Ubuntu 14.04 or Sonar.
Happy hacking.
On Friday 26 September 2014 11:52 PM, Lenny wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a version of Linux to run on my Asus 701.
It has a Celeron Mobile 900 MHZ processor and 1GB of RAM.
Ubuntu XP-Like version 10.04 runs good on it, but every time I try to
install Voxin
Making dash accessible should not be a hard work if it is not done so far.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Monday 11 August 2014 02:24 PM, Milton wrote:
Hi developers,
Can you tell me if the Dash will be accessible with Orca in Trusty in
the near future? It is good to know if this will hapen or
Dear all,
I am wondering if Ubuntu-gnome is the only option for serious use of
latest Orca.
What I mean to ask is if Ubuntu 14.04 can be used very well with it's
dea pfault Unity 3d system?
Is it as good as the old Unity 2d?
I had asked a few questions about gnome shell and I still don't seem
Was that Ubuntu-gnome version?
They do maintain one.
Try that and I guess it should be well to do.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 04/18/2014 02:59 AM, chad baker wrote:
hi i just grabbed 14.04
it restarted after the installation and not getting orca or the login drum
also during the
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 a lot of bug
I wonder if Ubuntu guys will afterall come up with a version with gnome
3.10.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 02/24/2014 05:45 PM, Petra Ritter wrote:
Hello,
On 27th February the Beta 1 should be released
Has this version accessibility build in all ready or have we to
waiting for a later
hello all,
I wish to know what can be expected from Ubuntu 14.04 as far as
accessibility is concerned?
1, will Unity 3d be finally accessible and to what extent?
2, Will there be a possibility to have Gnome 3.10 on the said version?
3, I saw a mail few days before on pdf acccessibility through
This is an extremely important issue which I had also raised a few days ago.
I am very very interested to know.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 11/15/2013 02:55 PM, Hammer Attila wrote:
Hi,
Estimated the Ubuntu 14.04 final release what GNOME version will be
ship? GNOME 3.8 or 3.10? How will be
I guess mint linux had that interface if I am not mistaken.
But again do they have Orca on it is another question.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 11/08/2013 11:49 AM, Lenny wrote:
this will be my last post on this, because either folks have no clue of what
I was asking about, or they are so
Hi Doug,
I have the same experiences.
Infact me and my wife got together due to Free software.
I have all my students exclusively use GNU/Linux for all their
programming and personal work, they have no problems with it.
There are a few states in our country which implement free software as a
Well, I see that Ubuntu wishes to be on tabs or phones or all other such
machines, but I don't clearly see that the vission has accessibility
that seriously.
These days I hear that android is quite improved on accessibility and
has done so pritty quickly.
This is what it means by being serious
and how many developers are working on Android? Canonical is not
making a profit. What is Google's profit and the other companies
contributing to Android?
As the saying goes, I think comparing Ubuntu to Android is like
comparing apples to oranges.
On 10/30/2013 05:00 PM, Krishnakant Mane
This time around when 13.10 came out, I was a bit more hopefull that
this will be a fine precursor to the next lts release which will have
wonderful progress since 12.04.
But Now my worries are getting more and more grave as to how long will
we have to stay with 12.04 as the most accessible
I had the same curiosity for long time.
I would like to read the documentation, specially for spreadsheet.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 09/11/2013 08:00 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
Hello,
I think it is a good idea to go to the tools - settings... then
inside the accessibility treeview branch
Correct,
You have to do some configurations for xfce.
And I would rather suggest you include Orca for either gnome shell
version 3.8 or xfce.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 08/19/2013 02:57 PM, Jimmy Sjölund wrote:
Hi,
I'm part of the devel-team for Ubuntu Studio and we received a request to
This essentially means we must try things pretty early on and start
reporting bugs agressively.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 07/24/2013 06:37 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
Wonderful news! I certainly feel better for it. Thanks for all your hard
work on qt-at-spi.
Alex M
From:
character by character or word by word navigation was not
possible at the time. I hope that's gotten better since then. I haven't
looked at it since May or June of last year, I think. It is a very
important piece of the puzzle.
Alex M
From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krm...@gmail.com]
Sent
I think the issue here is the total mindset and also the fact that many
so called smart business men don't realize the business they can
generate out of accessibility.
Firstly, there are those who don't *still* beleive that a totaly blind
person like me can actually use a Phone, let alone a
From what has been said about QT accessibility off late, it could
infact be a blessing in disguise.
I think the people working on that front would have a better and real
answer though.
