Re: Compiz + A11y Discussion

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Bryen!

For Orca users, the two main bugs are the Alt+Tab problem that causes 
Orca to  be somewhat silent 
(http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027) and Ctrl+Alt+Tab 
not working 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/228343).  The 
issue with Ctrl+Alt+Tab seems to be that Compiz is using it for 
something else: http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/CommonKeyboardShortcuts.

There's also the issue of magnification.  eZoom seems to do OK, but it 
is also not set up for control from an application like Orca. It is 
also missing a number of features that might arguably be separate 
plugins, such as color filtering.  The eZoom developer was working on a 
D-Bus API for magnification, but got sidetracked with school work.  It 
would be nice to try to pick up the D-Bus magnification API as a 
community project and make it a goal to have it complete before GNOME 
3.0.

Finally, some sort of D-Bus- highlighting API would be nice to create.  
This might be related to the magnification API, but the intent is to be 
able to bring attention to areas of the screen by visually altering 
their appearance (e.g., a locally zoomed area, an area painted with 
different colors, an area with a box around it, dimming all of the 
display except the highlighted area, etc.).

Will

On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:07:10PM EST, Bryen wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I had a conversation with one of the Compiz team members the other day
> > regarding the state of Compiz and the importance of a11y in it.   From
> > that conversation, he advised that now is a good time to give input to
> > the developers about any a11y issues or wishes we have, because they 
> > are
> > in the middle of a complete rewrite of Compiz at this time.
> >
> > So, I'd like to get this thread started and gather some input from
> > everyone which I can then pass along back to them.
> >
> > Some questions to think about:
> > - Bugs you've encountered in the past that hampered a11y access.
>
> Can't think of what the bug number is, or where it is filed, but one 
> bug is not having window titles spoken when running compiz and using 
> ALT + tab to switch between windows.
>
> I can get the details for this one later.
>
> Luke
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