Re: Orca notification area and orca

[Cody Hurst <churst31 verizon net>]

Hi Will,

  NO I don't have any documents. Though my observations are just going
by when replying to an email, then trying to read it from top to bottom
with the plus key. I will test openh office again to reassure myself
that there actually was a problem in there. I will create a test
document if i have the issue, and will send it along to you..

Cody
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:11 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hey Cody:
>
> We've done a fair amount of testing with SayAll (keypad plus) with both
> Evolution and StarOffice.  Do you have an e-mail or StarOffice document
> you can send along that exhibits the bad behavior?
>
> Will
>
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 04:26 -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> > Hey Will,
> >
> >   As of now I have removed that top panel, and stuck the notification
> > area down to my bottom right. But yes, it is the same thing. Like little
> > balloon windows. 
> >
> >   So far the key plus is seeming to fail in evolution and Open Office
> > word.
> >
> > Cody
> > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 07:15 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Hi Cody:
> > >
> > > >   Yet again another message. I wanted to know, since I customized my
> > > > desktop, I want to know if accessibility to the notification area is
> > > > possible. Since I have some vision to make out popups and windows but
> > > > nothing in them. I see littlewindows near the notification area, but
> > > > orca does not seem to read the information when arrowing through it.
> > > > There might be updates or icons there I need to click on. Am I doing
> > > > something wrong or am I correct to say it is inaccessible.
> > >
> > > Are these little windows at the upper right of the display?  These tend
> > > to be Ubuntu telling you that updates are available.  I've been trying
> > > to figure out how to navigate to these from the keyboard and I can't get
> > > to them.  :-(  
> > >
> > > >   Also, I wanted to make the comment that Will had said the numbpad key
> > > > plus would read from the beginning of a file to the end. I have found
> > > > that from where ever I am, only the first line of each paragraph is
> > > > read, or maybe 1 or 2 words on the next line, but I don't get full
> > > > details of anything.
> > >
> > > Do you have more specifics about what applications are showing this
> > > problem?  The SayAll functionality is unfortunately sensitive to how the
> > > application supports the AT-SPI.  We will happily fix bugs in Orca and
> > > file bugs in other apps to make this work, as long as we know where the
> > > problem is happening.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > >
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