And we can go ahead with gnome shell if things bother us too much.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 07/23/2013
Gnome shell is 3.6 on Ubuntu 13.04 by default but you can add 3.8 which
in my experience is very accessible and nice to work with.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 05/06/2013 08:39 PM, Robert Cole wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I have enjoyed using fedora over the past year or so, but I just do
not
That seems fairly good enough.
I would think that 3.8 has more improvemnets, but don't know really how
to set it up on Ubuntu 13.04.
Happy hacking.
krishnakant.
On 04/26/2013 11:25 PM, Piñeiro wrote:
On 04/24/2013 05:46 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hello all,
Hello,
sorry, I'm arriving
Can some one give me quick overview of the basic desktop navigation?
How to use the application menu (some thing similar to alt + f1 in
Ubuntu 12.04 unity)?
Can I add (lock ) or unlock items from the launcher?
What is the command for top panel access?
Any other commands which I should know?
Hello all,
I wish to know if the Ubuntu 13.04 gnome edition is worth using for a
complete daily desktop?
As far as I can understand from the responses to my previous queries,
many suggest that Unity is still as good as 12.04.
But I understand that Gnome shell 3.6 is much more accessible than
hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 04/25/2013 04:24 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:46:39AM EST, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hello all,
I wish to know if the Ubuntu 13.04 gnome edition is worth using for
a complete daily desktop?
As far as I can understand from the responses to my previous
On 04/25/2013 08:11 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:16:43PM EST, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Still no confirmation for my query on some thing similar to Heads up
display?
Is such a feature there in Gnome 3.6?
No it is not. I am surprised you use the HUD, because its
wifi or mobile
broadband.
All this works so well with HUD.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.On 04/25/2013 08:11 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:16:43PM EST, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Still no confirmation for my query on some thing similar to Heads up
display?
Is such a feature
hello all,
Now I am in a fix.
I did upgrade to Libre Office 4.0 and find it very good in terms of
performance.
But till date I haven't had any luck for disabling Unity menu integration.
I wish to have access to file, edit, view ... menus like before.
I will be conducting a massive workshop in a
, 23 Apr 2013, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
hello all,
Now I am in a fix.
I did upgrade to Libre Office 4.0 and find it very good in terms of
performance.
But till date I haven't had any luck for disabling Unity menu integration.
I wish to have access to file, edit, view ... menus like before.
I
to any of those questions.
On 04/20/2013 10:45 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hello all,
A couple of my curious students asked me if Ubuntu 13.04 would be any
better in terms of accessibility as compared to 12.04?
Which version of Gnome shell will be available?
what about Unity 3d?
Happy hacking
Ah, so they have not finalized the release date is it?
I haven't been to Ubuntu home page off late so not really aware.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 04/21/2013 06:36 PM, Kyle wrote:
I'm just a little concerned that the GNOME edition is still running
GNOME 3.6 + Orca 3.8, whereas Ubuntu 13.04
:
1. still no solution for menu bar access with Libre office 4
(Krishnakant Mane)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:07:34 +0530
From: Krishnakant Mane krm...@gmail.com
To: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List
Hello all.
I had previously reported this problem.
I still can't access the Libre Office menu bar.
I am aware that this is because the Unity integration in LO is not stable.
I wish to know if some one has a solution to disable the global menu
integration of LO with Unity?
I don't want to
I hope this resignation won't imply leaving the foss community.
Now a days many are being disappointed by the way Ubuntu is going along
and I am sure we all might be looking for an alternative, debian seems
to be one of them.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 03/05/2013 03:19 AM, B. Henry wrote:
If one distro is named, then the person must make his stand clear and
the reasons for it.
May be there is a point which some might agree, but get the points out
at least.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 02/19/2013 10:30 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
Sorry for the cross posting, and I know
YOu won't be able to update that machine because the 10.10 repos have
no more updates, the support is over.
Installing 12.04 would help.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 02/12/2012, Lenny ger...@cableone.net wrote:
Hi,
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 on one of my netbooks, and since it keeps reminding
How can one update to gnome 3.6 on Sonar?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Wednesday 31 October 2012 10:45 PM, Kyle wrote:
Although Ubuntu 12.10 is not considered to be accessible out of the
box, I believe the installer still works without needing extra help,
and once installed, you can configure
I have the same experience.
Good to have this working with Orca.
This gives me another reason to stick to precise for at least one more year.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 05/17/2012 02:01 AM, Vojtěch Polášek wrote:
Hi,
I would like to announce, that HUD is accessible.
I don't know which
Hello all,
Off hand I can't really remember which file manager is used on Adriane
Knoppix on lxde desktop, but an Idea crossed my mind?
