Re: apps no longer accessible using gnome and orca

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

Unrolling what exactly?  If its not window manager what might it be?

On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:06:56 -0400,
Janina Sajka wrote:
> I understand the attraction of gentoo. Why not get a custom build, with
> just the apps you want, and no more? Sounds cool--until important things
> break, at which point you're left with both pieces.
>
> I'm sorry, I have no gentoo specific understanding to offer. I can
> suggest some of the ordinary approaches available on other distros, such
> as unrolling to earlier versions until things again work. Yes, that can
> be very tedious, but isn't that part of the gentoo bargain?
>
> Maybe there are other gentoo users here who can validate your
> experience, or indicate their current success. But, gentoo users are so
> few and far between because of the high upfront cost of running gentoo.
>
> I know I'm being a bummer, John. But, I feel I've known you via these
> lists for long enough, that I'm willing to endure your ire. So, what is
> gentoo's recommended strategy for such situations? After all, breakage
> is surely inevitable in any human enterprise, including Linux.
>
> Janina
>
> John Covici writes:
> > Hi.  I am using the gentoo distribution and its gnome overlay and for
> > the last period (maybe a month or two) I find that no apps are
> > accessible using the orca screen reader.  The apps actually run as
> > verified with eyeballs, but orca does not see them.  I am running the
> > latest accessibility framework from git as of about 4 days ago.
> > Apparently, orca is not receiving the window activate event and it was
> > suggested to me that it might be the window manager.  I am using
> > mutter 3.20.3, downgraded to 3.20.2, but no joy.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
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> >
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         John Covici
         covici ccs covici com