Re: [orca-list] Where on Earth has all the Empathy Accessibility Gone?

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I am on arch linux either and I do have some more concrete observations 
running gnome 3.12 with empathy 3.12.
List of contacts is mostly accessible like it used to be. After enabling 
countact groups in the empathy settings which can be opened from the 
gnome top pannel menu like all the modern gnome 3 apps all groups are 
expanded. Group names are not read. The groups are identified as toggle 
buttons in the contact list window. I haven't found a way on how to 
expand / collapse a group using the keyboard. Pressing space plus, 
minus, numpad plus or numpad minus types these into the status message 
field instead of expanding / collapsing the group. Arrow keys don't do 
this as well.
Conversations can be shown either tabbed in the main window or tabbed in 
their own window. In all the cases input area of the conversation window 
is accessible so is the F10 menu. This version of empathy uses 
webkit-gtk for displaying incoming chat conversation I guess. This 
control is not focusable at least I haven't found a way on how to focuss 
it and possibly being able to enable caret browsing on it. It is 
possible to read incoming conversation text using the flat review which 
I don't find particularly convenient.
Also with old versions of empathy I gues incoming chats were read 
automagically by orca.
Personally I find it at the same level of accessibility like it used to 
be with gnome 3.10 and 3.8.
This is all with classic conversation window theme.

Still thunderbird and gajim and pidgin are perhaps better accessible 
messaging solutions I think.

Greetings

Peter



On 25.06.2014 03:16, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> I run an Arch machine with the theme set to classic, but to no effect.
>
> On 6/24/14, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:19:48AM EST, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> > > Hi all. I've been reading up a bit on Empathy, and decided I'd take it
> > > for a spin. I was able to import my IRC accounts, but Google Talk
> > > didn't make it, nor does it show up in the protocols list. In fact,
> > > the only appearent thing in the protocol list was IRC. Empathy has so
> > > much potential going for it! So how can I get Empathy to better work
> > > with Orca?
> > What distribution are you using? From what I remember, on Ubuntu, an empathy
> > theme is being used that is not accessible, so that may be part of the
> > problem you are facing. You can change the theme to classic and test again
> > to see if it is the theme that is the issue. Run the following in a terminal
> > to change the theme:
> >
> > gsettings set org.gnome.Empathy.conversation theme classic
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Luke
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