Re: [orca-list] Accessibility Testing in Ubuntu 12.04

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl> wrote:
 
> My husband upgraded to Oneiric on his work machine, and of course
> because it's different, he hated the interface (he doesn't need a11y)...
> but we both felt Unity was a sort of Linux-version of Windows8's Metro
> interface and the Mac/mobile interfaces. Lots of large, shiny
> touch-screeny things, most apps hidden away, and everyone sharing the
> same menu bar. Maybe the current generation of kids growing up on
> iPhones and the like find this a more intuitive interface?? 

At least in Gnome 3 you can type the first several characters of the name of
an application to search for it from the "activities" overview.

I think the Gnome and Unity designers are trying to create desktop
environments that will function well on a variety of hardware, from
workstations with large monitors down to tablets or even phones. It's the same
user interface everywhere, or so the plan would have it.

With AT-SPI 2 now in place, Orca is in a position to run on tablets. I predict
someone will have it running (but probably not very usably) by the end of the
year, with one of the Linux desktop environments - I won't predict which one.