When will the orca screen reader work again?

2013-06-02 Thread Doug Smith
Hi, all the debian users out there who use adaptive technology. I am writing with a few questions about the situation with orca. First of all, I am glad to be able to use command line, as I do most of my serious computing that way anyhow. I am really glad that this part of the system

Re: broken orca on testing

2013-05-22 Thread Doug Smith
I got it. I just downgraded python-pyatspi and python-pyatspi2. According to the traceback I got from trying to start orca, it appears to be python-pyatspi, but I did them both to be safe. Orca now works. I wonder if it might be possible to ask the developers to pull out those python

Re: broken orca on testing

2013-05-22 Thread Doug Smith
Thanks for the information. I placed the offending packages on hold until the upgrade to the next gnome. When all this has been tested and uploaded, please let us know. It would really be a problem to have to downgrade all of gnome for something of that nature. I hope you have it on here

Re: broken orca on testing

2013-05-22 Thread Mario Lang
Doug Smith savant-technop...@cyber-wizard.com writes: I got it. I just downgraded python-pyatspi and python-pyatspi2. According to the traceback I got from trying to start orca, it appears to be python-pyatspi, but I did them both to be safe. Orca now works. Thanks for the report. I

Re: broken orca on testing

2013-05-21 Thread Jason White
Doug Smith savant-technop...@cyber-wizard.com wrote: Orca was working this afternoon, both before and after the upgrades. After the system was restarted following the updates, no orca. Sound works in gnome, all other aspects of the sound system seem to be fine, but, with no access to orca

Re: broken orca on testing

2013-05-21 Thread Manuel
Hi, It can be a py-at-spi error. I updated my packages, and Orca does not talk after reboot. I saw that the pyat-spi package has been updated. I think that this can be the issue. I only can associate this package (python-pyatspi, or Python-pyatspi2, I am not in Debian and I did not remember

broken orca on testing

2013-05-20 Thread Doug Smith
in either. Orca was working this afternoon, both before and after the upgrades. After the system was restarted following the updates, no orca. Sound works in gnome, all other aspects of the sound system seem to be fine, but, with no access to orca, I am unable to tell you what happens. Here

Bug#706771: gnome-orca: Shutdown manu in Debian 7 is inaccessible

2013-05-04 Thread Jann Schneider
Package: gnome-orca Version: 3.4.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I cannot read the shutdown options in Debian 7 RC2. When i use my users menu in the top menu, navigate down to shutdown and press enter, i can't read anything more. Neither speech or braille is giving anymore output

Bug#706771: gnome-orca: Shutdown manu in Debian 7 is inaccessible

2013-05-04 Thread Jason White
for Gnome 3.6 or 3.8. I think there were changes made to Orca as well. My advice would be to wait until Gnome 3.8 enters unstable or testing, then upgrade. Many accessibility improvements have been made since Gnome 3.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#706544: gnome-orca: No more braille output after restarting orca

2013-05-01 Thread Jann Schneider
Package: gnome-orca Version: 3.4.2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When i run orca for the first time - after login - speech and braille both work fine. After restarting orca i have no more braille output anymore. I quitted orca by pressing Insert + Q and restarted it by pressing Alt

Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Jann Schneider
Package: gnome-orca Version: 3.4.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Currently i have only braille support in the login screen. I can read my username and password: etc. in braille but nothing is spoken. Speech just starts after i've logged in. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0

Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi Jann, On 05/01/2013 03:01 PM, Jann Schneider wrote: Currently i have only braille support in the login screen. I can read my username and password: etc. in braille but nothing is spoken. Speech just starts after i've logged in. So orca is running (giving you braille support

Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Jann Schneider
Hmm, after i've logged in speech is enabled in orca. Only the login screen is affected. Is there an option to switch speech on or off for the login seperatly? 2013/5/1, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org: Hi Jann, On 05/01/2013 03:01 PM, Jann Schneider wrote: Currently i have only

Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 05/01/2013 03:20 PM, Jann Schneider wrote: Hmm, after i've logged in speech is enabled in orca. Only the login screen is affected. Is there an option to switch speech on or off for the login seperatly? Yes, your user session and the gdm session don't share the same settings, so you need

Re: Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Dave Hunt
And, there's the problem. You need accessibility in order to enable accessibility on GDM greeter. You may need a helper to do this, once, for you, after install. If you are the only user, I suppose you can enable automatic login? Can this be done in the installer, as in live systems?

