Re: [orca-list] any review for Orca with Ubuntu precise beta 2
- From: Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>
- To: Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>
- Cc: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List <ubuntu-accessibility lists ubuntu com>, ORCA-LIST gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] any review for Orca with Ubuntu precise beta 2
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:08:35 +0530
This is very serious and I think Canonical is really letting us down.
It seems they are not as serious about accessibility as they used to be.
I won't download the beta2 in this case.
Actually I am in some rural part of India and bandwidth is not good
enough for downloading the ISO.
That's why I asked for the review and if this is what it comes to then I
think I and many others will have to give up Ubuntu unless these crutial
things are taken care of.
I guess many blind users had infact liked Unity2d and were prepared to
shift.
But if accessibility is really broken to this extent then I wonder what
to expect.
I have a daily build of Ubuntu 12.04 on a pen drive and it really works
so well that I was hoping to use a very accessible desktop from this summer.
Hope this is taken care of soon before the release.
It gives me a feeling that this is a very trivial issue for the
developers of Unity to solve, because it was all working perfectly just
a few days back.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 30/03/12 20:32, Dave Hunt wrote:
Hi,
I tried the Precise beta 2, and could not get the thing to use
Unity-2d. When I boot the thing, the login prompt drums never sound,
and I never hear the music one is supposed to hear on the Gnome
session start. I can start orca manually. Once I have orca running,
I discover that the 'alt-f1' keystroke is silent, and there is no
apparent navigation in the launcher. A press of 'alt-tab' is also
silent. Focus does switch apps, but there is no way to know until I
release the keys, and, even then, orca may get confused or go silent.
The 'alt-f2' keyboard shortcut for 'show run dialogue' is disabled, as
shown in the gnome-control-center 'keyboard' page. I think a press of
'alt+f2' actually puts focus in the heads-up display, and my typing
'orca' into the search area just happened to start the app. Enabling
the 'run' dialogue, in keyboard shortcuts, does not help. So, I
opened terminal on my flash drive session, and edited
'/var/lib/AccountsService/users/ubuntu' and
'/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf', changing 'ubuntu' to 'ubuntu-2d', as I
could do on an installed system, and tried a reboot. This results in
a system that will not boot. True to form, for Canonical, they broke
accessibility for this up-coming release.
Cheers,
Dave
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Has any one tryed the latest Ubuntu precise beta2?
I remember that people had reported Unity 2d having issues with Orca
not reading out the menus with alt + f1 and the launcher?
Is it a reality, did somme one manage to reproduce the issue?
if yes, what is the current status?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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