[orca-list] Gnome or mate?

[Tim <isfeldt gmail com>]

Hello, so I've installed the Gnome desktop environment on Debian, originally I was using mate, but I'm having a bit of a conflict I guess you could call it. The only issue I've seen with gnome, is the activities overview is inaccessible, unless you actually start typing and search for what you want, the menus that I gather don't speak with Orca. The reason I chose it over mate, was mates very inconsistent panels, there have been times on certain machines where only the bottom panel was shown, and that was well inaccessible at best, other times the bottom and the top panel show, and work correctly most the time. I'm wondering, using gnome, is there a way to make the activities overview and such accessible? Since obviously you can't get to the desktop environment with Control Alt tab or control tab, it's a bit different I might add. Just some observations I've noticed. This is of course using Debian 9.
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