[Fedora-livecd-list] Possible OK Button (A11y) Bug

[Janina Sajka]

Jeremy Katz writes:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:36 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Part way through the boot an error came up about accessibility support.
> > It's enabled by default, the error said, but the AT-SPI module required
> > for a11y support was missing. "Press OK to continue," the message said.
> 
> Yes -- this is a race condition that was noticed, but in the "need to
> get something out" rush, it was deemed okay for the first test release.
No problem. I certainly support progress over unattainable perfection.

> It's filed as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227214.  Note that
> you can also hit this on a real system, but it's less likely since hard
> disks are a lot faster than reading from CD :)
Ah! Thank you.

> 
> > 1.)	I am particularly delighted to see a11y on by default, of
> > course. I would be. I do recall this was a testing decision for Gnome
> > 2.17. But that raises another point: If not on after release, is there
> > thought on how would handle this need on the fly?
> 
> David has some ideas here involving gdm, the face browser, and a11y in
> gdm.  I'll let him expound further
OK. Understood. GDM is supposed to allow us to do gestures like "hold
Ctrl-S for 5 seconds to start speech," or "Ctrl-M for 5 seconds to start
magnification." This is currently broken on all Linux, I believe, and
only working on Solaris.

> 
> > 2.)	The real problem I encountered may be much more than missing
> > AT-SPI. The OK button was not keyboardable, meaning I could not press
> > enter to dismiss it. I had to get my sighted colleague to put the mouse
> > cursor on it and click it away.
> > 
> > Here's my concern: Is this possibly only this dialog? Or any similar
> > "missing something or other" dialog? If the latter, do I Bugzilla this
> > in Gnome? On Fedora?
> 
> The only place I've seen anything like it is this dialog.  So I think
> it's just a big with how the specific dialog is (and where it is in the
> startup sequence of the session).  So it should hopefully be resolved
> when the actual bug is fixed
OK. Thanks. I appreciate the reassurance.

Janina

> 
> Jeremy
> 
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