Re: [orca-list] Urgent: Linux accessibility help

[Geoff Shang <geoff QuiteLikely com>]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread.

A few quick comments before my discoveries.

* Adding the accessibility-dev PPA got me Orca 3.18.1 (I think)  which was 
a vast improvement on 3.10.3.  Firefox wasn't perfect, but at least I can 
now use the menus which I definitely could not before.

* IBM Notes (formerly Lotus Notes) is an email/contacts/calendaring etc 
application.  It communicates with IBM Domino Server.

The application still doesn't speak at all.  This has me a bit suspicious, 
as its dependencies would suggest that it should speak.  I also noticed 
late in the day that LibreOffice Writer 4.2.8 behaved exactly the same 
way, and I was wondering if this version should have been useable and 
whether something is seriously messed up or missing on my system for both 
these programs to effectively mute Orca like this.  The fact that both 
apparently seem to be Java-based might provide another clue.

Unfortunately, the web UI is full of clickables, and even using the 
clickables list, they don't always activate when they should and are often 
hard to associate with the message you want to open, for example.  So I 
don't think this is going to be practical.

Right now I'm looking down the barrel of having to use Windows with JFW, 
so if anyone has any thoughts about why Notes 9.0.1 and LibreOffice 
Writer 4.2.8 cause Orca 3.18.1 to pretty much stop functioning when their 
windows are in focus, I'd really like to hear it.

Cheers,
Geoff.