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

[Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93 gmail com>]

at least the mate-desktop devs care about accessibility,
thanks fokes who work with the mate-desktop!
gnome-devs, please put more thought in to accessibility for people who
like me use assistive tech
when i ran fedora28, had to use the mate spin of it where you put in
username and password duering install.
worked quiet well,
only reason i went back to arch was when i was running fedora bare
mettle, my fans would be louder than on arch.
and fedora had more systemd services running than was required.
sorry for going ot!
Majid

On 22/11/2018, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> Hi Nick.
>
> Regarding 3, that is due to
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/issues/5. :( The issues which remain
> to be resolved -- those we know about, anyway -- are listed in
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/issues/5#note_345381
>
> --joanie
>
> On 11/22/18 3:57 AM, Nick Wood wrote:
> > 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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> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
>
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-- 
kind regards,
Majid Hussain