Fwd: Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Jann Schneider
I'm forwarding this mail because i think i have just missed to press 'answer to all'.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jann Schneider jann.schnei...@googlemail.com Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 22:31:21 +0200 Subject: Re: Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen To: Dave Hunt ka1

Re: Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen

2013-05-01 Thread Jann Schneider
: I'm forwarding this mail because i think i have just missed to press 'answer to all'.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jann Schneider jann.schnei...@googlemail.com Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 22:31:21 +0200 Subject: Re: Bug#706548: gnome-orca: No speech in login screen To: Dave

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Sebastian Humenda schrieb am 18.04.2013, 22:29 +0200: I've added a new user and started a GNOME session there. Voilà, it works again like expected. It seems to me, that something in my personal at-spi-settings got Due to lack of time to hunt down the problem, I just copied .c* .g* .l*

Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, after an action I cannot recall, orca does the following: 1. navigation in Iceweasel or even Firefox is impossible, except for tabbing links; the other screen-reader-specific navigation features (h for heading or even the arrow keys) don't work. 2. all features of orca do not work

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Dave Hunt
I experience this sort of thing whenever I use GNOME 3.4.2 on this netbook that has an Atom cpu. In my case, it's a crash of at-spi2-core. earlier and later GNOME releases do not exhibit this behavior. What GNOME version are you using on what processor? You can get functionality back by

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
-core. I'm using Debian Unstable with GNOME 3.4 and Orca 3.4.2. Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog (eng / deu): http://www.crustulus.de/blog Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionary databases - http

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Dave Hunt
MMHM, some other older Intel chip may have the problem with GNOME 3.4. Interestingly, I cannot seem to get the crash on an old Dell laptop having a Pentium MI single-core at 1 GHZ. When I have the crash, no Orca binding works. Also, Orca cannot track the cursor, even in things like gedit

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Dave, Dave Hunt schrieb am 18.04.2013, 15:49 -0400: When I have the crash, no Orca binding works. Also, Orca cannot track the cursor, even in things like gedit windows. I didn't check No, it seems that we are talking about different problems. First of all my problem is there from the very

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello again, I've added a new user and started a GNOME session there. Voilà, it works again like expected. It seems to me, that something in my personal at-spi-settings got garbled, since I've already reconfigured orca. Any ideas on this? Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog (eng

Re: orca at log in using gdm3

2013-04-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Nadeau schrieb am 10.04.2013, 9:53 -0400: i'm running Debian Wheezy. I can't seem to see ow to get Orca to run at the log in. I was told that there are accessibility features in gdm3 but I can't find them. Any help is appreciated. According to http://wiki.debian.org

Re: orca at log in using gdm3

2013-04-10 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Ah Thanks for the heads up. I should have looked there. On 04/10/2013 11:10 AM, Sebastian Humenda wrote: Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Nadeau schrieb am 10.04.2013, 9:53 -0400: i'm running Debian Wheezy. I can't seem to see ow to get Orca to run at the log in. I was told

Re: orca at log in using gdm3

2013-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le Wed 10 Apr 2013 17:10:33 +0200, a écrit : Jonathan Nadeau schrieb am 10.04.2013, 9:53 -0400: i'm running Debian Wheezy. I can't seem to see ow to get Orca to run at the log in. I was told that there are accessibility features in gdm3 but I can't find them. Any help

Re: Orca is not interrupted when a key is pressed in gnome control center

2013-04-09 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, It's an known bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691468 HTH. Halim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

more info Re: gnome-control-center and orca in wheezy

2013-03-02 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691468 Regards Halim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130302080810.GA13753@gentoo.local

capslock issue in orca Re: summary: a11y in wheezy

2013-02-10 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, Well I've no idea why this doesn't work in wheezy. My other machine runs gentoo with orca-3.4.2 which doesn't have any problems with capslock when using laptop keyboard layout. Sorry I've no idea what's wrong here. Regards Halim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ

Bug#696967: marked as done (gnome-orca: Conflict between orca and pavucontrol)

2013-01-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#696967: [orca-list] gnome-orca: Conflict between orca and pavucontrol

2012-12-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joanmarie Diggs, le Sun 30 Dec 2012 09:05:48 -0500, a écrit : Orca 2.30.2? Wow. That's a really old version which has not been maintained for quite some time. Yes, that's the version in Squeeze. Martin, you should probably try the same with Wheezy, which has orca 3.4.2 Samuel

