Re: [orca-list] accessibility check for LXDE

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I've used both at one time or another, and they both suffer from the
same 2 issues. Orca can't or won't read the desktop icons, and you can't
get to the panels. The menus, all config dialogs, etc work as they
should. The xfce people did at one time have at least a passing interest
in fixing the issues but they never have been. LXDE seems to have no
interest at all, and so they haven't been worked on either. I'm
convinced these issues could be  at least partially midigated in orca,
by employing the trick that mapped marco to metacity, but I doubt that
would fix all of the issues. It might, maybe, make the desktop icons
readable but the panel requires accessibility code, which both desktops
seem unwilling or unable, I'm not sure which, to add.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 10/06/2015 08:14 PM, kk wrote:
> Dear all,
> Between xfce and lxde which is rather ready for full-time use?
> Or are both good enough or none of them?
>     I have gone through some emails on this list about the accessibility
> for these desktop environments, but none of them convince me either way.
> Can some one who has used either of them give me an overview which even
> new comers can refer?
> I am not really liking Unity these days after recent updates, my prim
> time laptop which I use 90% of the day is a thinkpad t440 which gets a
> lot of lagging and hangs with applications like Firefox and Eclipse or
> Pidgin.
> And guess what It has 8 gb DDR3 ram and an I5 4th gen processor.
> If a lag happens on this configuration then imagine the case with my
> other machines with just 4 GB ram?
>  I am thinking of giving Gnome 3.16 a try but I am not sure how
> notifications such as wifi being connected are announced by Orca.
> I am also not sure if alt +f1 will read the launcher menu?
> Last time I tryed with Gnome 3.14 I had to do alt+f1 and then ctrl + tab.
>
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
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