Accessibility

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:12 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629685 complains that Gnucash isn't accessible on OSX with OSX's built-in screenreader, which is true.
>
> Is Gnucash accessible on Linux with the Orca screenreader?

I was curious about your question so I tried turning on Orca in my
installation of Ubuntu 9.10. When Orca was running it seemed to
respond to the menu items, toolbar buttons, and tooltips.
Unfortunately it did NOT usually speak most text in the register.

The right-click contextual menu in the register was spoken, but Orca
called it a "window" instead of a "menu."

I also had trouble with Orca saying too much when speaking items under
the pointer (it would speak items on the toolbar even when they were
obscured by a pulled-down menu, for example).

But overall Orca seemed to recognize resources except for the register
items and it spoke them.

(This is my first experience with Orca, and I find it difficult to use
and understand. However I have not used any screen reader program, and
I suspect some of its quirks may be "par for the course." Furthermore,
Orca kept failing on my system -- it would either go "dumb" or hang,
and I couldn't set some of the options, such as different voices, so I
may not have all the components installed. When I upgrade to the
latest Ubuntu LTS release, now almost six months after its release, I
may try it again.)