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Re: [orca-list] orca on other desktops

Yes, you are correct that fluxbox menus do not speak, but between storm and myself we've scripted our way 
around this, and the fact it does not tell you 
which workspace you are in is  what you get with gnome, and focus is a problem with gnome, i.e. you can't 
reliablyt stay in a given work space.
You know you have gotten in to another workspace because you have set up a filemanager to manage you desktop. 
Your options are only pcmanfm and caja as 
far as I know. There used to be some problems with nautilus, but maybe they no longer apply. 
Most navigation key bindings are the same as other desktops use, e.g. alt tab to switch windows, and all of 
these can be very easily customized, so the 
only thing extra you have to learn is that alt f10 maximizes. Alt f4 closes the window which may close the 
app or may iconify it depending on ap. Alt f5 
kills the app for sure. Same stuff is exported that was needed  before for mate, may still be. I've used 
every QT or GTK app with fluxbox that I have 
with gnome, unity or mate. 
Fluxbox can use gnome panel applets, kde ones as well, but they do not speak. If the fluxbox devs could work 
on getting the panel, (slit they call it), 
 to speak I'd say along with a couple of scripts it'd be the best thing going as it's so fast and stable.
   

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  kendell clark wrote:
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 02:49:30PM -0500


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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,



I was wondering how well orca works on other desktop managers like
lxde, flexbox, etc?



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.



Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Donald



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