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

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

On 3/12/12, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com> wrote:

"Don't forget that Gnome hasn't stood still either. Gnome 2 has been
replaced with Gnome 3, and although I haven't used it, myself
understanding is that the Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 has gone through quite
a few changes, is a "flashier GUI" itself and has had it's own growing
pains with respect to accessibility."

Oh, definitely. Its taken me a while to adapt to Gnome 3 because of
that fact, but as of Gnome 3.2 its acceptable. It could be better, but
as long as I can use it I'm not going to complain too loudly. Which is
why I am upset with Unity right now.

I wouldn't have minded as much if Unity was accessible, but as it is
now the "everything is broken" state is unacceptable. Which means for
a stable production system I have to resort to installing extra
packages and configure it just to get a reasonably accessible
installation. Its not that I can't do it, but the principle of the
thing that right now Ubuntu is less accessible than prior versions..
While there is hope many of these things will get fixed before 12.04
is released I'm concerned access is taking a backseat to Ubuntu's
marketing strategy.


"Someone also said that Unity was trying to mimic Windows 8's new
interface, but remember that Unity has been around longer than Windows
8, so either MS is trying to mimic Unity or they're both learning from
the success Apple has had on multiple platforms."

Right. When I first started looking at Unity my first thought was
Ubuntu is attempting to come up with an interface similar to Apple's
iOS which will be fine once its accessible. I have no complaints about
Ubuntu wanting to come up with a newer flashier interface as that
seems to be the trend for everyone. As someone pointed out Windows 8
is a huge departcher from prior Windows user interfaces, and Microsoft
seems to be following Apple's example.

Cheers!