BRLTTY 4.2 without espeak support

2010-08-08 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Debian Squeeze has already been feature-freezed, nevertheless I would be interested whether it is possible to build the Squeeze BRLTTY (4.2) with espeak support? I guess the libespeak-dev package was not installed while building the official package, can this still be done? Or do I need to

Re: BRLTTY 4.2 without espeak support

2010-08-30 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on Mo, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:54:25 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Mon 30 Aug 2010 15:34:01 +0200, a écrit : However, why does Debian ship BRLTTY's speechd-support in an extra package? To avoid the dependency on speechd. Shall BRLTTY be small

Re: Lost /etc/brlapi.key

2010-09-11 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on Sa, Sep 11, 2010 at 08:23:39 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Sat 11 Sep 2010 20:02:40 +0200, a écrit : I've compiled BRLTTY several times and now I have due to uncarefulness lost my brlapi.key. Not a problem: just put some text

Re: Lost /etc/brlapi.key

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on Sa, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:36:26 +0200: Check out http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging Should have been my second look. Sorry. I built BRLTTY with the prefix /usr/local. In order to run it, I put a symlink into /sbin pointing to

Framebuffer Still In Squeeze-Installer

2011-01-01 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, today I tried to install Debian Squeeze with the ISO from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta2-i386-CD-1.iso and got after the beep a screen not in text mode. I installed a Debian Squeeze on 28th of December and this worked fine (but this was

Re: Framebuffer Still In Squeeze-Installer

2011-01-02 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:09:30PM +0100: Sebastian Humenda, le Sat 01 Jan 2011 20:49:17 +0100, a écrit : today I tried to install Debian Squeeze with the ISO from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian

No speech in gdm3 with Orca

2011-01-05 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, since a while I don't have speech while I'm logging in with gdm3. I've activated Orca in gdm3 and copied my local preferences to the Debian-gdm user (/var/lib/gdm3) and changed the ownership of the files. Everything worked, until some days ago orca started up and remained silent. The

Re: No speech in gdm3 with Orca

2011-01-05 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on Mi, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:29:17 +0100: Sebastian Humenda, le Wed 05 Jan 2011 17:42:52 +0100, a écrit : since a while I don't have speech while I'm logging in with gdm3. I've activated Orca in gdm3 and copied my local preferences

BRLTTY and eSpeak

2011-02-13 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, I've already requested a package like brltty-espeak, but it was in August and Squeeze was already freezed. Now I would like to ask again, if someone could please create such a package to use BRLTTY together with eSpeak. Many thanks Sebastian -- Test the free Latin-German dictionary |

Re: X11 without a connected screen

2011-02-15 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Mario, Mario Lang ml...@debian.org wrote on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:44:28PM +0100: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: Odd Martin Baanrud, le Sun 13 Feb 2011 22:47:05 +0100, a écrit : At 15:45 12.02.2011, you wrote: It looks like Xorg having troubles with starting. [...]

Little detail in package description of eSpeak

2011-03-11 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, in the package description of eSpeak, there is something that could be changed for the next release of eSpeak: * Potential for other languages. Rudimentary (and probably humourous) attempts at German and Esperanto are included. German is IMO quite good in recent versions and I've been

Orca 2.91 not working in GDM

2011-03-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, I'm using Debian Squeeze with Orca from experimental. When I'm logged in, everything is fine, but Orca doesn't start at the login screen. In /var/log/:0-greeter.log I found an error message saying that it couldn't create the directory for the orca settings (/var/lib/gdm3/.local/...). So I

localized information in the wiki

2011-03-24 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi everyone, I have translated the main accessibility wiki page to German. So some remarks on the English version * I don't know whether it is good for the Debian-installer options to just reference to the release manual since this is very long and might discourage people from reading

Re: Little detail in package description of eSpeak

2011-03-29 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on So, Mär 27, 2011 at 08:00:39 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Fri 11 Mar 2011 14:40:07 +0100, a écrit : * Potential for other languages. Rudimentary (and probably humourous) attempts at German and Esperanto are included. This seems

Bug#620519: Bug in daisy-player?

