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

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Hello Nick,

Why GNOME Releases are worse every time? It's because there is no one 
that follow new development to check if accessibility is taking into 
account on new merge request. It's a hard-work that we're trying to do 
on the Mate desktop to ensure accessibility is still there on each release.

Best regards,
Alex.

Le 22/11/2018 à 09:57, Nick Wood a écrit :
> 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
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