Re: [orca-list] a few miscellaneous issues to report

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

On 12/05/2015 12:57 PM, kendell clark wrote:

> one is related ... I'm not sure if it's firefox or not. First, orca
> seems to get stuck in mate's panel. I've already sent joanie a debug log
> on this and it looks like after one of my applets, orca seems to lose
> focus on the panel and will no longer read it.

I thought I responded already in great detail privately with suggestions
for you to try -- all of which, however, were designed to help you work
with the MATE developers because it appears that keyboard focus is stuck
(and would be for all keyboard users) or accessibility support is broken
(no events).

To be clear: From what you have shared with me: Not Orca. Cannot be
worked around in Orca.

> Second, it is impossible to access applications run as rootwith orca.

That means Orca is not getting accessibility events. No events means
nothing for Orca to present. Because a debug.out shows events Orca gets
and how Orca responds to those events, sending me a debug.out from the
problem you describe will not be helpful as it will simply confirm no
events.

Conclusion: Not Orca. Cannot be worked around in Orca.

> Sometimes, when orca encounters a slider, it will say the current value
> but not the percentage associated with it.

Conclusion: Design decision. If everyone thinks that Orca should present
both, I can modify Orca to do so. No debug.out is needed.

> The last issue is that
> when reading in say all, if the volume keys are pressed, orca seems to
> get interrupted, instead of continuing to read. My guess is that there
> is a pop up window on screen which displays teh new volume.

Your guess is correct. Making SayAll continue reading even though
something else has popped up may be a possibility. I'll look into it.

--joanie