forking
Gnome 2 might not make a lot of practical sense if I could perhaps
lend my assistance as a C/C++developer towards helping the KDE
accessibility guys get KDE up and working with Orca. As it happens
I've looked at QT some time back and I happen to like the toolkit
better than GTK+ with the little exception it doesn't work with Orca.
So getting QT and KDE accessible might be where my immediate help
could be needed. Do you know who I should contact on the KDE end of
things to help with their accessibility effort?

As for Xfce, you know, I recently installed it and played around with
it on Ubuntu 11. Its so-so right now. Some things talk, but there is
also quite a bit that could be improved. Here is a quick example.

In the Thunar file manager when you bring up say your home directory
you can tab into the list of directories and Orca does fine when you
up and down arrow through the list of directories. If I press enter on
the directory the files show up in, I want to say its a list view, I
can tab to where the files are but Orca just says panel, panel, panel,
panel instead of the file names. I'm not sure without looking directly
at the code what the control type is where the files are, but Orca
doesn't recognize it or read what's in it. That's something that could
probably be fixed pretty easily, but is currently not ready for VI
access in any case.

Cheers!