Ok folks its working. I installed the firevox 2 plugin to firefox and it works. you can highlight any text and it will read it. It seems I was following old instructions on the internet to install firevox.
Here is a link for anyone who would like to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51166 On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:32 PM, arjuna <[email protected]> wrote: > I have orca reading everything in all windows, except what i want it to > read. ie i want it to read the content of web pages. Is there a way to do > this. Also is there a way to make a selection and start and stop the text to > speech functionality. Is anyone using text to speech to read web pages? > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > >> arjuna said on Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:14:41AM +0530,: >> >> > I have festival working and orca working too...How do you get them to >> work >> > in firefox? ie if a page comes up in firefox how do i get them to read >> it, >> > without copying and pasting to a text file and doing convolutions like >> that? >> >> There is a FAQ on this:- >> >> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+3+with+Screen+Readers+FAQ >> >> I have not used it - just googled it for you. >> >> If you have any difficulties in spite of the FAQ, please ask, posting >> specific applications with versions you use; I will try to replicate >> the set up here. (I use Debian sid; but that ought not to be a problem). >> >> >> -- >> Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com >> "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, >> it is the illusion of knowledge." >> --Stephen hawking >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ilugd mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > arjuna > -- Best regards, arjuna _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
