Re: GNOME 3.2 / pyatspi / at-spi2-core

2011-12-18 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:31:45PM +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi guys, It seems that Mario is very busy and cannot answer. I would like to help, however everybody knows that my technical skills are limited, so I can't take a decision and test beyond the user point of view. So

Re: Recovering accessibility after partial Gnome 3 upgrade in testing

2011-12-14 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:04:22PM +1100, Jason White wrote: On my laptop, I upgraded to the latest testing a few weeks ago and unintentionally acquired Gnome 3 packages. Gnome-shell is not installed, but when X is started we get an activities screen. Orca is not executed automatically as

please upload the latest at-spi2 and gnome-orca to unstable

2011-12-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Could one of the debian maintainers please upload the latest versions of gnome-orca and at-spi2 to unstable? Other packages of gnome 3.2 are already appearing in unstable, so it would be helpful to have the latest accessibility packages available in Debian. Kenny -- To

Re: help returning to gnome fallback

2011-12-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:11:34PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com (30/11/2011): Hi. After the last upgrade my default session has changed to gnome shell. […] Hi Kenny, I just asked on #debian-gnome, it appears gnome 3.0 is basically lacking

help returning to gnome fallback

2011-11-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. After the last upgrade my default session has changed to gnome shell. This makes my gnome session useless. After i hear orca say welcome to orca, I get no more feedback from the system. Would someone sighted please provide me instructions on how to return to an accessible gnome? I

Bug#649503: Please package last version and upload it to unstable

2011-11-22 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Actually python-pyatspi and python-pyatspi2 provide the same interface on one side, but interface to different and not conpatibal releases of at-spi. Eventually, python-pyatspi2 and at-spi2 will become the default, but at-spi2 still has bugs not found in at-spi. Kenny On Mon,

Re: Bug#649503: Please package last version and upload it to unstable

2011-11-22 Thread Kenny Hitt
isn't warrantied. Can we trust in gnome3? Thanks for your ans9er. I'm worry I have to say. Best regards, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 à 10:21 +1100, Jason White a écrit : Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: Eventually, python-pyatspi2 and at-spi2

help creating a stand alone firefox session.

2011-11-04 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The latest gnome 3 upgrades in Sid have broken my major reason for running gnome. My default application launched when I right click a link in the gnome terminal has been changed to gnome web browzer from firefox. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to change it back. Could someone who

Re: pulseaudio in Wheezy

2011-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I have no problem fixing things when pulseaudio breaks it. My only reason for starting this thread was to get this finally addressed officially in Debian for new users. It won't look good for Debian to have access to the installer only to loose it when the new system reboots.

Re: pulseaudio in Wheezy

2011-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
failure and the operating system fails the test fast. On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Kenny Hitt wrote: Hi. I have no problem fixing things when pulseaudio breaks it. My only reason for starting this thread was to get this finally addressed officially in Debian for new users. It won't look

pulseaudio in Wheezy

2011-09-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. My upgrade broke my access to my system again. As usual, the problem was pulseaudio. The pulseaudio upgrade added itself to my gnome session. The result was loss of speech with orca and espeakup. My solution was to killall -9 pulseaudio and purge pulseaudio from my system. Although this

Re: pulseaudio in Wheezy

2011-09-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:55:34PM +1000, Jason White wrote: aptitude hold pulseaudio should prevent it from being installed in the future. The documentation says that hold prevents upgrades, but it seems to prevent installation as well. Thanks for the info. I posted to try to find a

Re: Temporary fix for at-spi2 in experimental

2011-08-12 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:47:48PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: I am assuming you had python-atspi2 and libatk-bridge from experimental installed when you tried this? Additionally, I guess you did try relogin after enabling the gconf setting? Yes, python-pyatspi2 and libatk-adaptor are

Re: Temporary fix for at-spi2 in experimental

2011-08-12 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:15:46PM +1000, Jason White wrote: does /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so exist when the at-spi 2 packages are installed? Yes, it exists. Dlocate says it is part of at-spi and aptitude says at-spi is uninstalled. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Temporary fix for at-spi2 in experimental

2011-08-11 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. That didn't fix it here. Kenny On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:47:09PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: Hi. I finally found why at-spi2 in experimental is not working as expected: We are missing a gconf schema which would tell gnome_settings_daemon that the atk-bridge GTK module needs to

gnome-terminal broken again

2011-08-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I returned to at-spi 1.0. My gnome is now accessible again except for gnome-terminal. When I started looking, I noticed there isn't an atk module in /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules I created the sym link again, but it didn't fix my problem. If i file this as a bug, what package? Kenny

