Hi Michael:
I'd suggest reading the Gnome Accessibility Guide, in particular the
Appendices, and also the Gnopernicus manual. This information may help
you in setting up fullscreen magnification.
Also note that, if you are using Festival as your text-to-speech engine,
you will need to modify
Michael/All:
I forgot to include the URI for the Gnome Accessibility Guide:
http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/
It's also available with most Gnome distributions, from the Help browser
select Desktop and then Accessibility Guide.
Bill
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Hi Jason
The GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY environment variable has been deprecated for
years, so there's still possibly some mystery in your setup. Are you
sure you had the /gnome/desktop/interface/accessibility gconf key set to
true ? The latter is the recommended way of enabling assistive
Hi Darragh:
Festival changed the way it uses the network in recent releases. I
believe the file '/etc/festival.scm' needs to be edited to add
permissions to localhost.
Here is a pointer to one of the list archive articles, if this is indeed
your problem:
Hi Godspeed
If 'none of the options are working' in gnopernicus then I believe that
your machine is not configured properly. It may be that one or more
packages required for accessibility were omitted from the packages.
A few things to point out: you should be running the Gnome desktop, not
Hi Terrence:
There are currently issues with using the magnifier in horizontal
splitscreen mode, i.e. at the bottom of the screen, as opposed to the
left or right hand side. See bugzilla bug 171465
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171465 It sounds as if this
problem is what you are
Also Terrence:
The no speech problem is probably due to changes in the festival
speech synthesis system which require you to modify a file called
festival.scm. Please see the recent archives of this list for
discussion of no speech with Festival issues. Knowing your distro
will help us
Willem
Sun Mozilla should be your best bet. I am not sure you've explained
what problems you are encountering as you try to run it; of course we
need information about your distro, platform, versions, etc. before we
can help.
regards
Bill
Willem van der Walt wrote:
Hi,
Which browser,
Peter:
You should install gnome-common after you make it. After that the
autogens of the other packages should work fine. Note also that you
will need gnome-mag as well, and working, recent gnome2 development
packages for the gnome core and desktop modules.
Bill
Peter Rayner wrote:
Jason:
I believe the problem is Firefox - and I think this has come up on this
list before. It seems that Firefox is not nearly as accessible as the
mozilla 1.7 series, even without the still-outstandinf Sun accessibility
fixes.
Bill
Jason Grieves wrote:
Hello,
I have Firefox compiled
Aditya Pandey wrote:
Hi
Prior to acquiring some of speech synthesizers, I am trying to find
out more on them. Is there a some text available on gnome-speech
supported speech synthesizers like their download/purchase links,
comparison on features/pricing etc.?
Since we don't want to
product) that can be selected as preferences.
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Jason Grieves wrote:
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Hi Jason:
I think I understand your writeup a bit better. I still think that it
would be nice if we could fold it into the Accessibility Guide somehow -
perhaps as an appendix or chapter? Because the Accessibility Guide is a
hypertext document, we could use links to lead the reader/user to
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:27, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Hi Sun folks other listers.
Hi Sebastien and all:
Bill Haneman :
Samuel Thibault wrote:
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They say open source is not accessible, which is wrong, but what is
true is open source is not yet really
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Hi Sun folks other listers.
Bill Haneman :
Samuel Thibault wrote:
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They say open source
Hi Olivier:
I believe the message should say now running, instead of not
running. A couple of things to look out for; note that you will have
to restart your bonobo-activation-server after adding a new gnome-speech
driver, before it will appear in the list of available drivers. Also,
it
Because Speech Dispatcher uses GPL and not LGPL, it is limited in terms
of what drivers it can support due to license incompatibility issues. I
believe we have a speech dispatcher driver contributed for gnome-speech
that is in the queue for integration as time permits.
Bill
Kenny Hitt
Hi Jason:
If you want your magnifier to follow the mouse in fullscreen mode, you
need to specify the -m option along with the others on your command
line. Otherwise, it's just awaiting instructions from some other client
such as gnopernicus.
