Re: [orca-list] gnome 2.3.32 and terminal

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Peter.

Thanks so much for looking into this! Have you filed a bug against
gnome-terminal to get them to address these issues?

--joanie

On 3/20/19 5:49 AM, Peter Vágner via orca-list wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since GNOME 3.32 terminal has three buttons at the top.
> By the way none of these are labelled.
> On my computer they are Search, new terminal and menu.
> Menu expands some simple menu or better to say list of buttons that are
> accessible however editing actions such as select and copy that I do use
> most frequently are not part of this menu.
> These buttons are visible on the screen all the time unless terminal is
> switched to full screen mode (by default it's bound to F11 key).
> Therefore pressing F10 moves focus to these buttons however pressing ESC
> does not move the focus back to the terminal view thus it's required to
> press the tab key several times until the focus moves back to the
> terminal view naturally.
> The terminal view has a popup menu as well that can be inwoked by
> pressing shift+F10 or the applications key.
> This popup menu has very interesting entry inside. It says Show menu bar
> and it indeed really does what it says. Below the described Search, New
> terminal and menu buttons it shows or hides traditional style menu bar.
> The only way on how to activate this old style menu bar with orca is by
> using flat review. At least I was unable to find a better way.
> In the Settings window we can inwoke either from the new simplified menu
> or from the terminal view popup menu there is a section for keyboard
> shortcuts.
> Editing functions such as copy and paste do already have default
> shourtcut keys assigned however Select all does not.
> Action for showing / hiding menu bar is available there too but it's not
> bound to a keyboard shortcut by default.
> Action that would focus old style menu bar is missing from the action
> list thus it's not possible to assign user specific keyboard shortcut
> for getting such a functionality back.
>
> So thanks to the gnome terminal developers this is another small part of
> their job where the accessibility has no longer be considered.
>
>
> Enjoy partially accessible gnome experience until it lasts.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> Dňa 18. 3. 2019 o 14:59 José Vilmar Estácio de Souza napísal(a):
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Today I updated the gnome version to 2.3.32.
> >
> > As I'm a big user of the terminal, I realized that the menu bar seems
> > to have been replaced
> >
> > The problem is that I can not access this new bar in a simple way.
> > Every time I press the f10 key the orca just announces something like
> > push button.
> >
> > The up and down arrows and the esc key also do not take any action,
> > and to exit the menu I need to press the tab key 3 times.
> >
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> >
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