Re: [orca-list] orca on other desktops

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
Have you tried mate? It's a fork of the old gnome 2 but updated and
kept working. It's very accessible. The only thing to watch out for is
it's panel. Sometimes orca has trouble reading the applets the first
time through. If this happens to you, just right arrow back over them
and orca should read them fine. Mate just needs a little love from
orca developers, but joanie's got so much to do she hasn't had time.
It's just as accessible as gnome and often more so. I don't know what
distro you're using, but if you want an idea of what mate is like,
download ubuntu mate 14.04. When the desktop shows up, just press
windows+alt+s just like in gnome and orca should start. One other
thing to be aware of is that orca does say "not selected" after
desktop icons and in the file manager, I'm not sure what causes it.
Gnome and mate are really your only options for desktops. There's
unity, but to be honest it's probably not going to remain accessible
for much longer, because ubuntu is moving to unity 8 soon and there's
been no work done at all to make it accessible. Orca does not worka t
all with flux box,  but I think that's because fluxbox doesn't use
gtk, but another toolkit altogether. One last thing. Just because orca
doesn't work with a desktop, doesn't mean it won't work with any
applications. It will still work with firefox, brasero, etc regardless
of the desktop you run.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Don Raikes wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I was wondering how well orca works on other desktop managers like
> lxde, flexbox, etc?
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> I am looking for a lighter-weight desktop than gnome, but I need
> something very accessible out-of-the-box, and I am not sure I have
> seen any posts anywhere that say how well the other desktops work
> for accessibility.
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> Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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> Sincerely,
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> Donald
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