Re: [orca-list] New terminal script. Please test.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kendell.

There is a heuristic hack in place now to try to work around VTE not
giving us the correct information when text is inserted. Hopefully that
will also solve what you're seeing in vte 2.x. Let me know either way.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 08/23/2016 05:08 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
>
> I'll get right on it. Could this new script possibly fix the issue of
> orca not presenting text or cutting off the first letter of the first
> word of the text in terminals which use vte 2.x? Don't worry I'll test
> for myself, just curious.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
> On 08/23/2016 04:00 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I've just committed a new script for accessible terminal objects. It
> > should work with terminals Orca can see, and not require special mapping
> > for applications. Notes:
> >
> > 1. You should do a clean build, autogen, etc.
> >
> > 2. KDE's Konsole, at least for me in Fedora 24, is not an accessible
> >     terminal. The rest of the app shows up in Accerciser; the terminal
> >     object does not. If Orca cannot see it, Orca cannot present it.
> >
> > 3. I've fixed a couple of Orca bugs, and worked around a couple of
> >     VTE issues, in the process.
> >
> > Thanks for testing!
> > --joanie
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