Note also that for more featureful
Darragh:
I've used gnome-speech drivers for Theta with very good results. So far
this seems to be the best choice for quality, cost, and reliability so
far. However, I don't know what the availability of the Theta voices is
like at the moment, as Cepstral has moved to a new product which
Hi Hank:
That's Theta, T H E T A. Cepstral, the company that produces them, is
now producing voices for their new engine, called 'Swift'. You can hear
demos of the voices here:
http://www.cepstral.com/demos/
I am not sure how accessible that web page is, but it looks like a
standard
Hello everyone:
I would like to draw your attention to a statement which the Gnome and KDE
Accessibility Projects, and the Free Standards Group's Accessibility Workgroup
(FSGA), have prepared regarding
the plans and intentions of their projects with respect to interoperability and
Hi Carlos:
Perhaps we should move further technical discussion to the
gnome-accessibility-devel list.
One comment I'd like to make concerns the relationship of X (the X
server and apis) to the magnification issues we face. Because X is
quite a mature standard and a central part of our
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Concerning the dependencies of a common transcription library, I am
afraid it would be difficult to do without glib: there are few good
portable libraries that I know which can handle unicode (IBM ICU, Apache
apr, Qt...) and glib is one of the most complete and IMHO
Hi Jan:
Please be more specific about use of ISO-Latin2. Gnopernicus currently
supports UTF-8 internationalization. It also supports the use of UTF-8
for speech, provided a suitable speech engine is available. Its braille
internationalization is currently somewhat limited; a complete
by one
braille cell, so I am not sure which non-ASCII characters can be
implemented. Perhaps its just a matter of building the appropriate
braille table for your mapping of 8-bit characters to Latin-2.
Remus?
Bill
Jan Buchal wrote:
BH == Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Peter Korn wrote:
Hi guys,
I rather like David's idea.
Yes; also I think the notion of user profiles makes sense. We could
have various accessibility-scenario-related sets of gconf setting
grouped together in user profiles, and this generic mechanism could help
with usability for users
of
gaim to the terminal window when it launches, to confirm that libgail
and atk-bridge are both being loaded successfully?
thanks
Bill
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:19 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
HI Cody:
The problems you are having are related but have slightly different root
causes. In order
Hi Darragh:
First, I think you'll need to turn off sound events, because they can
conflict with speech on some systems.
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false
Then make sure esd is on:
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd true
There should be a
HI Darragh
I'm afraid that YaST (the graphical version, at least) is not
accessible, because of the way it is constructed and implemented. The
YaST graphical toolkit does not talk to the gnome accessibility
infrastructure, and I don't believe that it can be made to do so without
Hi Ian
Welcome to the list! Firstly I hope that someone on the list can
provide you with enough specific information to enable you to install
Linux+GNOME without any hitches. Personally I don't track the Ubuntu
distro mailing lists, so I don't know what specific issues people may
have had
Hi Krister:
Fullscreen magnification can be used without a second monitor now, and
it does work reasonably well, especially if you have a recent X server
(preferably XOrg 11.6.8.1).
You will need to enable the dummy driver which gives you a virtual
second screen, and then you can magnify
, there are available for public view at
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/sanity-testing/index.html
best regards,
- Bill
Jason White wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Bill Haneman wrote:
I'd be grateful for anything that distros or other maintainers can do to
help expedite getting these patches
Hi Aditya
The 'fuzzy locale matching' was added to gnome-speech version 0.3.5,
released in August 2004. Perhaps your Fedora-core version is older.
- Bill
Aditya Pandey wrote:
When I pass language as en on Sun Desktop system machine, getVoices
API (test-speech) returns the voices (like
Jan Buchal wrote:
If I start gnopernicus it speak only some messages. Switch to window,
create new window etc. for example but not speak a content. However if
I press CTRL-ESCAPE, then gnopernicus speak correctly. This is necessary
do in every new window.
