Re: [orca-list] Possibly Forking Gnome 2

["Alex H." <linuxx64 bashsh gmail com>]

Hi,

Not to keep highjacking this further, but the issues you reported on
Thunar are in the XFCE a11y wiki. Whoever did the testing for this
originally should really be praised. I'd also ring up those guys and
see how their a11y work is going.

[1]
http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/accessibility

On 9/6/11, Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> 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!
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