Accessibility

[John Ralls]

On Sep 20, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> 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.)

Thanks. That's more or less what I expected. The normal widgets have accessibility provided by Gtk, but the register is our own beast -- and I couldn't find any hint of atk derivation in any of it. 

Regards,
John Ralls