Bug#696967: gnome-orca: Conflict between orca and pavucontrol

2012-12-29 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: gnome-orca Version: 2.30.2-2 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When the program pavucontrol is started on a machine where orca is enabled as a screen reader, orca becomes very slow, and the speech goes silent. The GUI session may even crash or lock up

Processed: bug 696967 is forwarded to orca-l...@gnome.org

2012-12-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: forwarded 696967 orca-l...@gnome.org Bug #696967 [gnome-orca] gnome-orca: Conflict between orca and pavucontrol Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'orca-l...@gnome.org'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance

Re: [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Dave Hunt
on the sonar-project.org website at some point today. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/ Before you start the install you will want to start the orca preferences and choose your keyboard layout. Now press the windows key and type in the word live. This will bring up the installer

Re: [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Dave Hunt
None of the Sonar spins has console speech,. On 12/26/2012 01:25 PM, Alex Midence wrote: Did you get speech in the console? I have a Wheezy server I set up here at work. No Gnome 3.4.2 but I do have a slimmed down gnome classic on here. Console and x both get speech though. -- To

RE: [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Alex Midence
Did you get speech in the console? I have a Wheezy server I set up here at work. No Gnome 3.4.2 but I do have a slimmed down gnome classic on here. Console and x both get speech though. -Original Message- From: orca-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto:orca-list-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf

RE: [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Alex Midence
Rules me out for it then. I use console speech pretty heavily these days for server administration. I'm either on PuTTY or on the console. I like Speakup better than Orca for CLI. Every once in a while I'll fire up Gnome for something but not very much. If I need a desktop environment, I seem

Re: [Support] [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
No i didn't set up consul speech yet. I just did a quick release to see if it could be done. On 12/26/2012 01:31 PM, Dave Hunt wrote: None of the Sonar spins has console speech,. On 12/26/2012 01:25 PM, Alex Midence wrote: Did you get speech in the console? I have a Wheezy server I set up

Re: [Support] [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/ Before you start the install you will want to start the orca preferences and choose your keyboard layout. Now press the windows key and type in the word live. This will bring up the installer. Then it says that the installer itself will use english

Re: [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
or on the console. I like Speakup better than Orca for CLI. Every once in a while I'll fire up Gnome for something but not very much. If I need a desktop environment, I seem to gravitate more and more to Emacspeak. Alex M -Original Message- From: Dave Hunt [mailto:ka1...@gmail.com

Re: [Support] [orca-list] sonar bersion based off of debian sid and wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Dave Hunt
of the fields don't read what you are filling in or what you are saying yes or no to. I will have these instructions on the sonar-project.org website at some point today. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/ Before you start the install you will want to start the orca preferences

Re: Virtualbox/orca

2012-12-21 Thread Francisco Del Roio
El 21/12/12 07:31, Jason White escribió: Daniel Daltond.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: So why does not applications such as skype not work with orca? Isn't that QT just like Virtualbox? It is according to what I've read. However, I use SIP rather than Skype - I don't like undocumented

Re: Virtualbox/orca

2012-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Fri 21 Dec 2012 18:24:27 +1100, a écrit : So why does not applications such as skype not work with orca? Isn't that QT just like Virtualbox? IIRC it doesn't use QT for all of the interface. Everything that is drawn without QT in the interface is thus inaccessible. Samuel

Re: Virtualbox/orca

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:53:21PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Daniel Dalton, le Fri 21 Dec 2012 18:24:27 +1100, a écrit : So why does not applications such as skype not work with orca? Isn't that QT just like Virtualbox? IIRC it doesn't use QT for all of the interface. Everything

Virtualbox/orca

2012-12-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, When I ran ubuntu I was able to use virtualbox with orca to successfully configure and start my windows Xp virtual machine. Under debian after installing virtualbox orca says absolutely nothing inside of the virtualbox windows. Even when I arrow through the menus I hear nothing. How

Re: Virtualbox/orca

2012-12-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:08:13PM +1100, Jason White wrote: Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Under debian after installing virtualbox orca says absolutely nothing inside of the virtualbox windows. Even when I arrow through the menus I hear nothing. How can I correct

Re: Virtualbox/orca

2012-12-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: So why does not applications such as skype not work with orca? Isn't that QT just like Virtualbox? It is according to what I've read. However, I use SIP rather than Skype - I don't like undocumented, proprietary protocols implemented only

Re: speakup, speechd-up and orca

2012-12-13 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, On Do, Nov 22, 2012 at 06:33:09 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: To use alsa you should be able to just disable pulseaudio in rcconf and change speech-dispatcher to use alsa in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.conf Well, I am not aware that the frequently segfaults with alsa driver

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Fri 23 Nov 2012 16:15:13 +1100, a écrit : On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:54:41PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: I can no longer access universal accessibility settings either, from the accessibility menu in the top panel. Redundant now, after reinstalling gnome this works ok.

