Re: [orca-list] Unity top pannel not completely accessible in orca 3.23.91

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 06/02/2018 à 14:47, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> Regarding the patch for Unity, it's mostly a hack to work around bugs in
> accessibility support that really should be fixed in Unity itself --
> something I told Luke at the time. My opinion hasn't changed.
>
> What has changed is that Unity is dead:
> https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/
>
> What has also changed, as I understand it, is that Canonical laid off
> the one person who seemed to be doing anything to work around the
> accessibility issues in their products. Instead, they filed a bug
> providing the hack so that I could maintain support for their
> discontinued product and its accessibility bugs.

I understand. Maybe it could be great to tell this on bugzilla because I 
suspect Jeremy Bicha is not aware of that.

> If Hypra, or anyone else, would like to make that hack available to
> Ubuntu users who prefer to use Unity instead of GNOME Shell or MATE,
> feel free to do so. I do not intend to include it in upstream Orca. Sorry!

Hypra doesn't take care of Unity. I just answer to Krishnakant to 
explain him the current situation.

Best regards.