Re: [orca-list] audacity and orca

[covici ccs covici com]

I did try flat review, but not the f7 which I will try later.

Thanks much.

I wonder if audacity is using one of qt5 libraries?

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:

> Hi John.
>
> If memory serves me, audacity has a number of custom widgets which are
> not accessible (they don't expose any information to Orca). There's a
> chance the help content is in one of those. The fact that you found a
> panel (the default role for Gtk+ widgets) with nothing inside it hints
> that this may be the case. I'll add looking at this to my to-do list.
> But if this is an inaccessible custom widget, there won't be anything I
> can change in Orca to fix it.
>
> That said, it may be that the panel has text and the text is accessible.
> Have you tried flat review? And have you tried pressing F7 when that
> panel has focus? If you have and those have failed, Chrys has created a
> stand-alone tool to OCR screen contents. I don't have the link and
> details handy, but someone here probably does.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 07/08/2016 06:53 AM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> > Hi.  I was trying to use audacity and orca using orca master from  June
> > 20 2016 and I am having some problems.  I want to read the manual, but
> > all I can see if I go to the help menu and either use the quick help or
> > the manual button is a close button, what looks like a back and forward
> > button using < and > and panel, but no actual text.  Am I doing
> > something wrong, or does audacity work with orca?  I can see some menus,
> > I have not tried to open a file yet.
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated here.

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