Re: [orca-list] FYI: Cleaning up bugzilla

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 09/02/2018 à 05:58, kendell clark a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I’ve gotten a couple of messages but it’s not bad. I’m glad someone is 
> taking the time to fix up old bugs so you guys don’t have to migrate 
> everything over to gitlab. It is worth mentioning that the Ubuntu mate 
> version of mate has some odd behavior that stock mate or mate on other 
> distros does not. Examples include orca announcing simply “network” 
> instead of the network you are connected to and it’s signal strength, 
> and not announcing the menu you add to the panel. I believe they may use 
> some kind of indicators, which if removed, will fix the problem so it 
> may not be an orca issue. Still, if possible could the indicators get 
> accessibility fixes? Mind you Ubuntu is using mate 1.12 by default, so 
> this could have been fixed in 1.18 although when I upgraded via an 
> unofficial PPA the bugs were still there. Still, I’m not absolutely 
> certain these are orca issues, they could be old indicators which didn’t 
> get updated along with mate. Right now I’m noticing a pretty cignificant 
> bug in orca from master. In mate, orca starts, and then stops speaking. 
> If you wait a while, sometimes orca will see the desktop, and then work 
> normally, but usually requires a restart, or toggle off and on. When 
> toggled off, there’s a delay, followed by “screen reader off”. Then a 
> second or two, then “screen reader settings reloaded. Then another 
> second, followed by “screen reader off”. Then you toggle it back on, 
> wait about a minute and a half before “desktop desktop desktop frame.” I 
> reported this off list to joanie but didn’t include a debug log, but I 
> can if needed. I’m having issues with Linux at the moment. When I 
> install antergos from it’s 18.02 image, orca speaks and works fine on 
> the live image, however when installed it refuses to speak. I cannot 
> make it do so unless I happen to get lucky, after which it will speak 
> for a few sessions then stop speaking. If speech-dispatcher crashes or 
> is killed, it will not restart and the system must be restarted for orca 
> to work, so I’m in windows only until I can figure something out. If I 
> manage to blindly upgrade to orca from master and speech-dispatcher from 
> git, I get lucky a little more often, but still, it’s hit or miss. It 
> makes no sense, since orca works fine on the image, which is new and up 
> to date, at least of February second, when it was made.

Hello kendell,

I'm happy to know you're interesting to contribute to Mate again.

Maybe if you encounter issue with Mate, you could open separate thread 
for each bugs.

It's really difficult for me to read and understand long paragraph like 
the above, could it be possible to provide simple mail like this:
> Hello all,
>
> Environment:
> - Debian Sid
> - Orca master
> - LibreOffice 5.4.3.2 (GTK3)
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) Open LibreOffice Writer
> 2) Press F5 to open the navigator
> 3) Press down arrow
>
> Result: Orca announces the context "navigator frame, navigator panel"
> Expected result: Orca should only announce the new selected item "tables"
>
> Orca only announces the context the first time I press down arrow, the second time it only speaks the current item. 

Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"