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Joanmarie Diggs | 17 May 05:02
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Tentatively no team meeting 17 May

Hey all.

The 17th is a bank holiday for some and a vacation day for others. We
don't have anything pressing to discuss tomorrow, so.... Unless anyone
has any objections, let's cancel tomorrow's meeting and resume next week.

Take care.
--joanie
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Joanmarie Diggs | 15 May 00:29
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Announcing Orca v3.4.2

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What is Orca?
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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader
that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech and refreshable braille.

You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

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What's Changed in 3.4.2?
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General

  * Fix for bug 675522 - incorrect comment for translators

  * Prevent gnome-shell notifications from being double-presented

  * Try to handle metacity timeouts more gracefully

  * Fix for bug 674237 - More unicode errors found with hungarian locale

  * Fix for bug 674693 - Modifier keys pressed alone should interrupt
    speech

  * Prevent Orca from interrupting speech in Anaconda trees

Where can I get it?
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Francesco Fumanti | 14 May 21:50
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Announce: mousetweaks 3.4.2

Dear reader,

A new release of mousetweaks is available; the version number is 3.4.2.

It can be downloaded from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/3.4/

Direct download link:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/3.4/mousetweaks-3.4.2.tar.xz (1.94M)
   sha256sum: 7f8a6ae627edae12e0d5b92926c33191bfa504c1ccaf51195051681aedfa700c

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What is mousetweaks ?
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     Mousetweaks is a package that provides mouse accessibility enhancements
     for the GNOME desktop. These enhancements are:

     1. It offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any
     hardware button. (Hover Click)

     2. It allows users to perform a secondary click by keeping the primary
     mousebutton pressed for a determined amount of time. (Simulated
     Secondary Click)

     These enhancements can be accessed through the Universal Access panel
     in the GNOME Control Center or through the command-line interface.

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Distribution Notes:
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Joanmarie Diggs | 10 May 04:14
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Reminder: 2012/05/10 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting

Hey all.

  * Reminder: 2012/05/10 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting
  * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings
  * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting
  * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar

Be there or be square! ;)
--joanie
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Jason White | 7 May 04:58

Wayland

Are there people with backgrounds in accessibility development working with
the Wayland project?

In particular, the accessibility infrastructure will need to be fully
supported on systems that run Wayland without an X server. The latest Wayland
update that I've read mentions keyboard handling as one of the aspects of
Wayland development that is still in flux, hence there may be opportunities
for those who understand the requirements of AT-SPI 2, Orca etc. in this area to
make their requirements known before the relevant APIs are set.
http://lwn.net/Articles/491509/

I know that it will remain possible to run X as a Wayland client, but, given
the current thinking of X and Wayland developers, the norm will be for desktop
environments to use Wayland directly without an X server.
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Joanmarie Diggs | 3 May 17:06
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Brainstorming about Accessible Help

Hey all.

As discussed during last week's team meeting, Shaun is organizing the
Open Help Conference [1] and would like our input. I have created a
"brainstorming" page on our wiki [2] so folks can jot down ideas. Please
add your thoughts.

Thanks and take care.
--joanie

[1] http://http//openhelpconference.com
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/AccessibleHelp
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Joanmarie Diggs | 3 May 05:10
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Reminder: 2012/05/03 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting

Hey all.

  * Reminder: 2012/05/03 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting
  * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings
  * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting
  * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar

Be there or be square! ;)
--joanie
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Joanmarie Diggs | 1 May 01:23
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Announcing Orca v3.5.1

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What is Orca?
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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader
that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech and refreshable braille.

You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

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What's Changed in 3.5.1?
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News
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General

  * Prevent gnome-shell notifications from being double-presented

  * Try to handle metacity timeouts more gracefully

  * Fix for bug 674237 - More unicode errors found with hungarian locale

  * Fix for bug 674693 - Modifier keys pressed alone should interrupt
    speech

  * Prevent Orca from interrupting speech in Anaconda trees
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Joanmarie Diggs | 25 Apr 22:44
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Reminder: 2012/04/25 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting

Hey all.

  * Reminder: 2012/04/25 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting
  * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings
  * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting
  * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar

Be there or be square! ;)
--joanie
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Joanmarie Diggs | 18 Apr 16:53
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Reminder: 2012/04/19 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting

Hey all.

  * Reminder: 2012/04/19 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting
  * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings
  * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting
  * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar

Be there or be square! ;)
--joanie
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Dattatray Bhat | 17 Apr 08:14
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Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

This query is about accessibility of LibreOffice writer document. If this is not the right place for this post, please forgive me and suggest a suitable forum.

I am exploring a LibreOffice writer document using Accerciser.
LibreOffice window: I am at the top of the multipage writer document. Only the first five paragraphs are visible on the screen.
Accerciser window: The tree of accessibles shows only five paragraphs. I store references to the five paragraphs in variables p1, p2, p3, p4, p5 (by giving commands p1=acc, p2=acc, ... in the ipython console). Now p1-p5 hold all information of the five paragraphs. I can get text of the first para with the command 'p1.queryText().getText()'. I can set caret to para 4 with the command 'p4.queryComponent().grabFocus()'.
LibreOffice window: I press PgDown key to move to the next page. The first five paragraphs have now moved out of view.
Accerciser window: I check p1-p5 again. They have lost almost all information and functionality. Command 'p1.getRole()' returns ROLE_PARAGRAPH. But command 'p1.queryText().characterCount' returns 0. Command 'p4.queryComponent().grabFocus()' returns False.

Thus at-spi holds information only for those document elements which are visible on the screen. Can anybody please suggest a way to access the document elements which have moved out of the screen?

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