Re: gnome-terminal broken again

2011-08-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:56:15PM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I returned to at-spi 1.0. My gnome is now accessible again except for gnome-terminal. When I started looking, I noticed there isn't an atk module in /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules I

Re: gnome-terminal broken again

2011-08-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 07:38:56PM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, the symlink was my problem. Once I got it right, gnome-terminal works again. This is off-topic for the list, but whenever you want to search a directory hierarchy for broken

Re: gnome-terminal broken again

2011-08-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
hi. On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:07:18PM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: More important, not sure why there isn't an atk module for gtk3 since I thought it was required. I'm sure there is one in AT-SPI 2. It's part of the AT-SPI package. Actually

Re: gnome-terminal broken again

2011-08-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:46:59PM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, no. the libatk-adaptor package depends on atk. The atk module should be part of gtk 2.0 as well as gtk 3.0. At least that's what I understand from reading and looking

Re: gnome-terminal broken again

2011-08-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:57:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com (02/08/2011): How does a package contain a file that's supposed to be part of another package? Well, that's a module which uses libatk's features, which is why you have a dependency

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-08-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. This is my first impression after attempting to switch to at-spi2. It looks like both at-spi1 and at-spi 2 have been started during login. I hear welcome to orca and then nothing. I get no more feedback from my gnome session My first guess is the at-spi1 and at-spi 2 regestries are

Re: SV: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-08-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:08:38AM +0200, mattias wrote: Kenny do you run squeeze? No, I run Sid with packages from experimental. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: SV: SV: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-08-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I don't know of any iso images for sid. I've always switched to sid by dist-upgrade from a base install of what ever debian stable release is current. Kenny On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:35:39AM +0200, mattias wrote: Link to iso? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-08-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
. Maybe for you, if you use gnome2, it'd work in better conditions. I wait and see, I'll try updating, but still not gnome3 as it's not mandatory. Regards, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le lundi 01 août 2011 à 02:51 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit : Hi. This is my first impression after attempting

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-08-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
mentioned at-spi2 breaks the GUI. Regards, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le lundi 01 août 2011 à 11:14 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit : Hi. Currently, sid has some gnome 3 packages and the rest are gnome 2.30. Using the corba based at-spi (at-spi 1.0) I had no problems with orca 3.0. My problem

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-07-31 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:37:43PM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Not sure how to resolve this. If the debian package updates to the latest git, it won't matter since the binary pico module won't be included because of license. Are you sure

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 05:58:40PM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt hittsj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I just updated to gnome-orca from experimental. So far, I'm not seeing any of your problems. Did you upgrade all of the ATSPI packages as well, or just Orca? For now, I just

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. To me, your problem with pico sounds like a speech-dispatcher issue instead of an orca problem. Sounds like there is a problem with the generic module using pico. Here, I'm running speech-dispatcher with espeak as my output module. Kenny On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 03:32:50PM +0200,

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I get a 403 forbiden error when I try to view the log. Kenny On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 03:51:07PM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Actually I did a last test. Here's the speech-dispatcher's log: http://demo.accelibreinfo.eu (contains espeak-pico.log and speech-dispatcher.log).

Re: gnome-orca_3.0.4-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2011-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
: I really have problems with permissions on FTP. Can you try again and tell me if now it works please? Thanks, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le samedi 30 juillet 2011 à 09:23 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit : Hi. I get a 403 forbiden error when I try to view the log. Kenny

Re: iceweasel

2011-07-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 05:17:41PM +1000, Jason White wrote: I have too. It will probably be better when the Orca package is updated, though, as there were changes to the Gecko script in Orca shortly before version 3.0, as I remember. Do you know what improvements? I'm running gnome-orca

Re: Bug#631725: gnome-system-monitor: Unusable with gnome-orca

2011-06-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The same fix for gnome-terminal 3.0 fixes the accessibility for system monitor 3.0. Part of the problem can be fixed by adding libgail-3-common to the dependencys of gnome-terminal and gnome-system-monitor. Since there isn't a gtk 3.0 specific version for atk, creating a sym link to the

Re: Bug#631724: gnome-terminal not accessible anymore

2011-06-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi, you can fix this by installing libgail-3-common and creating a link to /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so in /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules This problem was discussed last week on this list. I'm writing this using mutt in a gnome 3.0 terminal window. Kenny On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at

