Re: Tips for accessibly Managing/Navigating Grub2 in a Dual boot Scenario?

2023-06-11 Thread Rob Whyte
Push end to go to bottom of list and up arrow once. That is how I reliably do it. I depends on age of system of course. Might be worthwhile trying from the bottom though instead of arrowing down through a growing list of options. cheers On 12/6/23 07:23, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Thanks! I

Re: installing ubuntu with speakup

2023-02-04 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, if you have Voxin, voxinup is another ocnnector. systemctl enable voxinup and you have console speech. cheers On 2/4/23 02:41, David wrote: Hi there – After numerous tries, I am still unsuccessful in getting speakup to work with ubuntu, and I contribute that largely to operator error

CAVI course offerings this semester

2021-01-31 Thread Rob Whyte
in, your full name, date of birth, country of origin and where you heard about us. For more information email Neil as per above email, or r...@ciscovision.org Please share around any interested parties or organisations Thank you Rob -- Warm regards Rob Whyte JAWS certified 2018 -- Ubuntu

Re: Orca not working with ubuntu-mate-20.10 installer on Live CD?

2020-11-28 Thread Rob Whyte
I hit super key for Mate edition, started typing ubuiquity and instlal ubuntu came up, i was able to install easily. Warm regards RobWhyte JAWS certified 2018 On 29/11/20 9:40 am, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Not even sure how to do that in this case. Orca isn’t reading any options at all. When the

Re: orca not working on ubuntu mate 16.04.2

2017-04-11 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi Don, you start Orca with Alt Super S. cheers On 11/04/17 09:39, Don Raikes wrote: > Hello, > > I just completed the installation of ubuntu-mate 16.04.2 onto my desktop > system. > After reboot orca will not start. I tried using the alt+windowsKey+s key > combination which should start

Re: Sonar GNU Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-15 Thread Rob Whyte
to our support list. Subscribe by mailing vinux-support+subscr...@googlegroups.com cheers Rob On 15/03/17 22:59, Milton wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Great news! Will Vinux 7 based on Fedora and when will the release be > planned? > Milton > > Op 15-03-17 om 12:53 sch

Re: Sonar GNU Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-15 Thread Rob Whyte
u support? > Regards, > Wolfram > Am 15.03.2017 um 12:21 schrieb Rob Whyte: >> Sonar merges with the Vinux Project. >> http://www.sonargnulinux.com and http://www.vinuxproject.org team up. >> >> Exciting news for the Sonar and Vinux communities. >> A specia

Sonar GNU Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-15 Thread Rob Whyte
, and new teams have been created within Vinux, with the influx of Sonar developers and users. Project leader Rob Whyte said that the merge will minimize fragmentation and combine resources. Most importantly, having a larger active community will allow us to develop some visions we have had for some time

Re: trouble booting Ubuntu

2017-03-04 Thread Rob Whyte
I have not been following this thread but I would use live media to mount and repair it that way. Are you familiar iwth how to mount a partition and bind proc dev sys etc to repair grub or run fsck on unmounted file systems? Cheers On 05/03/17 16:01, Jude DaShiell wrote: > My guess is,

Re: partitioning a u s b drive

2017-03-01 Thread Rob Whyte
Ubuntu users install espeakup instead. cheers On 02/03/17 07:40, Daniel Crone wrote: > Hello Rob. Did not know that. Which distribution and which desktop is your > favorite? > Also, is speakup still being maintained at all? >> On Mar 1, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Rob Whyte <fu...@t

Re: partitioning a u s b drive

2017-03-01 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, when you hit space on the drive, you should be given options like format, ext4 and a mount point of / 'slash'. Do you already know that though? cheers Rob On 02/03/17 03:22, Daniel Crone wrote: > Ubuntu 16.04 is on my computer. > I want to use my ubuntu dvd to install ubuntu to a u s b

Re: cannot use the accessibility ppa on ubuntu 16.10

2017-01-18 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, the problem is that the archive does not yet contain a Yakkety release. The latest is Xenial, you could edit your source in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ for the accessibility archive and change yakkety to xenial and apt-get update again. Good luck Rob On 19/01/17 14:07, Amir wrote: > Hi, >

Vinux 5.1 released

2017-01-18 Thread Rob Whyte
/Vinux.AccessibleLinux/ http://www.facebook.com/groups/vinux/ Acknowledgements * Rob Whyte, Vinux project manager. * Luke Yelavich. Development team leader. * Bill Taylor. Testing team leader. * Karen Searle for proofreading and editing our documentation, website and wiki. Also for designing our

