keyboard accessibility doesn't behave properly

[davidr]

HARDY AMD64 and i386
REFERS ALSO TO FEISTY i386 and GUTSY i386
Microsoft Wireless Multi-media Keyboard 1.0A

PACAKAGE: according to xprop | grep WM_CLASS: gnome-at-properties
However the package appears not to be known in the "Which package..." selection

I set Assistive Technologies Preferences>Keyboard Accessibility/Keyboard Preferences:

Allow to turn accessibility features on and off from the keyboard - NOT TICKED
Simulate simultaneous keypress - ticked
Disable sticky keys if two keys are pressed together - NOT TICKED

Notifications:
Beep when accessibility features are turned on or off - ticked
Beep when a toggle key is pressed - ticked
Beep when a modifier key is pressed - ticked.

These settings work as expecteded EXCEPT:
pressing Caps Lock DOES NOT BEEP - it should
BUT
pressing a modifier key and another key at the same time TURNS OFF THESE SETTINGS - it shouldn't as Disable sticky keys if two keys are pressed together is NOT TICKED.

I can not express strongly enough how grossly inconvenient the latter is. All settings have to be re-done dozens of times a day.

Nor can I express strongly enough how alienated bugs in Accessibility/Assistive Technologies make us who need them, feel.

Please, please can Accessibilty features be fixed - this bug I am reporting has been with Ubuntu since I first used it (Edgy). You will never get 'importance' high on this by numbers or by reports such is the ratio of users. But thinking beyond numbers - does Ubuntu want to ignore or embrace those who need these features?

[truant (launchpad-ninj4)]

just confirming this for Hardy AMD64. I haven't seen it in previous AMD64 versions of ubuntu.

staggeringly frustrating for those of us that rely on access helpers.

[pauls (paulatgm)]

Take a look at bug 191181 and see if it works for you.

HTH