Re: [orca-list] Eclipse and Orca under Ubuntu

[Frans-Willem Post <fwpost gmail com>]

Hello Joanie,

Thank you very much for the pointer towards GTK2. By adding the 
following entry to my eclipse.ini file, it finally is accessible:

--launcher.GTK_version
2

Kind regards and thanks again!

Frans-Willem Post

On 31-08-16 15:05, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Frans-Willem.
>
> I'm afraid when Eclipse switched to Gtk+ 3, they introduced a number of
> pretty serious regressions making things (including the content panel)
> inaccessible. There is nothing I can do about this in Orca because Orca
> cannot even see that it exists.
>
> The Eclipse developers know about the issue and are, in theory, working
> on it. In the meantime, you'll want to use a Gtk+ 2 version of Eclipse.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 08/31/2016 07:44 AM, Frans-Willem Post wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I would like your help in finding the best possible settings for Orca
> > and Eclipse to provide a usable and accessible (web) development
> > environment.
> >
> > Until now I've been using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Unity), Orca 3.18.2 from the
> > repos and Eclipse PDT 4.6.0.
> >
> > Without braille, Orca does a fine job throughout all applications -
> > though I cannot get it to read the content panel of the Eclipse editor
> > (the actual source code I am working at).
> >
> > When I connect a braille display, Orca seems unable to keep up with my
> > keyboard actions (for example Alt+Tab). While its speech is reading one
> > window's title, my screen and keyboard focus have already switched to
> > the next, and the braille display is stuck at the previous one. System
> > specs should not be a problem: 6 GByte of RAM, CPU is at 2 GHz.
> >
> > In short, I have the following questions:
> >   1) How can I reach the content-area of the Eclipse editor with Orca?
> >   2) How can I keep both Orca's and Unity's focus synced when using Eclipse?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Frans-Willem Post
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