Re: [orca-list] Unity-2d: Orca cannot access the menubar on the desktop

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi,

Strange. With a stock version of Ubuntu 11.10 pressing alt+f1 brings me 
to the launcher. Arrowing up and down gives me Home, Firefox, Terminal, 
Orca, LibreOffice Calc, LibreOffice Writer, etc. So pressing alt+f1 in 
Unity 2d should be speaking something. It does it for me all the time. 
Even when I run it off the Live cd.

As for the menu bar this is what happens for me. I press windows+d which 
brings focus to the desktop. I Press f10 and it says window.
Now, left and arrowing gets the same problem you reported of Orca 
reporting window, window, window when I'm on a menu option. One way I 
found to deal with that is to simply open up the menu and then if I left 
and right arrow focus will move to the next menu and speak the first 
item in the list. Its not a perfect solution, but it seems to work for 
me. At least I can read the items inside the menus even if I can't read 
the menu titles themselves.


On 3/25/2012 2:53 PM, hackingKK wrote:
> HI Thomas.
> Firstly, I am indeed going into Unity 2d that's sure.
> I can't access the menu using alt + f1, like I can do in precise.
> I don't here any thing when I press the down arrow.
> Secondly, the f10 key does not announce menus at all.
> I press arrows all around but no response in that menu except "window ".
> I did not go any further as this was very irritating.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.