Re: Bug#631725: gnome-system-monitor: Unusable with gnome-orca

2011-06-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
-0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit : Hi. The same fix for gnome-terminal 3.0 fixes the accessibility for system monitor 3.0. Part of the problem can be fixed by adding libgail-3-common to the dependencys of gnome-terminal and gnome-system-monitor. Since there isn't a gtk 3.0 specific version

Re: Bug#631725: gnome-system-monitor: Unusable with gnome-orca

2011-06-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 06:02:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Should libgail-3-common perhaps rather be a dependency of the gnome-accessibility package? That might be the best solution for now, but that isn't enough to get access to apps using gtk3. You also will need to make sure

Re: voxin on debian squeeze

2011-06-25 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Since voxin is basically closed source, only the people who sold it to you will be able to fix it. There's nothing Debian developers can or should do about voxin. Kenny On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:48:33PM +0200, mattias wrote: not work ./voxin-installer.sh Sorry, the debian

Re: voxin

2011-06-25 Thread Kenny Hitt
Did you install the libglib2.0-dev package. That is needed to build source code that uses glib 2.0. Kenny On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:50:25PM +0200, mattias wrote: now voxin are installed thanks for the tip about ls but how to get it work with speech-dispatcher i can't compile it

Re: gnome-terminal 3.0 not accessible

2011-06-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Thanks, installing libgail-3-common and creating the sym link for libatk-bridge.so fixed it here also. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

gnome-terminal 3.0 not accessible

2011-06-18 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Just got upgraded to gnome-terminal 3.0. As the subject says, it isn't accessible. Will this problem be fixed when the rest of at-spi2 gets into unstable? If not, any suggestions for an accessible terminal in Gnome 3? For now, I've downgraded to gnome-terminal 2.30, but that isn't a good

Re: At-spi2

2011-06-04 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. No, only the libatspi2.0 packages are currently in Sid. I just checked using apt-cache search atspi. This box is up to date as of a few hours ago. The only python bindings for atspi are for atspi 1.0. Kenny On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:15:35PM +0200, mattias wrote: Yes the

Re: Fwd: Jonathan Riddell: usb-creator in suse; accessibility in Qt, it speaks!

2011-03-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Debian should have at-spi2 once gnome 3 gets uploaded to unstable. After that, experimenting with kde access will be much easier. Based on posts to the kde accessibility list, the qt4 to at-spi bridge still needs a lot of work, so I don't expect good access to kde to happen soon.

Re: a11y: some issues in squeeze

2011-03-04 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Am I the only one who is having crashes with speech-dispatcher 0.7.1? I have to ask because I'm now seeing gdb crashes when speech-dispatcher crashes. Unless others are having problems, I'm beginning to suspect my hardware is failing. The last 3 crashes have resulted in a gdb crash. That is

Re: a11y: some issues in squeeze

2011-03-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:31:54PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: You could try running speech-dispatcher manually under gdb. Once the daemon crashes again, switch to that gdb session and request a backtrace (bt). Finally got another crash. Looks like it's the espeak output module that's

Re: a11y: some issues in squeeze

2011-03-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:46:53PM +0100, Halim Sahin wrote: Hi Kenny, It would be nice to know which synth you are using with libao. it works stable here using ibmtts and espeak. I'm using espeak. Another question would be if the synthdriver crashs or the core server. Not sure. Since

Re: a11y: some issues in squeeze

2011-03-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Sorry, forgot to include the back trace I did get in my last message. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb6aefb70 (LWP 14582)] 0xb7732295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7732295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 #1

Re: a11y: some issues in squeeze

2011-03-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:29:41PM +0100, Boris Dušek wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: Finally got another crash. Looks like it's the espeak output module that's crashing. The following is from the ~/speech-dispatcher/log/speech-dispatcher.log. I would suggest

Re: a11y: some issues in squeeze

2011-03-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Have you filed these as bugs yet? Remember, a bug report is more useful and likely to get results than just posting to a mailing list. I didn't see them when I looked at speech-dispatcher bugs earlier this morning. Kenny On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:59:23PM +0100, Halim Sahin

Re: question about sources.list

2011-01-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You didn't say waht you are running now. It's been a while for me also since I just dist-upgrade to sid on any new install. To upgrade from lenny to squeeze, change lenny to squeeze for all lines in your sources.list. Then, run aptitude update before running aptitude dist-upgrade

