Re: [orca-list] Problems running Orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 17:24 -0500, bigd wrote:

> Well.... I'm an idiot!

If so, I am a turnip. <grins> Anyhoo, one problem down. As for this:

> But for some reason, orca can't read anything outside of it's window.

Not sure, not looking at your machine. But in terms of going from GNOME
2.32 to GNOME 3.2, there was a switch from AT-SPI (CORBA-based) to
AT-SPI2 (DBus-based). Furthermore Orca 3.2 and later use gsettings to
see if accessibility support is enabled. So something might could be
going on there maybe?

Also when you say anything outside of its window, please tell me that
you tried things other than Firefox and Thunderbird. The reason I
mention that is because there's the issue where you have to either set a
gconf key or add GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 to the environment from which you
launch Gecko apps. This is a known and being addressed issue, but my
guess is that it will bite you.

Keep us posted. Thanks!
--joanie