Initial impressions of 11.10

[Guy Schlosser]

Hi guys, I just wanted to write and say that I have actually installed 
the extra-a11y ppa, and the wireless icons work beautifully by pressing 
f-10. Some times menus say image when you use the left and right arrow 
keys, but when you down-arrow into them, they work as advertised. 
Excellent work on 11.10 accessibility, and I look forward to using 12.04 
when it is released.

Thanks,


Guy


On 10/16/2011 02:04 AM, Robert Cole wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 via Wubi on my laptop about an hour ago, 
> and I have not used the a11y PPA. I was able to access the wireless 
> icon normally, if that is of any help to you. I find that it is 
> actually working wonderfully using Orca.
>
> On 10/15/2011 09:04 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
>> Oh, and something else I noticed just now that's probably worth 
>> mentioning:
>>
>> I installed Unity from the accessibility PPA. Before doing that, I'm 
>> pretty sure the extra, non-app menu items in the bar spoke (I.e. for 
>> wireless/network control, sound, etc.) Now after upgrading they no 
>> longer speak. This seems like it might be a regression in the a11y PPA.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/2011 10:46 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
>>> Just slapped this onto an old netbook I'm trying to revive. Here are 
>>> my initial impressions.
>>>
>>> I love the new way to run accessibility on the live CD. Great! I 
>>> just wish it also worked from the instance that gets run when you 
>>> choose to try without installing. Running manually works, but 
>>> consistency would rule.
>>>
>>> Had some issues with the install, but those weren't accessibility 
>>> related.
>>>
>>> My new installation didn't come up talking. I had to run Orca 
>>> manually, enable accessibility and log back out and in. My 
>>> expectation was that it'd come up talking as soon as I logged in.
>>>
>>> Along similar lines, Orca doesn't run automatically. I have to start 
>>> it manually. This despite my impression that the screen reader 
>>> toggle in the accessibility settings screen is enabled. I can't seem 
>>> to find a "Run Orca on startup" option in Orca's preferences anymore.
>>>
>>> Unity seems quite keyboard accessible. Going to need time to get 
>>> used to the many new commands.
>>>
>>> My timezone is incorrect and I can't figure out how to reset it. In 
>>> Time and Date I see a text area containing the location New York, 
>>> but I can't figure a way to set this to anything local to me. I 
>>> tried entering "Chicago" since that's usually the timezone I choose, 
>>> but that doesn't seem to take.
>>>
>>> Lots of widgets seem to be misrepresented as checkboxes. In 
>>> particular, many menu items appear this way.
>>>
>>> I'm not clear on how to navigate some of the panels in Unity 2D. 
>>> They're also said to be inaccessible even though I did get some 
>>> feedback from Orca at one point.
>>>
>>> All notifications speak "Notification: notify-osd". I have to look 
>>> at .cache/notify-osd.log to see what I missed.
>>>
>>> While this is a long list of negatives, I'm quite impressed at how 
>>> accessible things are after such a major change. I probably won't 
>>> put 11.10 on my main machine for now, but I'm enjoying playing with 
>>> it on the netbook.
>>>
>>
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