Re: iceweasel

2010-12-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 06:16:01PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: I just did this. I'm running squeeze and had to install the following: xulrunner-1.9.2 from Experimental libsqlite3 from Sid I wasn't able to persuade apt-get to install from Experimental, despite the packages showing up in

Re: Bug#595292: ITP: daisy-player -- player for Daisy talking books (DTB)

2010-10-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I'd like to provide books, but all the daisy 3 books I have are copy protected. I'm not legally allowed to give them to anyone. Kenny On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:50:11PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: Hi Kenny and others, On 09/02/10 22:23, Kenny Hitt wrote: Hi. One important

Re: a11y: pulseaudio muted in squeeze by default

2010-09-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:49:34AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: This needs to be discussed with Milan: he explicitly dropped the alsa fallback to avoid blocking other applications. Also see Hynek's remarks: “If we are to stay with 0.7, this commit needs to be applied:

Re: a11y: pulseaudio muted in squeeze by default

2010-09-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote: hi, Ok I filed Bug#598628 for squeeze which describes the muted audio in pulse. If this can be fixed, speechd should deppend (not recomment) pulseaudio. If we don't want this then we should change audio output to something

Re: unable to log into gdm3 after reboot

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:03:52PM +1000, Jason White wrote: You could test your hypothesis by downgrading to the version of gdm3 in Testing, i.e., sudo aptitude install gdm3/testing (making sure you have a testing repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list file). If it works after that,

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
hi. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ok. I've kept with 0.7 for now. If we are to stay with 0.7, this commit needs to be applied: 4b7c03605c754aa0b3f192c0385a30019ffecdef which will prevent the issues related to audio fallback. It was in 0.7-5

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:40:10PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Kenny Hitt, le Wed 29 Sep 2010 16:10:36 -0500, a écrit : It's still not solved for me using speech-dispatcher with Orca. Do you get error messages in Orca's logs? Samuel At this point, I don't have a log file from orca

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:00:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Kenny Hitt, le Wed 29 Sep 2010 16:57:29 -0500, a écrit : On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:40:10PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Kenny Hitt, le Wed 29 Sep 2010 16:10:36 -0500, a écrit : It's still not solved for me using speech

Re: midnight commander

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. In theory, speakup should be able to do the same thing. I don't use this app, so haven't tested it with speakup. Kenny On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 01:21:17AM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote: Hi, Patching upstream apps for accessibility is is fine in many cases. However the described

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:33:44AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Kenny Hitt, le Wed 29 Sep 2010 17:19:06 -0500, a écrit : http://hittsjunk.net/debug-2010-09-29-16:59:46.out Nothing obvious to me here. You tested that spd-say still works, right? Samuel Not until you just asked. Spd

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. No, all I get is silence trying to play a wav file with paplay. Looks like that might be the issue. I installed pavucontrol, but it says there are no devices. I don't want to use a .asoundrc. I will not for any reason break my alsa output. If pulseaudio can't get along with my other apps

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:52:47PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote: The upstream 0.7.1 release fixes the issues from this bug report, but is not yet available in Debian. To my knowledge, the version 0.7 works in Debian too, if used with the default settings. It has troubles with non-default

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-22 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:36:16PM +1000, Jason White wrote: In addition, Emacspeak (which is not a screen reader but a full speech interface to Emacspeak and its extensions) has always included its own speech servers. Orca used to be compatible with these, but the necessary support

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I was afraid of this. The speech-dispatcher 0.7 package doesn't work correctly. In my opinion, it sould never have been allowed to move to Squeeze. I have reported the issue to the speech-dispatcher maintainer, but it hasn't been resolved.

Re: I've lost my b

2010-08-31 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. This sounds more like a problem with console setup instead of grub. Did you notice what other packages were upgraded, or was grub2 your only change? Kenny On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:58:37PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: Greetings, After upgrading, some

Re: speakup in Debian kernel and installer

2010-08-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Have you visited linux-speakup.org? That is the official web site for speakup. Most of your questions should be answered there. Kenny On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 04:08:24AM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi Sam, As you know I attend to promote linux as accessibility tool.

