GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614831
Junta de Andalucia tasks - Metabug
Last modified: 2012-04-08 17:03:02 UTC
A regional government in Spain (the Andalucia one, to be precise) has put up a public offer for a11y work in their local Linux distribution (Guadalinex), with one of the 3 main tasks being various Orca modifications. One area of interest identified in the government's proposal is to make it easier for users familiar with JAWS for Windows to become Orca users. Presumably, another area of interest to the Spanish government would be to make it easier for Orca users to access content in multiple languages. The purpose of this "metabug" is to start identifying existing Orca bugs/RFEs consistent with the goals in the proposal and later provide a means to track the work being done by the grant recipient.
Taking a first pass at this.... To be clear: It is not expected that every item I just added as a "depends" will be addressed by the grant recipient. I fully expect that we'll add new items to the list and remove some of the ones I've just added based on further consideration and consultation with the grant recipient.
To begin with the first objective/task we need to focus on some bugs performance/stability issues related. Many JAWS users more than difficult, find Orca slow/crash in some areas. I think at first we should have fast/stable speech responsiveness and the way is to better integrate Speech dispatcher, or improve Gnome speech support? On current Guadalinfo centers (correct me if I am wrong) are using Guadalinex V6 (Ubuntu 9.04 based) with GNOME 2.26 so GNOME Speech is the speech engine used. But GNOME Speech is marked for deprecation in the future in favour of Speech dispatcher/Open TTS or whatever that can play in DBUS/independent communication mechanict. So I would add and look at bug #601258, bug #440114, bug #618334, bug 609900, bug #612405, specially bug #606975. Comments?
Javier, those bugs are fine with me if they're fine with everyone else. My goal with this metabug was twofold: 1. Look for existing Orca bugs and RFEs which (to me) seemed like the might be appropriate 2. Identify things which (for the most part) the active Orca team isn't working on. After all, it would be a drag for someone to take the time to figure out how to fix an issue only to discover we fixed it the previous week. We could definitely use some help with those bugs you listed in comment #2. Thanks!
Joanie, can you add bugs pointed by Javier to this metabug ? I want to track them and as Javier say we want to soften the learning curve to users from other systems (like JAWS). Thanks in advance.
I can do you one better (I think). If I assign this bug to you, you *should* be able to add and remove bugs to this one. We'll find out anyway.... (If not, yeah, I'll update the list.)
Thanks, Joanie. I can update it.
(In reply to comment #2) > To begin with the first objective/task we need to focus on some bugs > performance/stability issues related. Many JAWS users more than difficult, find > Orca slow/crash in some areas. I think at first we should have fast/stable > speech responsiveness and the way is to better integrate Speech dispatcher, or > improve Gnome speech support? > On current Guadalinfo centers (correct me if I am wrong) are using Guadalinex > V6 (Ubuntu 9.04 based) with GNOME 2.26 so GNOME Speech is the speech engine > used. But GNOME Speech is marked for deprecation in the future in favour of > Speech dispatcher/Open TTS or whatever that can play in DBUS/independent > communication mechanict. So I would add and look at bug #601258, bug #440114, > bug #618334, bug 609900, bug #612405, specially bug #606975. > > Comments? Only one fix to the info: * Guadalinfo distro is based on Ubuntu 9.10 with GNOME 2.28, Speech Dispatcher version 0.6.7
Dear Alejandro, Things that you put against this ticket should be bugs that you are intrested in fixing or have fixed. Therefore I am removing some bugs that I closed. Thanks.
This project has long since ended. So I'm closing this tracker down.