Improvements to make fedora more accessible to the blind

[Alexander Boström]

fre 2010-04-02 klockan 20:58 +0100 skrev Michael Whapples:

> 2. Once a blind user has the orca screen reader running on the LiveCD, 
> if they select the icon on the desktop to install to HD orca sees the 
> installer window as inaccessible. This is due to the installer running 
> with extra privileges and fedora not being configured to allow orca to 
> work with applications running like this. This can be simply solved by 
> adding a file named /etc/orbitrc containing the following two lines:
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> ORBIIOPUNIX=0

That would probably be a security problem though perhaps it could be
acceptable in a single-user Live environment.

But isn't the Corba interface obsoleted by the move of AT-SPI to D-Bus
anyway?

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/atk/at-spi/at-spi_on_d-bus#Multi-user_accessibility

I don't know if that helps much though.

/Alexander