Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Fwd: GNewSense, browsers and Accessibility

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:17:49 -0400
Chris Hofstader <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 
> > js: I'm interested by this. I was under the impression that gnome
> > put a lot of effort into usability and accessibility, and epiphany
> > is gnomes browser. kk
> > 
> cdh: GNOME accessibility has had a lot invested in it but, in some
> places, it it is entirely broken. Most of this work happened in the
> Sun access technology group which has been disbanded by lay offs and
> assigning its members to other tasks within Sun.
> 
> cdh: Applications that run on GNOME may not have even the default
> accessibility as, if they were built for an earlier version of GNOME,
> they won't contain access to the accessibility API. Epiphany seems to
> be one such program that is much older than GNOME accessibility API
> so it will not be accessible unless someone goes back into it and
> does an overhaul on its UI code. My least favorite of these problems

Thanks for this background information, the problem makes a lot more
sense now.

> is that the GNOME  Network Manager has no accessibility support so,
> if launched while orca is running, will only say, "Network Manager
> not accessible" and then go silent until one leaves the program. I
> really do not enjoy using command line things like iwconfig every
> time I need to find a wireless access point in a hotel or some other
> place that my computer doesn't already know about.

Have you tried alternatives like wicd? I'm wondering if it has the same
problems.
kk

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