Re: speakup in Debian kernel and installer

2010-08-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le mardi 24 août 2010 à 08:05 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit : Hi. The idea is to get access to the system as early as possible during boot. To do this, speakup is a set of kernel modules. Since software speech is a recent addition, and speakup is active before

plans for gnome-orca speech backend

2010-06-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I just noticed the gnome-orca package in testing/unstable still uses gnome-speech for output. Upstream has switch to speech-dispatcher. What are the current plans for Debian's gnome-orca package? Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: plans for gnome-orca speech backend

2010-06-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:51:18AM +1000, Jason White wrote: Kenny Hitt ke...@hittsjunk.net wrote: Hi. I just noticed the gnome-orca package in testing/unstable still uses gnome-speech for output. Upstream has switch to speech-dispatcher. What are the current plans for Debian's gnome

Re: plans for gnome-orca speech backend

2010-06-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:19:54PM +1000, Jason White wrote: which could be a good reason not to change the default speech module at this point. By the time Squeeze is released, OpenTTS will be packaged by Ubuntu, simplifying its entry into Debian as well. Good point. I just mentioned it

Re: [Brad Taylor] ANNOUNCE: Mono Accessibility 2.0 unleashed!

2010-02-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I would agree as long as this package doesn't make at-spi2 the default. If that happens, Debian will have one more break with upstream Gnome. The decision to use the webkit backend for yelp has already made Debian less accessible than upstream, making at-spi2 the default will make things

yelp in Gnome 2.28

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. As people who run Gnome 2.28 know, yelp is currently not accessible in Debian. The problem is Debian decided to switch to the webkit backend before it was accessible. I've filed a bug in Debian (571121) Upstream yelp still uses gecko, but the Debian Gnome maintainer says the gecko backend

Re: yelp in Gnome 2.28

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
continue to use gecko rather than webkit. For Vinux (which derives from Debian and Ubuntu), we're sticking to the older version of yelp, which still works fine. Bill On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Kenny Hitt ke...@hittsjunk.net wrote: Hi.  As people who run Gnome 2.28 know, yelp is currently

using bluetooth in the text console

2009-10-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Since gnome-terminal is broken for now, I've been trying to do everything in the text console again. One problem I can't seem to solve is sending files via bluetooth. Would someone please point me to a package containing text based bluetooth utilities? Thanks in advance. Kenny

Re: a11y and pulseaudio in debian squeeze???

2009-07-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Aldo, le Mon 27 Jul 2009 12:25:52 +0200, a écrit : you can't make 99% of current users pay for the 0.9% of audio-minded people who are needing an advanced but problematic product born from alsa. That'd precisely why

Re: a11y and pulseaudio in debian squeeze???

2009-07-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:06:57PM +0200, Aldo wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Aldo, le Mon 27 Jul 2009 12:25:52 +0200, a écrit : you can't make 99% of current users pay for the 0.9% of audio-minded people who are needing an advanced but

Re: OOo crashing on startup?

2008-10-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. No crash here. Running openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.1-11 This is on a Sid box. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Braille printers drivers

2008-05-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I'm not sure of the need. The last printer I set up was easy with cups. I just chose the lline printer driver and it worked. Normally, the difference with Braille printers is the format of the file. The text will need to be converted to brf first. This user uses turbobraille to

Re: Braille printers drivers

2008-05-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:41:33AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Kenny Hitt, le Thu 29 May 2008 05:33:54 -0500, a écrit : Nfbtrans can be used in a pipe. Ok, but still lp foo.txt is easier than nfbtrans foo.txt - | lp And also, think about software that print themselves, like mutt

Re: Firefox 3 in Debian

2008-03-19 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I have been building my Firefox from source until recently. It appears there is now a 64 bit nightly build available from mozilla.org. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ Hope this helps. Kenny On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:31:30PM +1100, Jason

Re: Please test brltty 3.8 in experimental

2007-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Im probably looking in the wrong place, but I could only find a binary package for the AMD 64 on packages.debian.org. Since I need the I386 version, I decided to build from source. The build fails when it calls dh_lisp. What package contains this program? I've tried apt-get build-dep brltty

Re: Please test brltty 3.8 in experimental

2007-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Thanks, that was it. Looks like I can't type. Guess I searched for dh-list instead of dh-lisp. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test brltty 3.8 in experimental

2007-07-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I received the following error installing libbrlapi-dev dpkg: error processing libbrlapi-dev_3.8-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/lib/libbrlapi.a', which is also in package libbrlapi1-dev Otherwise, the new brltty package seems to work great. Kenny -- To

Re: What to do with Gnopernicus?

2007-07-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I would suggest dropping it. For me, I find Orca to provide better access to Gnome. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Kenny Hitt] Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?