2011-04-02 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Package: daisy-player - Forwarded message from Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de - From: Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Subject: Bug in daisy-player? Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:31:53 +0200 Hello, I'm running Squeeze with daisy-player from

Re: Bug in daisy-player?

2011-04-02 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hallo Klaus Klaus Knopper accessibil...@knopper.net wrote on Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 06:15:05PM +0200: On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:31:53PM +0200, Sebastian Humenda wrote: Hello, I'm running Squeeze with daisy-player from unstable. I'm not able to play any daisy book, because I get the error

Bug in Testing / Unstable

2011-04-13 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, a few days after the Debian package for eSpeak came into unstable, I discovered a quite important problem which was fixed in eSpeak 1.45.04. Every occurrence of sage is spoken as spionage (in the German voice) which is not acceptable. There were already German users who complained about

Re: Bug#622747: espeak: german voice bug

2011-04-21 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel [CC-ing the Jonathan (author) as well] Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote on Do, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:03:26 +0200: Samuel Thibault, le Thu 14 Apr 2011 13:39:20 +0200, a écrit : a few days after the Debian package for eSpeak came into unstable, I discovered a quite important

[jo...@talktalk.net: Re: Request of new stable version of eSpeak]

2011-04-26 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, here the forwareded message regarding the bug in eSpeak. Thanks already for updating Sebastian - Forwarded message from Jonathan Duddington jo...@talktalk.net - Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:45:54 +0100 From: Jonathan Duddington jo...@talktalk.net To: Sebastian Humenda shume

Daisy Pipeline

2011-06-11 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, has anyone already looked at the java library daisy pipeline? I couldn't find it in the archive. If not, is here anybody who wants to package it? I would need it for odt2braille. For odt2braille a lot of dependencies are missing, one less would be great :-). Regards Sebastian -- Test the

Re: Bug#638297: O: edbrowse -- A /bin/ed-alike webbrowser

2011-08-19 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, p...@pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au wrote on Fr, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:28:04 +1000: Mario Lang wrote: While it (edbrowse) is a very interesting tool, I still find lynx more convenient :-). However, its really useful for scripting and generally, for command-line freaks. It's a very important

RFS: libbrailleutils-java

2011-08-27 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Dear Accessibility Team I am looking for a sponsor for the library BrailleUtils in version 1.2~b. It has been tested and appears to be lintian clean. BrailleUtils provides a cross platform API for embossing and converting braille in PEF-format. Conversion to and from commonly used braille text

Re: RFS: libbrailleutils-java

2011-09-07 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 29.08.2011, 18:09 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Sat 27 Aug 2011 20:34:46 +0200, a écrit : The package can be found on crustulus.de: Git: http://crustulus.de/brailleutils.git The whole set of files: http://crustulus.de

Re: RFS: libbrailleutils-java

2011-09-07 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi again, Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de schrieb am 07.09.2011, 20:03 +0200: The URL's and the repository were updated. http://crustulus.de/brailleutils_1.2~b-1.debian.tar.gz http://crustulus.de/brailleutils_1.2~b-1.dsc http://crustulus.de/brailleutils_1.2~b-1_i386.changes http

Re: RFS: libbrailleutils-java

2011-09-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 09.09.2011, 1:05 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Wed 07 Sep 2011 20:35:56 +0200, a écrit : Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de schrieb am 07.09.2011, 20:03 +0200: The URL's and the repository were updated. http://crustulus.de

Re: RFS: libbrailleutils-java

2011-09-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 09.09.2011, 1:05 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Wed 07 Sep 2011 20:35:56 +0200, a écrit : Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de schrieb am 07.09.2011, 20:03 +0200: The URL's and the repository were updated. http://crustulus.de

Re: RFS: libbrailleutils-java

2011-09-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 09.09.2011, 17:01 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Fri 09 Sep 2011 16:34:24 +0200, a écrit : Please check out ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-a11y/brailleutils.git I have uploaded it, thanks! Also thanks! I however need your chgrp, so I

Re: Brltty on debian 6?

