Re: [orca-list] good news: accessibility in mate is improving

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

i wonder when ubuntu mate will catch up?

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On 8/9/2015 1:18 AM, kendell clark wrote:
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> hi all
> Just an update on the status of mate 1.10's accessibility. A lot of
> the issues that plague the gtk2 version of mate, apps not being able
> to be run in a terminal without xterm, apps not being read by orca
> when run as root, etc are fixed in the gtk3 version. However, the
> desktop view is still inaccessible to orca. I'm going to get ahold of
> the mate people about this tomorrow. Mate session manager now
> optionally requires orca, so it should be easier for distro
> maintainers to install it. This is looking good. I'm not sure when the
> transition to gtk3 will be complete, probably in mate 1.12. When it
> happens, if it's accessible sonar will switch over, since some of the
> more annoying issues are fixed by gtk3 itself. The panel has several
> regressions though so there's still work to be done.
> Thanks for reading
> Kendell clark
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