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:29:47AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Still could not make gdm3 speak That's a bug, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689559 Yes. Thanks. Cheers, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Dalton, le Mon 19 Nov 2012 15:50:25 +1100, a écrit : 1. I've followed the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 automatically logs me in, but I did run the commands to start accessibility and visual

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:41:28AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Daniel Dalton, le Mon 19 Nov 2012 15:50:25 +1100, a écrit : 1. I've followed the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 automatically logs me

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:54:41PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: I can no longer access universal accessibility settings either, from the accessibility menu in the top panel. Redundant now, after reinstalling gnome this works ok. Still could not make gdm3 speak - perhaps I need to follow your

speakup, speechd-up and orca

2012-11-21 Thread admin
the configuration, I rebooted my laptop, and speakup starts to read the console. The problem is when orca is started, speakup can not use espeak, if I close the X session, speakup can talk well. How can make that orca and speakup work correctly? Greetings. p.d. Sorry if my English is bad

Re: speakup, speechd-up and orca

2012-11-21 Thread Daniel Dalton
and besides espeakup will probably be more reliable for you. and speakup starts to read the console. The problem is when orca is started, speakup can not use espeak, if I close the X session, speakup can talk well. Sounds similar to my problem - have a look at my last thread. Sounds like

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:19:54PM +1100, Jason White wrote: Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hmm, sounds like a bit of a tricky one which might require a bit more research into it from me. Is there any disadvantage to use alsa for now? No, other than the Speech-Dispatcher bug

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
: [ 3227.140538] synth probe Nov 21 13:02:32 debian-laptop kernel: [ 3227.140654] initialized device: /dev/softsynth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 26) The speech is also choppy with both espeakup (speakup/espeak) and emacspeak/espeak. Orca speech is perfect and has not crashed once (using speech-dispatcher

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: This bug is still present, and is now extended to speakup which also crashes. eSpeakup is crashing every 30 seconds to the point where it is almost unusable. I tried it on my laptop and it all works fine here with PulseAudio installed - no words

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
on... I don't know what to suggest. Either get the Speech-Dispatcher bug fixed and use Alsa, or have the PulseAudio issues sorted out. I can't reproduce those problems on my laptop. While on vacation time it's fine to use just orca and to deal with these emacspeak bugs, but when I need to do

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hmm, how does your /etc/asound file look, or ~/.asoundrc file? There is no /etc/asound file and ~/.asoundrc no longer exists - I deleted it after PulseAudio was installed because I no longer needed the Alsa mixer configuration that I had put in

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:26:02PM +1100, Jason White wrote: Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hmm, how does your /etc/asound file look, or ~/.asoundrc file? There is no /etc/asound file and ~/.asoundrc no longer exists - I deleted it after PulseAudio was installed because I no

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-20 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: /etc/asound.conf, actually, sorry my mistake, but I guess you probably knew anyway. Yes. Seems removing that file for me had no effect, and if anything things work marginally better, but I still have pretty much the same problems, sigh.

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:27:39PM +1100, Jason White wrote: Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: 1. I've followed the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility However, I stil do not get orca coming up at start up. gdm3 automatically logs me in, but I did run

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:37:55AM -0500, Trevor Saunders wrote: 2. occasionally speech-dispatcher will crash. This requires the speech-dispatcher and orca instance to be killed and orca restarted. I couldn't find anything in the /var/log/speech-dispatcher dir, but I only found

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: It doesn't look particularly good to me. Anyway doing what you said works, but in the process I've found another issue - I can't use the universal accessibility settings. You should be able to use gsetting from the shell to change the configuration

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Perhaps as Jason suggested I will contact the speech-dispatcher list. That's a good idea, and if you can install the speech-dispatcher-dbg package and obtain a backtrace from a core file, this should help to identify the cause. I'm using PulseAudio

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:27:47PM +1100, Jason White wrote: I'm using PulseAudio under Gnome, hence not seeing the bug. How to use pulseaudio without everything else breaking? I install it just now and although speech-dispatcher works ok with pulse, everything else is broken due to the device