2011-10-16 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Petra, Petra Ritter pe...@access-for-all.ch schrieb am 16.10.2011, 12:07 +0200: I just install debian 6 in Vmware Player 4. Orca is working fine but without braille support. How i can finde out whether brltty is installt and runing? Via aptitude, type: # aptitude show brltty or via dpkg: #

Re: Debian linux howto start in textmode

2011-11-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Claudio, Claudio Sacco cl.sa...@evard.ch schrieb am 09.11.2011, 10:02 +0100: sighted person installed debian Linux for me. When linux starts and I reach the login screen, I'm in graphic mode with Orca loaded. How can I change this. I would like to have Linux start into my login screen in

Re: Debian linux howto start in textmode

2011-11-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hallo chomy, chomy ch...@argv.org schrieb am 09.11.2011, 19:47 +0900: apache2? Of course not, it was pasted and I forgot to change that. update-rc.d -f gdm3 remove Why do you want to enforce it? Best Sebastian -- Test the free Latin-German dictionary | Teste das freie

RFS brailleutils-java

2012-03-02 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, recently, Giovanni Mascellani discovered a bug (a needless dependency) and provided a patch. Furthermore, I've found out that the symlinks in /usr/share/java were broken. Both problems have been fixed in version *-3. It's uploaded to the git repository on alioth. You find the new Debian

RFS: accessodf

2012-04-07 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Dear Accessibility Team I am looking for a sponsor for the package accessodf in version 0.1-1. It has been tested and appears to be lintian clean. AccessODF is a OOO/LIbreoffice extension to check ODF documents for accessibility issues. It reports them and tries to give hints for possible

RFS: brailleutils

2012-04-08 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Dear Accessibility Team I am looking for a sponsor for the library BrailleUtils in version 1.2~b. It has been tested and appears to be lintian clean. (Description of package below) In this version, the installation takes now place in debian/install instead of a override rule. The package can be

Re: RFS: accessodf

2012-04-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 08.04.2012, 21:20 +0200: You need to file an ITP, that you'll close in the first changelog entry. Done. See #668144. I have fixed a few issues: Thanks. For the future, user-guide should be forwarded upstream. I'll ask upstream.

Re: RFS: accessodf

2012-04-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello again, I forgot to mention, that the change is uploaded to the git and the old links are renewed as well. Sebastian -- Blog (English | Deutsch): http://crustulus.de/blog Teste das freie Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://freedict.org/dict?Form=dict3Database=lat-deu Freedict: Free

Re: Saving power on a laptop by turning off display backlight completely

2012-07-13 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 13.07.2012, 19:10 +0200: Mario Lang, le Fri 13 Jul 2012 19:06:04 +0200, a écrit : but this is not as interesting to some of us as a generic, console-compatible solution would be methinks. setterm -blank force should work. It's

Re: Lowering default espeakup speed?

2012-07-23 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 23.07.2012, 23:13 +0900: We are getting contradictory feedback from users: - a lot of them find espeakup too fast - a lot of them find it too slow so I'm wondering whether the current default speed (the average) is really a good

Speech-Dispatcher, weird speech raise

2013-01-21 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, I configured speech-dispatcher to use libao (but my problem also occurs with ALSA). Basically all words with the first letter being a capital are pronounced high when reading texts or navigating. I removed my Orca configuration, made a new one, set all available voices to the same pitch,

Re: Wheezy images and speech

2013-01-28 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Geoff, Geoff Shang schrieb am 28.01.2013, 16:57 +0200: Given then that GRML is no longer an option, at least for now, and with the Wheezy release fast approaching, I took a look at the various boot images. But I'm a bit confused. The release notes say that we can just hit s and enter

