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

[chrys87 <chrys87 web de>]

Howdy,

Sorry I never used Lotus Notes so i have no idea whats wrong here. I 
just can suggest some things:
If it is an Java Application - did you correctly installed/enabled the 
Java-ATK-wrapper?
https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/JavaAtkWrapper
Does other Java applications work?
I think the best is to ask the IBM A11y center here:
https://www-03.ibm.com/able/index.html
maybe the guy there can help you out.

But for Libreoffice i can say that 4.2.8 is also really old ( i think 
about 2 years). you also should consider to install a more recent one.
If the menus arent spoken if you press F10 maybe you are missing the 
libreoffice-gnome, libreoffice-gtk or libreoffice-gtk3.
That are the needed integration packages for Libreoffice in GTK and at 
least needed for ATK/ Orca).
In lack of ubuntu on my side i can not 100% tell you what is the correct 
one for what desktop. Maybe here are some Ubuntu users here that are 
able to tell you or you could just try it out.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice

cheers chrys

Am 07.06.2016 um 22:33 schrieb Geoff Shang:
> 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.
>
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