Re: [orca-list] Accessibility of apps

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

Audacity is a great choice.
Lot of Blind people may be interested in professional sound editing, and 
Audacity is very popular just like VLC and Firefox is popular.
Secondly I can hardly understage the importance of accessibility of PDF, 
Libre office Calc and Impress.
Most importantly, some bugs in the gnome shell itself needs urgent 
attention.
Like I had reported some time back, the Wifi strength is not reported, 
Many notifications such as mobile broadband and Wifi activation is not 
announced.
This brings us to the debate of who's responsibility it is.
We can observe that the Orca devs have always done a great job, mostly 
taking it on themselves and hacking around an existing problem.
But that is not a very practical way always.
For example we may work around a bug in Libre Office Calc because the 
developers of Calc did not give enough time on a bug report.
But then some day they do pay attention and fix the bug.
Needless to say that the hack done before by Orca devs obviously has a 
possibility of breaking.
Being a programmer myself, I know how it feels when you take hard work 
to retro fit a software to work with another component and then that 
another component fixes some bugs and our work breaks.
So a coordinated strategy is needed.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Monday 22 February 2016 02:19 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> BTW, I like the idea of fixing audacity, and linphone.
> I mostly use the cli interface to linphone, but have had to write scripts to improve it/no accessability 
> issues there though. The GTK linphone interface
> is so close/would love to see it get where it should be.
> Rhythmbox some times seems hard to move around in, but I can't put exact issues in to words off the top of my 
> head as I don't use it much because of the
> issues I can't pstate very clearly at the moment.
> Gpodder: a fine program, under steady development/lead dev sounds like a nice guy. I wonder if there could be 
> an easy fix to the constant reporting of
> download progress that makes using the program once d-loads have started a pain, a few other things could be 
> done to improve its usability with Orca as
> well, but would need to spend some time with a sighted person wtching the screen to know how much can and 
> can't be accessed with a mouse at certain
> times as the interface is reported differently depending on whether or not updates have been just done or if 
> one has downloaded or otherwise interacted
> since last update check.
>