Re: orca at log in using gdm3

2013-04-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Nadeau schrieb am 10.04.2013, 9:53 -0400: i'm running Debian Wheezy. I can't seem to see ow to get Orca to run at the log in. I was told that there are accessibility features in gdm3 but I can't find them. Any help is appreciated. According to

Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, after an action I cannot recall, orca does the following: 1. navigation in Iceweasel or even Firefox is impossible, except for tabbing links; the other screen-reader-specific navigation features (h for heading or even the arrow keys) don't work. 2. all features of orca do not work,

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Dave, Dave Hunt schrieb am 18.04.2013, 15:27 -0400: I experience this sort of thing whenever I use GNOME 3.4.2 on this netbook that has an Atom cpu. In my case, it's a crash of at-spi2-core. earlier and later GNOME releases do not exhibit this Hm, I get this now regularly after every

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Dave, Dave Hunt schrieb am 18.04.2013, 15:49 -0400: When I have the crash, no Orca binding works. Also, Orca cannot track the cursor, even in things like gedit windows. I didn't check No, it seems that we are talking about different problems. First of all my problem is there from the very

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello again, I've added a new user and started a GNOME session there. Voilà, it works again like expected. It seems to me, that something in my personal at-spi-settings got garbled, since I've already reconfigured orca. Any ideas on this? Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog (eng

Re: Strange behaviour with orca

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Sebastian Humenda schrieb am 18.04.2013, 22:29 +0200: I've added a new user and started a GNOME session there. Voilà, it works again like expected. It seems to me, that something in my personal at-spi-settings got Due to lack of time to hunt down the problem, I just copied .c* .g* .l

Re: wheezy live cd

2013-04-26 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hallo Jason, Jason White schrieb am 26.04.2013, 16:56 +1000: Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: This may be a dumb question, but is there a way to make a truly accessible liveDVD of wheezy such that if I boot from the dvd, it will take me into gnome with orca running, and/or it will boot

Re: When will the orca screen reader work again?

2013-06-03 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hallo Doug, I'll answer those points where I think I can *maybe* help. Doug Smith schrieb am 02.06.2013, 21:01 -0400: 4. When all the packages are installed and orca is working properly again, can someone please help me to set up the talking login screen for the gnome desktop? I think someone

Re: dell laptop install

2013-06-08 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Jude, Jude DaShiell schrieb am 08.06.2013, 11:42 -0400: The netinst dvd's won't install debian on my ddell laptop. The netinst dvd's need a driver in non-free-linux-firmware and won't download and Maybe you can install just from a full DVD image all the basic packages and afterwards

Re: dell laptop install

2013-06-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Jude DaShiell, Jude DaShiell schrieb am 08.06.2013, 14:38 -0400: Using a full debiaan dvd, how can software speak be enabled on boot? As usual with the s key from the boot menu, worked here. I'll need to get to the boot prompt first too and in a windows environment that may be easier

Re: need some accessible command-line tools

2013-06-20 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Don, Don Raikes schrieb am 19.06.2013, 14:23 -0700: I am building a console-only debian-based live/installed system, and I am looking for any suggestions on packages for the following: 1. Pdf to text/html conversion (found pdftohtml, but not pdftotext). Install poppler-utils, then

Re: Problem with speech-dispatcher / IBMtts on unstable

2013-08-31 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Shérab, Shérab schrieb am 31.08.2013, 17:53 +0200: At the moment it fails because libasound_module_conf_pulse.so is missing. It's a 64 bits architecture here and the file is normally provided by the package libasound2-plugins. But ibmtts is provided in binary form only and it's 32 bits

modemmanager / inaccessible install for serial displays

2013-09-25 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, in the current [wheezy] installer, the modemmanager (in the network configuration screen) kills the connection to a serial braille display controlled by BRLTTY. I know that the problem is known, but there is not yet a fix, except for restarting BRLTTY, not really suitable for new users Is

