Improvements to make fedora more accessible to the blind

[Michael Whapples]

Yes I think it may pose possible security issues (I don't actually know and 
have never heard what they are). I would only really suggest it for the Live 
environment, the installed system it should only exist if the user really 
needs it.

As for the bit of corba being depricated, yes that is the way its going but 
currently the at-spi stuff on dbus isn't fully ready so gnome accessibility 
still uses corba. I don't know when at-spi on dbus should be ready, I think 
there's a bit of an issue of alot to do but not quite enough to get it done 
as quick as might be desired.

Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Boström" <abo at root.snowtree.se>
To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" 
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Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Improvements to make fedora more accessible to the blind


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