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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Quick follow-up. Looking at your debug.out the MATE app is not emitting
the correct events. I've put the missing events in the GNOME bug.
Hopefully that will be sufficient for the MATE developers to fix this
issue for you.

--joanie

On 12/15/2014 08:24 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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