Re: [orca-list] a few issues

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Justin.

On 04/06/2015 07:28 AM, Justin Pospical wrote:

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> 1. In Transmission, when pressing space on a torrent in order to check
> its status (it seems the only way to do this is to go into its
> properties) as of late Orca has consistently become very unresponsive.

This is likely due to an event flood from Gtk+. Not too long ago, I
removed some hacks from Orca and am instead using some utilities in
pyatspi. As a side effect, Orca seems to be causing Gtk+ to spew
accessible events. My goal is to solve this (and similar issues) in Gtk+
rather than add hacks to Orca.

> 2. In the metadata editor in Audacity, none of the fields or values
> are read. I'm thinking this is probably a labeling issue with Audacity
> itself, but am not sure.

It's more than a mere labeling issue. When I take a look at the object
using Accerciser, I see an accessible panel for the container, but no
children. That widget is not accessible. A number of wxGTK widgets are
not accessible, I'm afraid. See for instance:
http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/15411

> 3. In tree views such as DConf Editor or the choose an application
> dialog in Pcmanfm, it's very difficult to get anything to expand, for
> example one of the categories of applications. Neither right arrow nor
> space or enter work. Sometimes clicking on them in flat review works,
> and other times it seems to do nothing.

Orca doesn't take over navigation in anything but Web content -- and
currently that's limited to non-editable Gecko content. That said, did
you try Shift+Right to expand? That works for me.

--joanie