Re: modemmanager / inaccessible install for serial displays

2013-09-28 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 25.09.2013, 16:11 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Wed 25 Sep 2013 16:00:19 +0200, a écrit : I know that the problem is known, Where is it known? I don't see where modemmanager is used in the installer, could you provide the steps you use to reproduce

Re: eSpeak command not emitting sound after disabling pulse audio

2013-10-24 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Reece Dunn schrieb am 24.10.2013, 9:21 +0100: On 24 October 2013 09:09, Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de wrote: I have used the command suggested in the wiki to disable pulseaudio: dpkg-divert --add --rename /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf Now, running commands like espeak

Re: eSpeak command not emitting sound after disabling pulse audio

2013-10-24 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Jason, Jason White schrieb am 24.10.2013, 20:51 +1100: Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de wrote: I have used the command suggested in the wiki to disable pulseaudio: dpkg-divert --add --rename /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf I don't think that's enough to disable it if PulseAudio

Re: Almost Done with Installation!

2013-10-27 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 27.10.2013, 21:01 +0100: Hunter Jozwiak, le Sun 27 Oct 2013 04:05:17 -0400, a écrit : Does Debian start Gnome automatically, If you installed the graphical desktop, yes. and how does the login prompt work? Do you type in the username and tab over and type

Gnome 3.8 and orca

2013-11-02 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, today I finally got my Unstable box back with an (for me working) GNOME session. However the application menu (I guess it's called „activities”) is not accessible. Pressing alt+f1 leads to a non-speech area. Pressing escape however brings me back to the panel where I can review (and since

Re: systemd and accessible vt's

2013-12-03 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Halim, Halim Sahin schrieb am 03.12.2013, 18:17 +0100: Last week I've read about a rfc in systemd which tries to implement vt in userspace. In that case config_vt in kernel don't need to be set. If someone tries to remove vt support from kernel completely we.ll loose a great, stable

Re: orca quite old

2013-12-11 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Jarek Czekalski schrieb am 11.12.2013, 8:47 +0100: People on Orca list ask why Debian has so old gnome-orca, 3.4. Ubuntu has 3.10. Could you explain? http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-orca.html The page suggests that the package was last touched in June 2012. I already asked on this

Re: edbrowse in Stable

2013-12-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Jean-Philippe, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe schrieb am 17.12.2013, 23:57 +0100: Most have JS support. links2, elinks for instance. I'm in doubt for lynx. w3m I don't think. W3m has definitely none. Have you used one of the mentioned browsers on sites wich require Javascript? I have tried elinks

gnome-orca from svn doesn't build

2014-01-26 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, I wanted to test the current status of the gnome-orca package and if I could be of some help. But when trying to execute dpkg-buildpackage, I get: [...] add_directory() only handles directories at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm line 538. Has anyone an idea why this happens?

Re: gnome-orca from svn doesn't build

2014-01-27 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Mario, Mario Lang schrieb am 27.01.2014, 9:50 +0100: Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de writes: I wanted to test the current status of the gnome-orca package and if I could be of some help. But when trying to execute dpkg-buildpackage, I get: [...] add_directory() only handles

Re: gnome-orca from svn doesn't build

2014-02-06 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Mario, Mario Lang schrieb am 29.01.2014, 16:01 +0100: Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de writes: Mario Lang schrieb am 27.01.2014, 9:50 +0100: Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de writes: I wanted to test the current status of the gnome-orca package and if I could be of some help

orca for unstable

2014-02-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, just to avoid race conditions: I am now looking into the gnome orca package to get it into unstable. Please tell me if anyone of you is working also on this package. Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?de-0 Freies

Re: orca for unstable

2014-02-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Klaus, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Knopper schrieb am 10.02.2014, 11:37 +0100: I still got some minor and major problems with the current Debian/unstable version. Yes, I know how to use reportbug, but two of these were actually serious showstoppers for my otherwise working platform, so I'm

Re: orca for unstable

2014-02-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Klaus / rest, Sebastian Humenda schrieb am 10.02.2014, 13:47 +0100: For me Orca starts up but fully ignores my running speech-dispatcher which I configured to use Alsa. As soon as I open the configuration screen, change to the speech settings and press 2-3 times tab, I get screen

Re: Debian sid, orca, and login screen

2014-02-23 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Germano, Germano Carella schrieb am 22.02.2014, 23:13 +0100: Now, I can't start orca at login screen. I tried to do this: su -s /bin/sh -c 'eval $(dbus-launch) ; export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID ; GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set

Testing Orca was: Re: gnome-orca: python-speechd is gone

2014-02-24 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Paul, Paul Gevers schrieb am 23.02.2014, 10:29 +0100: On 22-02-14 22:00, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Let's go for it then. Thanks for your work! So, I went ahead and uploaded the package. But please, members of a11y list, could you test this and please let me know if you find issue (or

speech-dispatcher: speaks with high pitch capitaized words

2014-02-24 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, my speech-dispatcher speaks every word starting with a capital letter completely with high pitch. I have set: DefaultCapLetRecognition none I have tested it with spd-say and Orca and it occurs in both. For error tracing, I attach the speechd.conf. Has anybody an idea why this

Re: Orca, gdm3 and gnome desktop: updates

2014-02-24 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Germano Carella schrieb am 24.02.2014, 22:22 +0100: I disabled definitively gdm3, 'cause orca is unable to start. I tried all things, all commands I found on internet, but anything appens; orca is silent. Finally, I reinstalled gnome-desktop-environment, uninstalled gdm3 and purged

Re: Testing brltty 5.0

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Mario, Mario Lang schrieb am 27.02.2014, 14:06 +0100: brltty 5.0 in the git repo is almost ready for upload. Thanks for your work. If you have the time, please give it a spin before we upload 5.0-1. Here is a recipe to build brltty packages from the git repo: I've tried to build it and

Re: Testing brltty 5.0

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Reece, Reece Dunn schrieb am 28.02.2014, 15:33 +: On 28 February 2014 15:08, Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de wrote: Mario Lang schrieb am 27.02.2014, 14:06 +0100: brltty 5.0 in the git repo is almost ready for upload. Thanks for your work. If you have the time, please give

Re: Testing brltty 5.0

2014-03-01 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, Reece Dunn schrieb am 28.02.2014, 17:01 +: On 28 February 2014 16:49, Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de wrote: Do you have a custom build of espeak that has libespeak.so.1 in /usr/lib? Well, there was one, indeed. Thought I would have removed all remainings of that. Now it builds

Bug#706544: gnome-orca: No more braille output after restarting orca

2014-04-25 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, When i run orca for the first time - after login - speech and braille both work fine. After restarting orca i have no more braille output anymore. I quitted orca by pressing Insert + Q and restarted it by pressing Alt + F2, typing in orca and pressing enter. I have tried so on a Debian

Accessibility of Java 8

2015-03-02 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, I've installed openjdk-8-jre-jamvm, updated my standard java command to point to it and edited /etc/java-8-openjdk/accessibility.properties to have a line like: assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper but when launching a program, I get: Exception in thread main

Re: Accessibility of Java 8

2015-03-04 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 04.03.2015, 19:47 +0100: Sebastian Humenda, le Mon 02 Mar 2015 20:42:22 +, a écrit : I've installed openjdk-8-jre-jamvm, updated my standard java command to point to it and edited /etc/java-8-openjdk/accessibility.properties to have a line like: Have you

Re: edbrowse: javascript not working

2015-06-17 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 15.06.2015, 22:18 +0200: Sebastian Humenda, le Mon 15 Jun 2015 20:04:44 +0100, a écrit : when visiting a site which requires javascript, I get: the following error: edbrowse http://google.de no errors no trailing newline 17958 Unable

edbrowse: javascript not working

2015-06-15 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, when visiting a site which requires javascript, I get: the following error: edbrowse http://google.de no errors no trailing newline 17958 Unable to exec edbrowse-js, javascript has been disabled. 408 I am running Debian Unstable with edbrowse 3.5.3 from the archive.

Re: edbrowse: javascript not working

2015-06-15 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, sorry, I accidentally sent this message. But when already on the list. Does anybody experience similar issues? Thanks Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de (English|Deutsch) | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/blog FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionaries - http://www.freedict.org Freies

Re: restart of brltty not working correctly

2015-06-30 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Halim, Halim Sahin schrieb am 30.06.2015, 14:23 +0200: When I try to systemctl restart brltty The shell freezes. I get that rarely too and usually a press of a key brings BRLTTY back. Are you using a keyboard table? In any case I think that systemd is restarting BRLTTY too fast. A work-around

LightDM a11y not working after Unstable upgrade

2015-11-12 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, after an update from Debian Jessie to Debian sid, I've noticed that the LightDM accessibility is not working anymore. Orca starts with the usual greeter message, but is silent afterwards. Neither keyboard input nor mouse clicks produce any speech/braille output. There's an orca process still

Re: LightDM a11y not working after Unstable upgrade

2015-11-15 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 14.11.2015, 21:28 +0100: >Sebastian Humenda, on Thu 12 Nov 2015 22:05:31 +0100, wrote: >> after an update from Debian Jessie to Debian sid, I've noticed that the >> LightDM >> accessibility is not working anymore. > >Please see bug

Re: GNOME Accessibility Observations #1

2016-05-30 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Mario Lang schrieb am 30.05.2016, 14:14 +0200: >The following chain of events just happened on my machine at work: [..] >* However, there is now no speech output anymore, only Braille. I'm experiencing this frequently after a crash of the x-server / after a restart of Orca. "killall

Font size on Linux tty

2016-02-19 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi all, with KMS being the default now for virtually all my systems, I have got a problem when working on a console. The font size is too small. I have activated the terminus font in the size 16x32 (the largest) and also decreased the resolution from 19xx/10xx to 1024/768. Still the tty is 160

Re: BRLTTY: errorneous systemd unit

2016-03-15 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 15.03.2016, 12:37 +0100: >Sebastian Humenda, on Tue 15 Mar 2016 12:02:36 +0100, wrote: >> Samuel Thibault schrieb am 15.03.2016, 1:22 +0100: >> >Sebastian Humenda, on Wed 09 Mar 2016 10:28:07 +0100, wrote: >> >> after the rec

Re: BRLTTY: errorneous systemd unit

2016-03-15 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 15.03.2016, 1:22 +0100: >Sebastian Humenda, on Wed 09 Mar 2016 10:28:07 +0100, wrote: >> after the recent BRLTTY upgrade (in testing), the systemd unit for BRLTTY >> seems >> broken. > >I guess this is related with Bug#818241 t

BRLTTY: errorneous systemd unit

2016-03-09 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi all, after the recent BRLTTY upgrade (in testing), the systemd unit for BRLTTY seems broken. After BRLTTY was started, it only announces the usual greeting and stops again. After the service has been stopped manually, BRLTTY can be started without issues from the command line. I have attached

Re: OCR

2016-04-28 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe schrieb am 27.04.2016, 20:01 +0200: >After test of various OCR, I feel that Tesseract, the most advanced OCR >engine on Linux, hasn't noawadays all ways to be as performant as >commercial utilities. Even if it's wrapped in some tools like Lios >or gimagereader, the

libasound2: brltty-espeak stops working with 1.1.2-1

2016-08-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Package: libasound2 Version: 1.1.2 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: breaks system for blind users [RC, stretch] After an upgrade to the specified version, BRLTTY starts up with speech working (brltty-espeak is using libao -> libasoun2), but speech stops working after roughly a minute.

