Re: [orca-list] State of accessibility in GNOME/Others, from an absentee

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou actux eu org>]

On lundi 01 juil. 2013 à 12:31:52 (+1000), Jason White wrote:
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou actux eu org> wrote:
> > Thanks Kyle for this excellent message, from which I'll explore in details
> > gnome-shell. Anyway I tested orca 3.4 and 3.7 in various circumstances
> > (Wheezy, Sonar), and I experience a problem I wanted to share: when I lock
> > the numpad to write figures, any orca shortcut is locked too. On Firefox, I
> > cannot browse a page with arrow keys. Ins-t doesn't work anymore. To recover
> > the shortcuts, I've to press unlock numpad.
>
> Do you mean that you can't use the arrow keys as mapped to the numeric keypad,

Yes, but that is expected.

> or that the separate arrow keys on a PC-style keyboard then don't work? 

Yes too. And that is not expected. :)

> If the
> latter, I agree it shouldn't be happening.

We agree :)

> The Orca key (bound to the insert key on the numeric keypad in desktop layout)
> won't be available if numlock is set. That's normal and expected.

Yes. We have the same analysis.

Regards,


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