glaux
December 9th, 2008, 10:53 PM
Hi,
in ubuntu 8.10 orca provides a new feature. You can enable 'speak text under mouse pointer' in general preferences.
Thats a great improvement because partially sighted users can review a window, the magnification zoom follows the view and the text is spoken at the same time.
Using flat review mode, the zoomed view remains at cursor position.
Unfortunately there seems to be a bug with most applications.
If you open an ap window, for example gedit or firefox and move the mouse over the window, the desktop behind will be spoken instead.
The top controlpanel menus (ap, sys,places) will be spoken too, although they aren't open.
That's very confusing and you cannot use the mouse review mode.
The single nautilus seems to work.
Is this a known bug or can anyone help me to fix this?
hlaux
in ubuntu 8.10 orca provides a new feature. You can enable 'speak text under mouse pointer' in general preferences.
Thats a great improvement because partially sighted users can review a window, the magnification zoom follows the view and the text is spoken at the same time.
Using flat review mode, the zoomed view remains at cursor position.
Unfortunately there seems to be a bug with most applications.
If you open an ap window, for example gedit or firefox and move the mouse over the window, the desktop behind will be spoken instead.
The top controlpanel menus (ap, sys,places) will be spoken too, although they aren't open.
That's very confusing and you cannot use the mouse review mode.
The single nautilus seems to work.
Is this a known bug or can anyone help me to fix this?
hlaux