On 13/6/09 16:50, Jane Jordan (GMail) wrote: > Can someone re-send instructions on what I need to do to get Firefox > speaking?
One possibility is WebAnywhere: http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/ The other possibility is the Fire Vox addon that turns Firefox into a self-voicing application: http://firevox.clcworld.net/ Here's some instructions I put together a while back for installing Fire Vox. Make sure VoiceOver is on throughout. First download and install the current version of Firefox in your Applications folder. Next download the FireVox add-ons bundle. From the terminal, run: fetch http://firevox.clcworld.net/clc-4-tts_bundle_v4.0_release.xpi Firefox allows you to have one or more user profiles. Create a FireVox profile for Firefox. From the terminal, run: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -CreateProfile firevox Next run Firefox, telling it to load in the foreground with the new profile and open the add-on installer. From the terminal, run: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -foreground -P firevox `pwd`/clc-4-tts_bundle_v4.0_release.xpi Note the inline use of the pwd command to get the directory of the Fire Vox bundle: http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pwd.1.html VoiceOver should now announce you are in a Mozilla Firefox window. This will be the add-on installer, but no information about it is exposed to Firefox. There are two buttons in the installer window "Cancel" and "Install". "Install" is automatically focused. However, for security reasons, the button is disabled for a short timeout. Count to 5 to ensure the button is activable, then press Enter to install the add-on. Now count to 5 again to give the add-on time to install. You should now be in a window called "Add-ons" showing installed addons, but VoiceOver can't read anything other than the window title and window controls. Firefox needs to restart to enable the newly installed add-ons. Press Command Q to quite Firefox. Now start Firefox again with your profile. From the terminal, run: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P firevox With VoiceOver enabled, you should now be able to explore the Firefox window and interface. Fire Vox is using Mac TTS for speech output. There's a guide to the command line options for the Firefox binary at: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Command_Line_Options Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
