April 13, 2010 Meeting Logs

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:55:02PM EST, Bill Cox wrote:
> Thanks for the log.  I agree 100% with Luke's goals for the next
> release.  If it will help, we can do some early user-testing in Vinux
> alpha/beta releases based on the next Ubuntu release.

Feel free to do this if you wish.

> I'll throw in two more wishes for the next release.  First, can we
> bind starting Orca to Control+Alt+o, and have it work both at the gdm
> screen and while logged in?  That way, blind users would be able to
> start Orca on a public Ubuntu machine.  Second, would it be possible
> for Control+Alt+o to bring up Orca on the first screen of the Live CD
> installer, where we ask the user for his language preference?  Now
> that this is a Gnome dialog, it may be possible.  I'm willing to try
> and get this working if it's just a manpower issue.

Impossible to do unless at-spi is running all the time. I suggest you take that up with upstrea if you think it should be run 100% of the time in all user GNOME desktops.

> I think with Lucid Ubuntu has matched the best of the major Linux
> distros in terms of a11y, but with the changes proposed by Luke, it
> will have a clear lead.  Kudos to Luke and the rest of the a11y team
> for an outstanding job on Lucid!

Thanks, much appreciated.

Luke