Re: [orca-list] Anybody tried Fedora 29 yet?

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

Hi all,

Been using Fedora 29 for a week or so now and just thought I'd write 
down my findings in case anybody else comes across these issues:

1. Not specifically related to accessibility, but Fedora 29, or more 
specifically kernel 4.19 broke my NVidia drivers.  Patches are available 
online, and this only applies if you use the drivers downloaded directly 
from NVidia rather than the ones via rpmfusion.

2. Fedora 29 switches the default synthesizer from espeak to espeak-ng. 
I had some issues with Orca not speaking all punctuation symbols, which 
is a known bug in espeak-ng.  The solution was to revert to espeak.

3. Issues tabbing between windows and losing accessible events: Working 
with multiple terminal windows as I do regularly is a real pain as Orca 
stops speaking them properly after switching windows.  I believe this is 
the known bug in the latest GTK libraries that has been discussed 
elsewhere on the list.

I think that is everything so far.

Gnome Control Centre is still really hard to navigate, and I do get a 
sense that outside of the bubble of people on this list, the overall 
Gnome project appears to have little regard for accessibility.  So many 
accessibility issues could be eliminated at source if developers were 
more aware of the simple steps they can take when building their apps.

It seems with every subsequent Gnome release things get worce, and the 
hard-working people on this list are then sent scrambling to sort things 
out.

Mini rant over!

Regards,

Nick