Re: getting Orca back

2016-11-18 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi Glen, I have seen you for several years now struggling to get an OS up and running. Do you change operating system a lot and if so why? Have you considered using Vinux which is setup out of the box for you? Thanks Rob Whyte On 19/11/16 14:12, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Hi All, >

Re: Kodi

2016-11-10 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, sorry I forgot to reply to the list. This is the link: https://github.com/ruuk/service.xbmc.tts.git cheers On 11/11/16 13:02, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Thank you Rob. > Glenn > > - Original Message - > *From:* Rob Whyte <mailto:fu...@thefudge.net&

Re: Alt+ Super+S Not working on Most Versions of Live CD

2016-11-04 Thread Rob Whyte
I confirm that the key combination does work in 16.04 and 16.10. Are you using the command as you write it with the ALT key first? As at times the order does matter. I would like to suggest waiting for the drum sounds as you have done, and try some different variations of speed and ever so

Re: Orca not speaking when I install Ubuntu 16.4 into vmware

2016-08-25 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, It should be quite simple for you to use a desktop image and install packages. Ubuntu server is not accessible unless you have some assistance to get set up. If you can get some sighted assistance to install, log in and enable ssh access then go ahead. There are how ever other alternatives

Re: making an ISO image

2016-08-06 Thread Rob Whyte
:28, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Okay, I'll try that, but I did do: > mount -a > assuming that would get it, but I'm not that good at some of this. > Thanks. > Glenn > > - Original Message ----- > *From:* Rob Whyte <mailto:fu...@thefudge.net> >

Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image

2016-08-06 Thread Rob Whyte
What have ou tried when fixing your old install on sda2. That should be recoverable quite easily. You need to mount the /dev from your currently running Ubuntu to the mounted partition. For example mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev Assuming that sda2 is mounted to /mnt Repeat that for sys and

Re: gnome shell versus mate

2016-04-01 Thread Rob Whyte
Yes if your distro is Ubuntu based it is in the apt archives. Would enjoy chatting with you on IRC sometime about your project. cheers Rob On 02/04/16 08:30, Don Raikes wrote: > Hi rob, > > I haven't ever heard of it can I get it from apt? > > -Original Message----- &g

Re: gnome shell versus mate

2016-04-01 Thread Rob Whyte
don't know all the tools so it would be helpful to have the menus to guide me > into knowing the various tools and their general functions. > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Whyte [mailto:fu...@thefudge.net] > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 12:43 PM > To: ubuntu-accessibili

Re: gnome shell versus mate

2016-04-01 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, What frustrates you about Gnome Don? cheers Rob On 02/04/16 03:30, Don Raikes wrote: > I have been frustrated with gnome-shell for a while now and want to go back > to mate. > I downloaded the ubuntu-mate-15.10 desktop iso and have tried installing it > in a vmware virtual machine, but

Re: accessibility profiles, what is it and how it works?

2016-03-30 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, thanks for the detailed explanation. Look forward to the wiki article. cheers On 30/03/16 16:03, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:31:46PM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: >> Hi, >> after today's update, when I press alt f10 key, I get accessibility >> profiles menu. I am using Orca

Re: Installing Ubuntu without GRUB

2016-01-10 Thread Rob Whyte
I have not heard of a bios offering to boot partitions, only drives. What is the motherboard or bios you are using? You could re-install your windows boot loader and try to get that to boot your Linux OS instead of it is that important to you. Can you see any of the available options though,

Vinux 5.0 released

2015-11-03 Thread Rob Whyte
on Twitter @vinuxnews. We are on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Vinux.AccessibleLinux/ http://www.facebook.com/groups/vinux/ = Acknowledgements = * Rob Whyte, Vinux project manager. * Luke Yelavich. Development team leader. * Bill Taylor. Testing team leader. * Karen Searle

Re: orca and firefox

2015-08-19 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, yes you will find the crashes are due to Voxin. sudo killall -9 speech-dispatcher will get you along your way quickly. Thanks Rob On 20/08/15 06:07, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote: Hi. Version 0.8.3 is the current version. I suspect that this problem is related to voxin, although I

Re: ubuntu server

2014-08-13 Thread Rob Whyte
Chad, I suggest you stick to trying one thing at a time so you don't get out of your depth. A server typically does not have a graphical environment running on it, this is called a GUI. Orca runs in a GUI. You can get console speech as Bert mentioned easily enough in Ubuntu Server with a few quick

Re: will the Dash be accessible for Orca in Trusty?

