Urgent: Linux accessibility help

2016-06-07 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi, Let me start by saying that I know nothing about Lotus Notes/IBM Notes. but since you are under pressure, I thought I would suggest this: If IBM Notes uses a web interface and you will access it with either Firefox or Chrome, you can try out F123 Access, an extension designed to fix acces

Re: Urgent: Linux accessibility help

2016-06-07 Thread Fernando Botelho
Let us know if it was helpful. It will be good to know. F123 Access is able to fix some issues, not all. So a lot will depend on how the web interface was designed. F ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

VI, Elvis, and NeoVIM

2016-09-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I have gotten tired of my own typos and started researching text editors with promises of extensive word completion features. Emacs and Emacspeak seems to be too complex to install and configure. I would like something that I might be able to use with a few days of practice. I a

VirtualBox

2016-09-12 Thread Fernando Botelho
Janina, I swear I am not stocking you across email lists. :) I just find your posts useful. I liked the idea of using VirtualBox. For example, one can have a VM specifically for banking, which should prevent many security problems. it could even be setup to start from a snapshot, so anything d

Re: VirtualBox

2016-09-12 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thank you Paul. I have not used Virtualbox in years, so it is time to revisit it. Best, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

VirtualBox

2016-09-13 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks Luke, I will research those options as well. Best regards, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: VirtualBox

2016-09-14 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks anyway Janina, Back in the day, I liked the fact that VirtualBox allowed one to do a lot of things via the command line. I imagine all of that remains available. But I will let more experienced current users comment. Best, Fernando ___ Blin

Speakup and backups

2016-09-16 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I must be getting old, because I have become backup-obssessed. In addition to a backup of my home folder, I would like to use the ARCH pacman off-line alternate process, where one keeps a list of packages and the actual packages on disk, just in case Internet access is not availa

Re: Speakup and backups

2016-09-17 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks Zahari, I think this is just what I needed. I will need some time to try it out, but will send you feedback as soon as I do. Best, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-li

Recording screencasts

2016-09-22 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I have heard of advanced technical people using an Apple Mac to record screencasts showing the image of a virtual machine running Linux distros. Has anybody here been able to record good quality screencasts, including video and screen reader audio using entirely free and open sou

Re: Recording screencasts

2016-09-29 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks very much Paul. I was hoping to stay with either Ubuntu or ARCH, but hey, maybe it is time to try something new. Thanks, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: Recording screencasts

2016-09-30 Thread Fernando Botelho
Great, thanks again. Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Recording screencasts

2016-09-30 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks for suggesting Kazam. I had never heard of it. Will check it out. Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Recording screencasts

2016-09-30 Thread Fernando Botelho
I am all in favor of simplicity whenever possible. I will certainly look for that recordmydesktop application. Thanks, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Building ARCH

2016-10-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I was slowly and painfully figuring out how to install the latest ARCH without the benefit of an installer, and slowly automating the process. At the rate I was going, robots would have helped me finish. However, I found a script that does it all, and it is ready to go. Since th

Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I have found instructions that more or less tell me to install Emacspeak with the Festival speech synthesizer. Since I am guessing that Festival is no longer being developed and eSpeak has so many languages, I would rather go with eSpeak. Does anybody think using eSpeak instead

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
On 10/05/2016 09:22 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: If you install emacspeak-git you can disregard all festival instructions since espeak is the default for emacspeak-git. On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Fernando Botelho wrote: Thank you very much. This will really simplify things. Fernando

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
On 10/05/2016 09:11 AM, Devin Prater wrote: Espeak support is "unmaintained", so it could break with any new release of eSpeak that may come along. There is an Eflite server, if you can get it working, that links flite with Emacspeak. Oh, I think it would be easier for me to find funding to

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
The emacspeak espeak support is depressingly fiddly to get working, but it is well worth doing. I keep hearing this, so I am expecting it will indeed be a huge pain. Once it works though, I hope it is not something that breaks all the time. Also, I hope it gives equivalent performance to wha

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
On 10/05/2016 09:57 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: getting emacspeak-git to build correctly probably will be your first obstacle. Expect at least one error due to a missing dependency. I got another error below that I'll research a little later today. Ok. I guess I will also join the Emacspeak l

Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
Chris, Would you or anyone you know be willing to help me put together a script that installs/configures Emacspeak and eSpeak on a Talking ARCH environment? I might be able to find small funding, but it would be mostly symbolic. if you might be able to help, please drop me a line at: ferna...

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-05 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks Chris for these details. This is very helpful. Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

portaudio in arch

2016-10-06 Thread Fernando Botelho
So how can one find out who is in charge of portaudio in ARCH Linux? it is a rolling distro, so is it even worth bothering with it, as I guess it will get updated sometime this month. Does anybody know when in each month ARCH packages get refreshed? Best, Fernando __

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-08 Thread Fernando Botelho
On 10/08/2016 12:11 AM, Devin Prater wrote: For now, eSpeak cannot use the voice-lock features of Emacspeak. That's my main problem with it's maintenance now, and that I can't change the voice to the En-us language. This sounds bad. What is voice-lock used for? Also, if you cannot use US En

Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak

2016-10-08 Thread Fernando Botelho
On 10/08/2016 02:01 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote: Voice-lock gives you a different voice when the font changes, such as when you're reading a comment in your code or you come across a link in your browser. The default is a UK English voice. I was able to change this in the past, but when I

Spacemacs and Emacspeak

2016-10-09 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks guys for the clarifications on contacting package maintainers. I am reading about Spacemacs, a kind of NeoVIM for the Emacs world. has anybody heard of someone using Spacemacs with Emacspeak? I have searched online but find no evidence of that. I am not sure if it is because nobody has

Portaudio

2016-10-13 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi Chris, I did try submitting a bug report, but something happened with my registration and I was not able to. I will try again certainly, next time I have someone sighted next to me. However, in the mean time I tried Janina's suggestion and it workd, in the sense that I foud a friendly per

Introducing F123e

2016-10-17 Thread Fernando Botelho
think will be supportive. Best regards, Fernando Botelho ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Introducing the F123e live iso

2016-10-30 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, Thanks to Kyle's help and that of others, we are getting started with F123 experimental. The idea is that even someone who is not a developer, like myself, will eventually be able to install Emacs or Spacemacs with Emacspeak, entirely configured and ready to go, by simply answeri

Introducing eLoud for Emacs

2016-10-30 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I just heard about this speech application for Emacs, or as it is usually called, a minor mode: https://github.com/smythp/eloud I know this software does not have as much functionality as Emacspeak, but does anyone know if it uses a speech server that could make Emacspeak instal

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hello Jean-Philippe, Would your team have the skills to develop a speech server for Emacspeak to use Speech-Dispatcher and eSpeak? Alternatively, would your team be able to create a BASH script that automates the installation and configuration of Emacspeak and eSpeak inside an Arch Linux mac

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks very much for this suggestion Raphaë. Best regards, Fernando On 11/04/2016 07:38 AM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote: Dear Fernando, Message transféré Sujet : Re: A new tts on Linux Date : Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:38:04 -0200 De : Fernando Botelho Répondre à : fernando.bote

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
You are right Samuel, I had forgotten all about SpeechD-el, and it might have the features we are looking for. Thanks, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
m to trigger on certain events, all that. On 11/4/2016 7:35 AM, Fernando Botelho wrote: Thanks very much for this suggestion Raphaë. Best regards, Fernando On 11/04/2016 07:38 AM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote: Dear Fernando, Message transféré Sujet : Re: A new tts on Linux Date :

Update related to F123e

2016-11-06 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks to those who have sent feedback to my emails to various lists. So far this is what I have found out: A lot of people are in agreement regarding the need for: * An easier way to install and setup Emacspeak; * An easier way for Emacspeak to use eSpeak and/or other synthesizers; and * At le

Re: Update related to F123e

2016-11-07 Thread Fernando Botelho
18:17 Fernando Botelho wrote: Thanks to those who have sent feedback to my emails to various lists. So far this is what I have found out: A lot of people are in agreement regarding the need for: * An easier way to install and setup Emacspeak; * An easier way for Emacspeak to use eSpeak and/or

Re: Update related to F123e

2016-11-07 Thread Fernando Botelho
ments, anything feel free to post. Thanks and greetings Peter On 06.11.2016 at 18:17 Fernando Botelho wrote: Thanks to those who have sent feedback to my emails to various lists. So far this is what I have found out: A lot of people are in agreement regarding the need for: * An easier w

Re: Update related to F123e

2016-11-09 Thread Fernando Botelho
on't have it in my bookmarks. On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Fernando Botelho wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 06:16:20 From: Fernando Botelho To: Peter V?gner , blinux-list@redhat.com, spee...@lists.freebsoft.org, f1...@groups.io Subject: Re: Update related to F123e Peter, we have now linked to

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Fernando Botelho
John, F123, the project I lead has cooperated with Sonar and Vinux in the past and will probably do so again in the future, but I did not know about The International Association Of Visually Impaired Technologists (IAVIT). I will be in touch in the next couple of weeks to bounce off a few ideas