2007-02-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:47:13PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: Hi everyone. This is how Ubuntu users see Debian. I am very sad about such postings. However, to get something positive out of it, we should at least use it to reflect on the past. 1. Ubuntu would not exist without

changing interface for debconf on access floppies.

2005-02-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The subject basically says it all. I would like to use the dialog interface to debconf instead of the readline interface on the Debian access floppies. Does anyknow if this can be done with a parameter at the boot prompt? Thanks in advance. Kenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

instructions on building gnome-speech with DECtalk]

2005-02-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. These instructions assume you have already bought and installed the DECtalk software synth. All commands can be run as a normal user except for make install. You will need to install the fakeroot package. Be aware if the libgnome-speech package gets upgraded, you will need to do this again.

Re: running orca in Debian

2005-01-31 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:56:55PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: I seem similar behaviour here. But I get: RuntimeError: Can not load Bonobo support I've once considered looking into Orca, but the fact that there havent been any functional changes in upstream CVS since august 2004 is a bit

running orca in Debian

2005-01-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Does anyone have orca working on there Debian box? I had it working on a Gentoo box several month ago, but haven't managed to get it working on Debian. When I try to run orca-setup, I get the following error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ orca-setup Creating .orca directory. Traceback (most recent

Re: Making the access floppy work.

2004-12-06 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The images do have speakup built into the kernel. To start the install with a DECtalk express, you would type: linux speakup_synth=dectlk Hope this helps. Kenny On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:36:45PM +1100, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: Hi all. I have built floppies from the images

Re: Gnopernicus package for Gnome 2.8

2004-11-25 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:16:23PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: Kenny Hitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When libgnome-mag1 got upgraded, my Gnopernicus 0.84 stopped working. Ouch, well, I forgot about this one. Libgnome-mag1 was upgraded again this morning. Now, my Gnopernicus 0.8 works

Gnopernicus package for Gnome 2.8

2004-11-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I've watched my Sid boxes get upgraded to Gnome 2.8 over the last week. So far, I haven't seen Gnopernicus get upgraded. Is the package still stuck in experimental? When libgnome-mag1 got upgraded, my Gnopernicus 0.84 stopped working. I would like to know if I should just wait a few days

Re: speakup Debian installer; also booting from cdrom and adding brltty

2004-09-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I'm working with the access floppies. I am still just writing the 3 floppies to disks. On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:21:07AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: last night I made a bootable cd from the accessible boot.img at http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/access since my

Re: Console Access with Speech, Even During Install?

2004-09-08 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:20:03AM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: By the way, could the tiny soft synth called Say work with Speakup on boot floppies? I know next to nothing about it and have not even found the homepage yet. THe only reference I saw was on the Jos Lemmens home page at:

Re: Console Access with Speech, Even During Install?

2004-09-07 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:55:21PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: Kenny Hitt wrote: Space is limited on an installer disk, Well not so limited in USB mass storage, zip drives or CD-ROMS. Yes it is. Consider you will have to add the software to get access to the install to a standard install

Re: Low-res X Working, Gnome Themes

2004-08-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:35:31AM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: Hi, Apart from telling this news, one query regarding Gnome: I'd like to heavily customize the colors and fonts used in Gnome to be as optimal to me as possible. Real stark contrasts between different foregrounds and

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:55:52PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: I suppose this could be some kind of a text mode GUI, similar to installers in DOS games or the dialog interface in Debian, only more sophisticated. Right? Yep. It's a program called aptitude. I find it very helpful when I

Re: Networking and software speech with Speakup

2004-08-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:06:32PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: Hi Kenny, I'm snipping heavily as I've resolved the networking stuff. THX to everyone taking part. Kenny Hitt wrote: software speech requires a working sound card and other programs to work. During the initial install

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:24:42PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: Kenny Hitt wrote: I'm not sure if I'd say the same. I mean, I've been spoiled by GUIs so to speak. Even though Linux is loads more powerful than DOS, I still don't feel quite at home sitting in front of a text terminal

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-25 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:20:11PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: Kenny Hitt wrote: Swing was supposed to add accessibility support. Does Gnopernicus work with Awt or Swing at all? Gnopernicus is supposet to work with Swing. You need to install Sun's JDK and built the java-access-bridge

system security

2004-08-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:50:00PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: True, speaking of which, how do I let some non-root users install some Debian packages? Isn't it pretty unpractical if maintaining a large system and you'll always have to call someone with root previliges to be able to

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