intro from a new xfce user

[kendell clark]

Hi all
I've just begun using arch linux and have recently discovered the joys 
of xfce and it's wonderful accessibility. I'm just writing to say hello 
and to hopefully be helpful in the continued development of xfce's 
accessibility. I do have a few questions however. I'm using arch linux, 
latest updates as of 10 pm november 1, 2012. the testing repositories 
are not enabled, and i"m running xfce 4.10, and orca 3.6. there are some 
components of xfce taht I cannot get to in orca, mostly the panel and 
the settings manager doesn't seem to read. Does anyone know if this is 
possible? Also, Are there any plans to improve thunar's accessibility? I 
can only get orca to read the items by setting the directory tree to 
active, and that is sometimes hit or miss.
My final question is reguarding xfce's notification support. Orca 
doesn't see xfce's notifications unless I have the notify-osd package 
installed, and then it reads them fine. I'm not complaining in any way, 
i much much prefer xfce to gnome 3, which has become steadily slower and 
slower, and i'm not interested in a tablet like interface anyway.
Thanks
Kendell clark