This is very strange, as CTRL-ESCAPE
Aditya Pandey wrote:
Ok, found and fixed it. The freetts-synthesis-driver turned out to be
a script which defines its own classpath.
Bad value was:
Jan Buchal wrote:
Hello,
I would like use gnopernicus with Czech festival voice. In gnopernicus
setting I do not find any possibility change it. The gnopernicus offer
two English voice only. However my festival use more as these voices.
Spanish an Czech for example. What i need setup in
Zsolnai Laszlo wrote:
Hello,
Originally in the gnome-speech's Festival driver these twoo english
voices are hardcoded.
Fernando Herrera wrote a very nice patch in order to solve this problem.
See this link:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2005-February/msg00112.html
Zsolnai Laszlo wrote:
Hello,
In any case it was a big impulse for me. The result is, that we will
start with developing a pluggin for Gnome speech which will communicate
to Speech dispatcher as its client via SSIP. I hope that can bring a big
profit.
Currently gnome-speech can handle only software
Aditya Pandey wrote:
Also, may be you could try changing the oafserver iid from
OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3
to OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
present in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/ or /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers.
Since test-speech is already
George asked:
Is there a gnome accessibility IRC channel?
Yes, there's irc.freestandards.org, channel #a11y. Also, anyone can
create a channel on irc.gnome.org/irc.gimp.net, so you can create #a11y
if you want to chat with folks on the gnome irc network.
- Bill
Zsolnai Laszlo wrote:
Hello,
Check before starting festival_client if festival is running in the
background:
Note that this is only necessary when diagnosing festival_client
problems, no one should need to do this as part of normal GNOME
accessibility operation.
- Bill
ps aux|grep 'festival
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George Kraft wrote:
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Can a jhbuild built gnome-speech be expected to run okay with the normal
package installation of festival on the host system?
Answer is yes, as far as I am aware.
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Anditya said:
When I try to do test-speech, it is not able to start it by saying No
server selected.
From this, and the other error message, it sounds as though ORBit2 is not installed. You need libbonobo and ORBit2 in order to use speech (or any GNOME accessibility, in fact). This is a bit
Kenny said (of checking the br_active gconf key:
For the record: I configured my console screan reader to use software speech
through speech-dispatcher or I couldn't run this test.
You don't have to be running GNOME's gui in order to run gconftool-2. I
would have thought that power-cycling
Hi Kenny:
If the clock is causing gnopernicus to speak every second even when
'seconds' display is off, this sounds like a regression (we fixed
something like this once before). I have filed this bug on the issue:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167393
Email me privately if you want
Hi Øyvind:
GNOME has more than one way to magnify. You didn't really tell us how you
started the magnifier, or what you were expecting to see.
The most powerful magnification services are via 'gnopernicus', which is what runs if you
select Screen Reader and Magnifier from the
By the way - I gave some rather complex, though incomplete instructions
here.
I recommend that anyone new to the GNOME accessibility features read the
Accessibility Guide for GNOME 2.8 which can be found at the following
URI, for more information.
http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.8/
Peter said:
I think the right kludge involves using Gnopernicus' (or Orca's) knowledge of
what is on the screen and moving the mouse either relative to that knowledge
(preferred kludge variant), or as an absolute pixel percentage relative to the
window (Orca script to click the mouse 33% of the
Oana said that you had to rename the other GNOME_Speech_*.server files
in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers if you wanted to force gnopernicus to use
Festival instead of other drivers.
Although this brute-force approach _will_ work, it should not be
necessary. If you are able to use gnopernicus as-is,
Mario said, of the assertion that cut-and-paste is a function of the
application, not the terminal:
That sounds more like an excuse than a solution to me :-)
I know what you mean. However, it is true that many console
applications provide their own keystrokes for text selection, which is
Olaf Schmidt wrote:
[David Bolter, Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005 15:02]
Richard, it would be great to know if you are successful using GOK with
KMousetool. It might be the case that you would want to change to
Direct mode while using KMousetool...
That's right. We tested to ensure that
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