A few more observations on ONeiric and Orca

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi all,
Further to my previous observations, I have a few more.
1. Many of the toggle buttons in system settings are simply labeled 
"switch" and one must use Orca's review to see what exactly they do. 
Some examples are the Bluetooth visibility and enabled toggles, and the 
toggle settings in the Online Accounts preference page. This is a minor 
issue for the most part, however there seem to be random times when 
Orca's flat review will not work in these windows. If I discover a 
pattern to this, I'll let everyone know.
2. There seems to be no first letter navigation in the menu bar, that 
is, for any app that integrates with Unity's global menu bar. Is there a 
way to navigate these menus efficiently when you have a large one, such 
as my bookmarks in Firefox. I can't get first letter navigation to work 
nor does it seem to have a highlight-as-you-type mode akin to OS X. The 
only way I've been able to navigate these menus is with arrow keys 
alone. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there something I'm missing?
3. Sometimes Orca freezes and I have to manually go to a console and 
kill it. This has been an issue with Orca for ages, but I'd really hoped 
at-spi2/dbus would put a permanent end to it. It wouldn't be so bad in 
and of itself, but it seems to freeze the entire desktop along with it 
(meaning that I can't just hit my shortcut key to get it back), and it's 
not even considerate enough to log any relevant debug output  even when 
the debug level is set to full :-(.

Anyone else seeing these or have any advice?

Thanks

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