Re: [orca-list] orca best practices

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

On 20/03/13 15:15, Bill Dengler(Ubuntu) wrote:
> Yep, Gnome Shell works great.
> Unity is also accessible, as of Ubuntu 12.10

Unity 2D, which is the default with Ubuntu 12.04 if you enable Orca
during the install, is accessible in Ubuntu 12.04.

Unity 3D, which is the default on Ubuntu 12.04 otherwise, and which is
the default desktop manager for Ubuntu 12.10 and beyond has some
accessibility issues, which are not currently being addressed, since
Unity accessibility is focusing on future developments and versions of
Unity. This doesn't mean you can't use Unity 3D; it just means that you
may hit the occasional inaccessible component or feature of Unity 3D.
This is why the Ubuntu accessibility community recommends Ubuntu 12.04
and Unity 2D.

> KDE is getting a11y work, same goes for LXDE and XFCE4.
>
> Bill
> On 03/20/2013 04:11 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > Hello John,
>
> > Perhaps you would be better served with ditching Gnome Classic and
> > switching over to Gnome Shell. Version 3.4.1 and above are reasonably
> > accessible, and personally I see no reason to go back to Gnome
> > Classic.  Is there any specific reason why you need to have Gnome
> > Classic menus etc here?
>
> > Cheers!
>
>
> > On 3/20/13, John G. Heim <jheim math wisc edu> wrote:
> > > Okay, so I got the gnome-classic menu working on my debian wheezy
> > > system. But I still don't know how to log out.  The system menu that was
> > > in previous versions of gnome is gone. Googling shows me that it can't
> > > be restored. I don't exactly approve  of that but my main problem is
> > > that I don't  know what I am supposed to do to log out.
> > >
> > > BTW, I've been logging out by switching to a text console and restarting
> > > gdm3, "/etc/init.d/gdm3 restart". After that, orca doesn't work but I
> > > found if I also kill off speech-dispatcher processes ownd by the end
> > > user (not a daemon), orca works again.
> > >
> > > Boy, my end users are not going to like this new gnome desktop. You
> > > really ought to be able to get the old gnome desktop. A few of them
> > > complained bitterly when Alt+Control+Backkspace  stopped working. I sure
> > > wish those gnome developers would stop messing with us.
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

-- 
Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail