VTE bug filed, was: frustrated with the state of linux accessibility

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hi all. I've just filed the vte bug. This affects orca, which will
intermittently fail to read new incoming text, skipping lines of text,
or cutting off the first letter of text. The URL is at,
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746488.
Thanks
Kendell clark
Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux


kendell clark wrote:
> hi I've just updated f22. I don't see the item in the
> control+alt+tab popup for status icons, but I'll keep looking. This
> system is pretty much vanilla fedora with the exception of pidgin,
> so I'll run that, which does have a status icon that lives in gnome
> shell's message tray. I do have two suggestions  that I hope can
> make it into 3.16, and a couple more that probably won't. First
> suggestion. When you click the updates button in gnome software,
> the "check for updates" button is not focusable by orca. You cannot
> navigate to it by pressing tab. You have to use orca's flat review
> to click on it to activate it. A nemonic of alt+c would make sense.
> When restarting to install updates, would it be possible to start
> gdm in a minimal state, just enough to allow orca to turn on and
> announce "installing updates" downloading updates, etc? At the
> moment all I see while updates are downloaded and installed is the
> fedora logo. Now comes my suggestions that won't make it into 3.16
> unless I am very lucky. I'd like to suggest that status icons be
> moved to the top bar, possibly before or after the "settings" menu
> with system hardware, wifi, bluetooth, power, etc, so everything is
> in one place. I'd also like to suggest a "software" item be
> permanently attached to the top bar if gnome software is installed,
> so that the user can check for update manually, configure when
> updates are checked for, etc. I don't think it's possible to
> configure gnome software much at the moment, it checks when it's
> told to. The gnome guys have done a fantastic job with 
> accessibility. I wasn't sure about this new notifications system
> but it's accessible and very handy. Congratulations on a job very
> very well done! I'll file that vte bug so it can get fixed, as well
> as bugs against gnome-control-center if there are any unlabeled
> buttons or duplicates Thanks for reading Kendell clark Sent from
> Fedora GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> kendell clark wrote:
>> hi Sweet, I'll update my test system running f22 and try this.
>> I'll write back in with feedback Thanks Kendell clark Sent from
>> Fedora GNU/Linux
> 
> 
>> Florian Müllner wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:59 PM kendell clark 
>>> <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> But how do I get to applications that formally resided in the
>>>>  message tray without resorting to the mouse? Could a
>>>> keyboard shortcut be added in 3.16 that would jump to that
>>>> area?
> 
> 
>>> It has already been added to the ctrl-alt-tab popup, so it is 
>>> possible to navigate to the area using the keyboard. 
>>> Unfortunately the icons themselves are notoriously bad with 
>>> regard to accessibility though ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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