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:27:47PM +1100, Jason White wrote: I'm using PulseAudio under Gnome, hence not seeing the bug. How to use pulseaudio without everything else breaking? I install it just now and although speech-dispatcher works ok with

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-19 Thread Jason White
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hmm, sounds like a bit of a tricky one which might require a bit more research into it from me. Is there any disadvantage to use alsa for now? No, other than the Speech-Dispatcher bug that ought to be fixed anyway (assuming that you don't need

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Trevor Saunders
2. occasionally speech-dispatcher will crash. This requires the speech-dispatcher and orca instance to be killed and orca restarted. I couldn't find anything in the /var/log/speech-dispatcher dir, but I only found this relevant line from my syslog: 15:10:26 debian-laptop kernel

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Jason White
Trevor Saunders trev.saund...@gmail.com wrote: There's a known issue with alsa audio playback code in speech dispatcher that this sounds like. Is there a patch that could be submitted for Debian Wheezy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Some troubles with Gnome/Orca

2012-11-18 Thread Trevor Saunders
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:45:45PM +1100, Jason White wrote: Trevor Saunders trev.saund...@gmail.com wrote: There's a known issue with alsa audio playback code in speech dispatcher that this sounds like. Is there a patch that could be submitted for Debian Wheezy? afaik nobody has

Bug#667525: gnome-orca desktop menu entry should only be visible in GNOME

2012-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 667525 + wontfix thanks Hello, Ronny Standtke, le Wed 04 Apr 2012 19:28:34 +0200, a écrit : I use a system with both KDE and GNOME installed. As gnome-orca is almost useless when running KDE, No, KDE applications are accessible to orca thanks to the qt-at-spi bridge. Samuel

Processed: Re: Bug#667525: gnome-orca desktop menu entry should only be visible in GNOME

2012-09-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 667525 + wontfix Bug #667525 [gnome-orca] gnome-orca desktop menu entry should only be visible in GNOME Added tag(s) wontfix. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 667525: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: setting orca in the startup applications

2012-09-05 Thread Jason White
to be visible? I would like it visible so I can put Orca in the startup applications so that way Orca starts right at boot. By right at boot, do you mean at the gdm login? If so, I don't know what the current state of this is in Debian but it should be possible to do, perhaps with a significant amount

Re: setting orca in the startup applications

2012-09-05 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
suggestions on what I have to do in order for the startup applications to be visible? I would like it visible so I can put Orca in the startup applications so that way Orca starts right at boot. By right at boot, do you mean at the gdm login? If so, I don't know what the current state

setting orca in the startup applications

2012-09-04 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Orca in the startup applications so that way Orca starts right at boot. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Home page http://www.jnadeau.org Accessible Computing Foundation http://www.accessiblecomputingfoundation.org Northeast GNU/Linux Fest http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org Webmail

Re: orca dependency problems wheezy

2012-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, am_d...@fastmail.fm, le Fri 29 Jun 2012 07:56:41 -0400, a écrit : The old at-spi package depended on libgail-common but seems to have been replaced by libatk-adaptor which provides a virtual package for at-spi. Should libatk-adaptor or maybe a similar package have a dependency for

Bug#682915: gnome-orca should depend on libgail-common

2012-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le Fri 27 Jul 2012 03:39:38 +0200, a écrit : you should add libgail-common as dependency, so that it's installed with orca. Since it's python-atspi2 which depends on libatk-adaptor for orca, I have made it depend on libgail-common too (bug already reassigned

Bug#682915: marked as done (gnome-orca should depend on libgail-common)

2012-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:17:41 + with message-id e1t5ygd-ja...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#682915: fixed in pyatspi 2.5.3+dfsg-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #682915, regarding gnome-orca should depend on libgail-common to be marked as done. This means

gnome accessible login with orca failed

2012-08-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I was the one trying after installing the desktop environment in tasksel to get orca talking and couldn't make anything work when trying to log in. I think I discovered a couple more problems which once fixed ought to get me a little further. The /etc/default/speech-dispatcher file on line 4

Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-12 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Can you explain: I believed that installing desktop via tasksel installed gdm. So what do zou do to have speakup environment? Moreover, can you say if, if you can log in on gdm3, pressing Alt-F2 then running orca works? And finally, maybe test orca -t alone in a console. Regards, Jean

Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
So far as I can tell, gdm3 starts but I never get to a login area. That could change when I get some sighted assistance watching the screen as I start the system up in the future. Support your local church or synagogue, worship at Bank Of America!

gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
After having done install desktop environment from tasksel, I ran orca --text-setup in the speakup environment and after setup was finished was told orca couldn't connect to the desktop because the DISPLAY variable was not set. I don't know if debian ought to have set this variable somewhere

Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
another problem I think I've solved was that when orca --text-setup was run, no language or synthesizer questions were asked. I ran spd-conf -C and chose en for the language and alsa for the output technology. Next time I boot the system I'll find out if any of this worked. On Sat, 11 Aug

Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-11 Thread Jason White
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: After having done install desktop environment from tasksel, I ran orca --text-setup in the speakup environment and after setup was finished was told orca couldn't connect to the desktop because the DISPLAY variable was not set. I don't know

Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
EDT On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: To get speakup all I needed to do was hit the s key and hit enter at the installer disk's boot prompt. I'll try logging in through gdm3 and see if I can get orca running that way. On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, Can

Re: gnome-orca install failure on beta installer

2012-08-11 Thread Jason White
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Script started on Sat 11 Aug 2012 11:17:08 PM EDT root@d-24-153-41-134:~# gdm3 ** (gdm3:14898): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager ** (gdm3:14898): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out root@d-24-153-41-134:~# exit

Bug#683352: gnome-orca: Preferences menu: problem setting customized shortcuts

2012-08-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le Tue 31 Jul 2012 02:31:04 +0200, a écrit : I use orca on wheezy. I want to customise my keyboard shortcuts of orca. For instance, I'd like it to read date and clock with ins+F12 (double) and ins+F12. 1. On Date item in Keyboard shortcuts tab, I do orca+F12 F12

Bug#683352: gnome-orca: Preferences menu: problem setting customized shortcuts

2012-07-30 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Package: gnome-orca Version: 3.4.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I use orca on wheezy. I want to customise my keyboard shortcuts of orca. For instance, I'd like it to read date

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-29 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le dimanche 29 juillet 2012 à 09:21 +1000, Jason White a écrit : Jean-Philippe MENGUAL mengualjean...@free.fr wrote: So if I sum up what I understand (tell me if I do a mistake): to I already explained: cp /usr/share/applications/orca.desktop ~/.config/autostart Ah ok sorry, I didn't think

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-29 Thread Jason White
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL mengualjean...@free.fr wrote: Yes I've tried. It says that I should, in System settings, find a Personal tab and, inside, Startup application. I don't find. Do you know where I can find this setting on Debian? No. Someone more familiar with Gnome 3.4 should be able to

Orca and setting keyboard shortcuts

2012-07-29 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, To be efficient, here's immediately an example of the situation. Let's suppose I want orca+f12 say the clock, and orca+f12 (double) says the date. I start with setting the clock: orca+F12. Then, if I do, at date option, orca+F12+F12, I get F12 only. If I do Orca+F12 (double) (date

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-28 Thread Jason White
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL mengualjean...@free.fr wrote: With my Wheezy, I try running orca automatically at the starting of gnome. For this, in System Parameters, Universal Access, I check Enable screen reader. I added it as a startup application to the desktop instead. But when orca starts

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-28 Thread Jason White
I'm sure there's a desktop option to do it, but you can make Orca start when Gnome is loaded by copying orca.desktop into ~/.config/autostart I think this is exactly what the Gnome tools do, but of course it's faster from the shell with the cp command. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-28 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, So if I sum up what I understand (tell me if I do a mistake): to start orca while the desktop runs, we have 2 solutions. One, with Universal Access, but it doesn't work (in my opinion, it's a bug), seems it's from a gnome's choice. The other is to add to the desktop startup. How can I do

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-28 Thread Jason White
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL mengualjean...@free.fr wrote: So if I sum up what I understand (tell me if I do a mistake): to start orca while the desktop runs, we have 2 solutions. One, with Universal Access, but it doesn't work (in my opinion, it's a bug), seems it's from a gnome's choice. The other

Re: Orca shortcuts

2012-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, (writting with my release assistant hat on, and cc-ing the release team accordingly.) Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net (29/07/2012): It's unrealistic to expect the accessibility to work smoothly in 3.4, which will be released with Wheezy. For example, the log-out dialogue is not

Orca shortcuts

2012-07-27 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, With my Wheezy, I try running orca automatically at the starting of gnome. For this, in System Parameters, Universal Access, I check Enable screen reader. But when orca starts, no shortcuts are available (I mean orca's shortcuts). No key works (I cannot do ins+t, ins+f, etc.). I only get

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