Re: Ubuntu egdy and BRLTTY

2006-10-02 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Jason: Do you have information on what Orca should be doing to properly set up a connection with BrlTTY? As far as I know, Orca is making the appropriate API calls. There may be something else, such as a BrlAPI key or something else that is needed to be done on the BrlTTY side for Orca to be

Re: Ubuntu egdy and BRLTTY

2006-10-02 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Jason: Having said that, I couldn't get it to work under Debian, but there are other, larger problems with trying to run Orca under my Debian installation anyway and I haven't had time to identify the cause or solve the problems. Unfortunately, we don't have resources to test/develop Orca

Hands Free Mouse Issues

2006-10-02 Thread Anna Marie Dirks
Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying the beginnings of autumn (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere) or spring (in the Southern Hemisphere). I am trying to make a purchase decision, and I need some advice from you. Does anyone here use a hands-free mouse? I need to buy a head-controlled mouse,

Re: Hands Free Mouse Issues

2006-10-02 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Peter Korn wrote: Hi Anna, There are two head-mice that present themselves as USB mice: the Madentec Tracker (see http://www.madentec.com/products/comaccess/tracker/tracker.html) and Origin Systems HeadMouse (see http://orin.com/access/headmouse/index.htm). Both cost roughly $1,000.

Re: Hands Free Mouse Issues

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Henrik, There are two head-mice that present themselves as USB mice: the Madentec Tracker (see http://www.madentec.com/products/comaccess/tracker/tracker.html) and Origin Systems HeadMouse (see http://orin.com/access/headmouse/index.htm). Both cost roughly $1,000. ... It would be

Re: Hands Free Mouse Issues

2006-10-02 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Peter Korn wrote: I agree with Peter that those are the devices that are known to work, but it would be very nice to get the SmartNav or similar working since it's so affordable. Perhaps I should get one and challenge the Ubuntu community to write a driver ... Or perhaps a Google Summer

RE: Live CD of Ubuntu 6.10, Orca and Brltty

2006-10-02 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Petra. I just followed your instructions with an Alva Braille Terminal running as a USB device via serial to USB adapter. Your step 4 is open the terminal. I wasn't sure if you meant got into the virtual console with Control Alt F1 or launched gnome-terminal, so I tried both ways. The

Which programs are you using?

2006-10-02 Thread Bram Duvigneau
Hi all, I'm running Archlinux with Orca at the moment and I'm looking around what programs are usable for my daily tasks. OpenOffice seems to work OK for basic office stuff, I can't read the messagelist in Evolution, but I'm still figuring out why, further it looks like a good and accessible

Re: Which programs are you using?

2006-10-02 Thread Anna Marie Dirks
Bram, I think that a list of the type you suggest is a great idea. I've been keeping one of my own which I would like to share with you. I would also like to help this community find a centralized place where we can store this kind of information. The Gnome Accessibility Project webpage on the

Re: Which programs are you using?

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Parente
Hi Anna, Perhaps starting a page on the http://live.gnome.org wiki would be a good idea? That way, as people use Orca, LSR, and other ATs/test tools, they can share what works and what doesn't for them. If people come up with workarounds, they can also post those and later remove them as