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GNOME Accessibility Team

Grace Hopper Open Source Day 2012

Introduction

Accessibility Bug Triaging is Hard, But Don't Go Shopping!

Triaging accessibility bugs can be difficult given there are so many places any given bug could be: In the assistive technology, in the accessibility libraries, in the application being accessed, or in that application's toolkit. But with a little bit of Accessibility 101 and the love of a good challenge, you too can become an incredible source of help to our small team.

Preparation

You'll need a machine with GNOME 3.6 installed. If you don't have one, please bring a performant laptop with VirtualBox installed. You will also want to be sure you have enabled virtualization technology support in your BIOS. If you are unsure how to do either of these things, please contact a facilitator at or before the start of the session.

Please bring headphones if possible for use with Orca.

You will be provided with a USB drive with a virtual machine image of Fedora 18 (GNOME 3.6) which you will install at the beginning of the session. The introductory content below will be presented and discussed so that everyone has an overview of what Orca is and how GNOME Accessibility works, along with some strategies to accomplish the tasks for today.

Presentation Content

Bugs to Triage (and Optionally Fix)

Steps

  1. Pick one of the bugs below to triage.
  2. Indicate you are working on this bug by adding your name.
  3. Use the flow diagram and triage the bug.
  4. Once the bug has been triaged and updated in Bugzilla, pick another bug.
  5. Optional: If you think you can fix the bug, you will find git and the GNOME development libraries on your VM.

Reminders

  1. When in doubt, ask. We're glad you are here and happy to help you. :)

  2. See number 1.

Bug List

Bug Description

First Name

Orca doesn't announce the window name while cycling via alt+esc

Beth/Dina

Slowness with Orca if using control-center 3.6

Orca not reading changed text in Libreoffice in right way

Elise

LibreOffice Writer text not spoken after the application regains focus

Miria

In Thunderbird 14.0 e-mail address auto completion results are not spoken

Diana

In Nautilus iconview Orca doesn't announce always the file selection changes

Monisha

Setting dynamic row header and dynamic column header keystroke not always work

Aishwarya

orca 3.3.4-0 ubuntu precise daily 1/29/12. transmission-gtk does not read torrent list

Orca does speak position index in GNOME panel submenus

Maria

Orca sometimes crashes when Firefox is quit

sulochana

Totem movie player utube results not presented by Orca

Diana

Orca repeats the To: field info when Tabbing in Thunderbird message composition window

Monisha

Orca repeats typed characters in Thunderbird message composition window

Emily

Orca isn't speaking the right selection state changes in Writer

Miria

Window title spoken when shift tabbing to headers in thunderbird

Diana

Evolution's "Show" and "in" combo boxes items are not accessible with Orca

Leah/Liene

Orca does not update Braille when deleting openoffice autoinsertion

evolution message list should accessible via orca

Leah/Liene

Missing accessible names on toggle buttons and images in UI

Shriya

Orca is unable to speak the usernames/IM names of chat participants in flat review

Miria

Orca keybindings not working in empathy

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