Re: [orca-list] so how accessible *is* gnome 3.2 on fedora 16?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Peter Rayner <prayner unimelb edu au> wrote:
> 3.2 is what comes standard with fc-16 and it seems that 3.4 won't
> arrive until fc-17 is finalized. I'm having little luck with gnome 3.2
> with the supplied orca. I presume I can't just compile/install atk,
> at-spi and orca from the 3.4 branches against gnome 3.2?  

You probably can do that, but it won't make Gnome-shell any more accessible.
> So are
> people managing to use gnome 3.2?  I'm especially interested in
> hearing from fedora users but wisdom from anyone else who worked
> through this would be more than welcome. 

Your best solution would be to move to Gnome 3.4 as quickly as possible. If
you can afford to run beta-quality releases of Fedora, you could upgrade as
soon as one becomes available. It all depends on how stable your system needs
to be and whether you have access to a machine on which you can install more
recent software.

I'm running Gnome-shell 3.2 in Debian and it's mostly inaccessible. Typing
Alt-F1 presents the overview and I am able to type the names of applications,
then select from the list which appears. Alt-F2 also works and allows me to
run applications, but without any access to the prompt.

Gnome-Terminal is mostly accessible though.

debian is in the midst of a transition to Gnome 3.4 currently - I'll be
getting rid of Gnome-Shell 3.2 as soon as 3.4 lands in the distribution repository.