Re: [orca-list] vlc and qt accessibility in 14.04

[Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn kde org>]

On Thursday, August 07, 2014 06:44:35 PM unix wrote:
> Hello, not sure if this was received by the list or not, I've upgraded
> from 13.10 to 14.04 recently, and vlc no longer seems to be accessible
> with orca, ver. 3.10.3.  Not sure if this is because its trying to use
> my old config/preferences file, reason i say this is when i play a file
> from a directory, my jump forward/back and volume up/down settings are
> still the same, but I can't use the context menu or anything else and
> the window speaks nothing, no title etc. Not sure if i need to delete
> the old config and start over. But qt-at-spi and at-spi2 are all the
> latest version, unless I can add a more recent version of at-spi or
> qt-atspi from a ppa or somewhere else.   Thanks for any input! keep up
> the great work.

Hi,

make sure that you have QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 in your environment. For me VLC 
works (I see several accessibility bugs, but it generally is read, menus etc).

Cheers,
Frederik