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

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Feb 23 19:17:44 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:35 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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.
> [snip]
> > 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.
> 
> And something obvious that Ray pointed out to me today when I hit it
> again (drats, I was hoping it would just get fixed upstream) is that if
> you move the mouse just to the upper right corner, then the dialog has
> focus and you can press enter.
> 
> But I think I might try to see what's causing it here shortly

Okay, that was ridiculous.  There's a check to see if the at registry
starts within n seconds (was 2 seconds in test1, has increased to 5
now... but that's still not always enough).  Put in a quick fix for
test2 and then we'll get a real fix afterwards

Jeremy




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