Re: libasound2: brltty-espeak stops working with 1.1.2-1

2016-08-10 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Jude DaShiell schrieb am 10.08.2016, 21:43 -0400: >I've read one report in which speech-dispatcher is identically and adversely >impacted too. Might be, but that doesn't apply for me on Debian testing. It would make sense though. Sebastian signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#854295: brltty-espeak: crashes while emitting speech

2017-02-06 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel Thibault schrieb am 06.02.2017, 0:21 +0100: >Could you install: [...] >brltty-dbgsym > >> #0 0x7f3fec3c7540 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 > >and libasound2-dbgsym libasound2 was already installed, do you have any idea why the symbols don't show up? The full

Re: latest stretch installer and braille

2017-02-06 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi mjonsson1...@gmail.com schrieb am 06.02.2017, 14:42 +0100: >Seems it are broken What exactly is broken? Could you please describe the steps you've taken and what the outcome was? Then we can try to find a solution. Cheers Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de (English|Deutsch) | Blog:

Re: SV: SV: latest stretch installer and braille

2017-02-07 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi mjonsson1...@gmail.com schrieb am 06.02.2017, 16:25 +0100: >Yes the baum are connected to the vm I have no more ideas, especially because I'm not a VM user myself. Could you write the image to a USB flash drive and start the installation from there? You don't need to do the full install (to

Re: SV: latest stretch installer and braille

2017-02-06 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi mjonsson1...@gmail.com schrieb am 06.02.2017, 14:55 +0100: >Booting up the vm with the stretch dvd mounted >And baum supervario2 connected from usb Have you actually enabled pass-through for your braille device? It could be that the VM doesn't know about your device. Sebastian -- Web:

Bug#854295: brltty-espeak: crashes while emitting speech

2017-02-05 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Package: brltty-espeak Version: 5.4-6 Severity: important Hi Every now and then, BRLTTY crashes. It looks as if there is an issue while emitting speech using espeak-ng. I'm not sure whether the issue is actually in BRLTTY or espeak-ng, but I couldn't encounter any issues while using

Re: [HEADS-UP] Please test Re: Speech overlapping with espeak-ng

2017-01-23 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Øyvind Øyvind Lode schrieb am 23.01.2017, 14:12 +0100: >I've upgraded both brltty and espeakup (remotely via ssh since I'm at work >now). >I'll help you out test later today. Please also upgrade brltty-espeak. >What exactly should I test? - Do you realize some kind of overlap when typing

Re: speech-dispatcher and RC bugs

2017-01-23 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Luke Yelavich schrieb am 18.01.2017, 13:31 +1100: >On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 08:48:10AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> That being said, I find #838665 a bit abusive. I actually had to >> re-read several times "software that imports all installed Python >> modules": how can that be a good

Re: [HEADS-UP] Please test Re: Speech overlapping with espeak-ng

2017-01-23 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Samuel Thibault schrieb am 23.01.2017, 15:43 +0100: >Sebastian Humenda, on Mon 23 Jan 2017 14:41:23 +0100, wrote: >> At the moment, I feel as if a really small cancel pause would be the option I >> could live best with. > >Just to check, did you try just plain 0 cancel

Bug#854295: brltty-espeak: crashes while emitting speech

2017-02-20 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Samuel Thibault schrieb am 13.02.2017, 10:52 +0100: >Sebastian Humenda, on Mon 13 Feb 2017 10:47:33 +0100, wrote: >> I haven't encountered any issues yet. It is rather hard to say whether it is >> fixed, because the bug is hard to reproduce. However, there have been no >> f

Re: looking at debian

2017-02-18 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Mark Peveto schrieb am 18.02.2017, 4:45 -0600: >I'm thinking about working with debian on one of my machines, but I'm totally >blind, and need a talking installer. I'm hoping someone could send me a >direct link to one, and instructions to get going. Have you tried searching for

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