2014-08-11 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, I believe there is a race condition preventing Orca from reading this reliably. A bit of playing with the flat review will sometimes get it accessible. I am aware that Luke has been trying to track the problem down but not sure if there has been any progress. Is Luke the only one working on

Re: Trouble finding drives in Ubuntu-Gnome

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, in Nautilus files when in your home folder shift tab a couple of times to the bookmarks, computer and available file systems. Hope that is helpful, otherwise there is a gnome extension called removal drives which is pretty good. Cheers Rob Whyte On 13/05/14 12:33, Lenny wrote: Hi, I am

Chad,Re: ubuntu 14.04 question

2014-04-21 Thread Rob Whyte
Chad, I believe I already mentioned Super ALT S to toggle speech on and off. The Super key is also known as the Windows key. Rob On 18/04/14 13:54, chad baker wrote: hi rob question i got speech through the whole install but when it asked me to restart i have no speech at all is there

Re: trouble with 14.04

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi Chad, It is accessible. Are you aware that super alt S starts Orca at the Lightdm login screen? I do not think that the drum sound defaults to being enabled. There has been quite a lot of bug fixing worked on for accessibility. I hope once you get your system up and running you find the overall

Re: trouble with 14.04

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Whyte
/2014 04:53 PM, Rob Whyte wrote: Hi Chad, It is accessible. Are you aware that super alt S starts Orca at the Lightdm login screen? I do not think that the drum sound defaults to being enabled. There has been quite a lot of bug fixing worked on for accessibility. I hope once you get your

Re: trouble with 14.04

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Whyte
the installation it said use Ldm the box was unchecked i didn’t check it On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Rob Whyte fu...@thefudge.net wrote: Hi Chad, If by ldm you mean Lightdm, it may pay if you can give some more information or correct me if I have assuemd something different. Lightdm is the default

Re: trouble with 14.04

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Whyte
wrote: Is the Unity 3d also accessible? Happy hacking. Krishnakant. On 04/18/2014 05:23 AM, Rob Whyte wrote: Hi Chad, It is accessible. Are you aware that super alt S starts Orca at the Lightdm login screen? I do not think that the drum sound defaults to being enabled. There has been quite

Re: Vinux Keyboard commands

2014-04-01 Thread Rob Whyte
://wiki.vinuxproject.org/unity Good luck Rob Whyte y http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/unity On 01/04/14 16:01, Lenny wrote: Hi, I've been searching to find a list of keyboard commands for Vinux. This Ubuntu, 12.04, is challenging, and the old menu ways don't work much. Can someone send me a list

Re: ubuntu 14.04 and firefox accessibility

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Whyte
H, the problem has been resolved and pretty sure was to do with gtk support with Orca. Rob On 05/03/14 00:43, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: Hello list, I know 14.04 is still in beta but I installed it and found this problem. Everything seems to work fine but the only problem is that firefox isn't

Re: ubuntu 14.04 and firefox accessibility

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Whyte
-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true This did not fix the issue. i'm sure it is something simple I just don't know what the problem could be. Thanks for your time and help. On 03/04/2014 02:59 PM, Rob Whyte wrote: H, the problem has been resolved and pretty sure

Re: Can't log back in on XpLike Ubuntu

2014-01-19 Thread Rob Whyte
the X server and again, log you back in automatically. If you do not hear Orca straight away press: Alt F2 and type in orca Are you aware that is quite an old image now and there are other blind friendly options out there like Vinux, www.vinuxproject.org Good luck Rob Whyte On 20/01/14 13:41

Re: [orca-list] VINUX-SUPPORT: RE: Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

2013-07-25 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, I think this thread can be closed now. It has generated a lot of back and fourth and I think we all get the point. If parties involved would like to continue off lists that would be preferable. Kind regards Rob Whyte On 24/07/13 07:31, Christopher Chaltain wrote: I do not work

Vinux 4.0 now released

2013-06-10 Thread Rob Whyte
: The Vinux development team currently plans on supporting 4.0 until June 2015. Our mailing list has a supportive community on Google groups at http://groups.google.com/group/vinux-support or you can subscribe by sending an email to vinux-support+subscr...@googlegroups.com Acknowledgments: Rob Whyte

Vinux 4.0 now released

2013-05-31 Thread Rob Whyte
: The Vinux development team currently plans on supporting 4.0 until June 2015. Our mailing list has a supportive community on Google groups at http://groups.google.com/group/vinux-support or you can subscribe by sending an email to vinux-support+subscr...@googlegroups.com Acknowledgments: Rob Whyte

new users - Australia

2011-03-21 Thread Rob Whyte
interested in bleeding edge technology and usually my interest outweight my abilities :) I look forward to trying to assist the list and watching how it works, how tasks are assigned and hope to be able to contribute in the future. Kind regards Rob Whyte -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu