Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 15.10, alt emacs and orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Bart.

Glad you sorted that out. BTW, as long as you CC me when sending a
debug.out, I'll get it (and did this time). In the future, feel free to
send it just to me as the size of the file guarantees a bounce.

Having looked at your debug.out, a bug you might wish to file against
unity is "don't expose 'dummy' descriptions to assistive technologies."
That is where the 'dummy text' is coming from: The accessible
description of the accessible frame which emits a window:activate signal
(presumably because the global menu is getting triggered).

I assume that is placeholder/boilerplate text. But independent of your
particular issue, placeholder/boilerplate text has no business being
exposed via accessibility APIs because assistive technologies don't know
that is what it is and are in danger of presenting it in all its useless
glory.

--joanie

On 11/25/2015 11:57 PM, Bart Bunting wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We appear to have found the cause of the problem.
>
> It is unity trying to display a shortcut menu when the alt key is hit.
>
> Here is the documentation on how to remove that.
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/455519/how-to-stop-alt-from-triggering-global-menu
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bart
>
> Bart Bunting <bart bunting net au> writes:
>
> > Ooops,
> > message held for approval as body was too big.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Bart Bunting <bart bunting net au> writes:
> >
> > > Hopefully this is what you are after.
> > > I just started orca with the debug option and then hit alt and then
> > > killed orca.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hey Bart.
> > > >
> > > > On 11/25/2015 07:55 PM, Bart Bunting wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > "Emacs zen frame dummy text panel"
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know what is causing this and how I can stop it from
> > > > > happening?
> > > >
> > > > If you send me a full debug.out, I can see what event is triggering this
> > > > announcement. Please use Orca master for this purpose because I've
> > > > recently been adding more verbose debugging output so I can track these
> > > > issues down more quickly.
> > > >
> > > > --joanie
> > > Bart
> > > -- 
> > >
> > > Bart Bunting
> > Bart
> > -- 
> >
> > Bart Bunting
> Bart