Unity is relatively goodlyaccessible

Mgr. Janusz Chmiel chmeljanusz at seznam.cz
Fri Oct 7 12:20:17 UTC 2011


Dear users and developers,
     Thank's to works of developers and advanced users throught out The 
world, The unity interface is much more accessible, than i have thinked 
before i have tried todays Ubuntu 11.10 daily build. By pressing ALT+F1, 
user can hear The names of buttons representing installed applications, 
running applications with administration privileges is also supported 
ammazingly and Orca can be used with those applications. Unfortunately, 
i AM not able to locate The Update manager and run application dialog 
window.
So please, will be Ubuntu updater included or this tool will not be 
awailable and users will have to perform Ubuntu updates by using apt-get 
dist upgrade?
There is Ubuntu One, Ubuntu software center, but i can not locate 
Synaptics package manager.
But Unity is working and attention.
Orca is able to cooperate with included version of Mozilla Firefox, but 
now, user must use The Orca configuration for Firefox and user must 
check The button grab focus on objects when navigating. This button is 
awailable in The Firefox specific Orca settings in The firefox TAB.
So for now, my biggest issue is, that i can not activate The run 
application dialog box and i can not locate The terminal atleast inside 
The list of installed applications.
The name of module is very probably Application launcher, which is 
displaing The applications list after pressing ALT+F1.
My last question for all Orca users is.
Do You think, that it is sad, that Orca is not supporting The live 
regions announcement mechanishm presented in The older Orca releases? in 
Orca 2.32.0? So users could hear The messages of ARIA live regions not 
only when Orca automatically have detected those messages, but user 
could hear one of The checked ARIA live regions messages by pressing 
ORCA+F2, F3. So Orca +F2 have announced The message presented by The 
second ARIA live region, ORCA+F3 have announced The previously spoken 
message from The thirt ARIa live region, ETC.
Now, ORCA is able to automatically speak The ARIA live region, but user 
can not repeat The previously spoken messages, which have been assigned 
to one of The ARIA live regions.
According to my opinion, it is sad, because ARIA live regions are very 
often used even in The modern chat related WEB sites, some WEB pages are 
using ARIA live regions for displaiing The ADS, state television WEB 
pages can use those regions for displaiing tips for one of The important 
news, ETC.
But Orca is very stable, Pulseaudio is not causing issues, at-spi is 
working excellently. So i think, that everybody of us can lookingforward 
to official, stable Ubuntu release. I think, that there is time to 
release RC version of Ubuntu 11.10. I think, that this will be done in 
The end of next week.
BUt it is only my personal analysis, it will depend on Canonical LTD.





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