Re: [orca-list] urgent mate love from orca needed

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

Thanks for the report. I've been in Spain for a web engines hackfest
but will be returning home tomorrow and will take a look. If the bug
is in MATE, I'll file a bug in their issue tracker.

--joanie

On 12/15/2014 03:22 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all I'll try to make this short. Mate 1.8 is the latest stable
> version and it works fine with orca. There are a few minor issues
> whichI've put in a bug report. But mate 1.10 is currently in
> development and as it stands is nearly unusable with orca. I
> realize this is development code, but it's worrying. Mate 1.10 has
> the following issues with orca. 1: the icon view in caja, the file
> manager, is inaccessible. This used to be accessible in mate 1.8.
> This causes the desktop to not read with orca anymore. The
> backgrounds list in appearance properties  is inaccessible with
> orca, instead reporting the occasional scale, horrizontal gradient,
> from the control next to the list. The panel seems to have
> regressed, becoming less accessible than the current stable
> version. Applets that used to be announced now simply say push 
> button, or icon. The main menu says nothing with orca when it is 
> opened, unless it's not on the panel, then it says window. That's
> all the new issues. The rest of the issues are issues in the
> current stable version, that have carried over.  Are there any orca
> developers who could take a look? The bug I've filed is at, 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740670. I suspect this
> is a combination of orca and mate issues. From my limited
> examination of the debug logs, orca loads the gail module in mate
> 1.8, which is what allows it to read most of mate. In 1.10, it 
> loads the standard gtk module. Mate is in the process of porting
> to gtk3, which will be completed in either the next stable release,
> 1.10 or the following, 1.12. This is why I'm asking for orca devs
> to look, because as it stands it's less accessible than the current
> stable version. Thanks Kendell clark 
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