I am not into graphics based library although my programming brain can't
find a way to unjustify this idea.
Why can't we have that same file manager run on
Hello all,
I found an interesting fact about Thunderbird accessibility.
I guess this might be fixed in the next update to tb although I don't
know why this happens.
When I have an active INTERNET connection, it is but natural that tb
will connect to the server, google in my case.
After a few
hello all,
I have started to review accessibility of Thunderbird again.
As reported yesterday, I did start browsing the emails offline.
Now I have another problem which is known for quite some time.
Yesterday Thunderbird was opening very fast.
But today It has slowed down.
Infact I feel it should
On 05/10/2012 05:58 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:09:25PM PDT, bando?ers wrote:
So, while I agree that there's no great need for most people to use the
transitional, (between LTS), releases, but am left with a question.
Does this mean that those who don't have 3d graphics
Hi Miltan,
So what all keyboard commands you have set?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:46:34PM +0200, Milton wrote:
Hi all,
Many thanks to all Orca and Ubuntu devlopers. Today after updating my system
and define the keys in the keyboard application for alt_f4 alt_tab etc
The only thing I find irritating these days with 12.04 is that Orca
has a hard time working with nautilus.
If one has to browse through home folder or documents etc, Orca takes
a lot of time to respond to the navigation using arrow keys.
Else all is working fine, at least at my end.
Happy hacking.
Hello all,
Some days back there was a thread on this list about the login music not
playing after password is entered.
Some one had posted a command which I have lost.
I tryed to dig my archives, but can't find the email.
Can some one give me the command again?
I had put it in my startup apps and
think we press alt + f10 to get to the top panel.
Then moving to left takes us to device menu.
Now pressing up arow once will take us to shutdown.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:26:26PM +0200, Hammer Attila wrote:
Hy,
Possible everybody already known, Unity Greeter
Oince I started to use mutt as my mail client, I have been looking for this
feature as well.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
, Apr 26, 2012 at 05:03:32PM -0600, Jeremy Lincicome wrote:
Hi list,
I am helping a new user to set up his Ubuntu box, and I was
wondering if there is a shortcut to
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:14:45AM -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
Hi.
Related to your problem running gedit as sudo, try rename the file
/etc/sudoers.d/a11y-sudo to /etc/sudoers.d/a11y-sudo.bak.
On 04/18/2012 04:15 AM, Vojtěch Polášek wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday, I have
Hello all,
After reading Joanie's email and looking at the tuns of errors we have
managed to fix, I would strongly recommend Ubuntu guys to include this
version (3.4.1) in the next daily build of Ubuntu.
Luke, would that be the case by default?
in that case please ignore my email.
Happy hacking.
, krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hello and thanks to Attila, Dave Andy etc.
Sure enough, after having the quickstart checked as instructed I have
all office softwares like calc loading faster.
But I am afraid, nothing more has come out from this change.
The problems of row header not getting set with capslok +r
On 11/04/2012, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote:
Doesn't Orca usually come up talking when you log on? I agree it's good
to turn on the log on sound, but I'm not sure how critical it is, and
I'm not sure the Ubuntu Accessibility team needs to tell us something we
can look up or
hello all,
I just tryed using calc for some important work and I was a bit disappointed.
firstly i pressed capslok + r for setting the row header.
But that feature does not work like it used to in older versions.
Note that for a blind person this is really crutial because 20 or 30
rows down the
Hello all,
Can some one tell me where is the preferences dialog in libre office
calc (or any office software ) and which tab has the quickstart
option?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 11/04/2012, Hammer Attila hamm...@pickup.hu wrote:
Hy Krisnakant,
This is a timing issue I think with at-spi2
the quick
start. When that's done, restart system. I think you will like the
improved responsiveness, over-all, and the renewed usability of Calc.
Cheers,
Dave
On 04/11/2012 11:44 AM, krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hello all,
Can some one tell me where is the preferences dialog in libre
Hi Dave,
Happy to know that you got a better experience with Unity this time.
With cut copy paste, I have one suggestion.
Why can't we have orca responding cut to clipboard or copy to
clipboard when we cut or copy and pasted from clipboard when we
paist it.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On
Hi,
Which daily build contains this bug?
I think since all major things are working pritty fine, this would be
quite easy to sort out.
I will have some good internet connection tomorrow so would download the
daily build for sure.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 04/04/12 20:24, Hammer Attila
So this is what we all hoped and it is the best that could happen in the
recent times.
Thanks for coordinating this and getting it done.
I see more and more progress happening with Ubuntu and Unity 2d for
accessibility.
Can I just update my existing installation on 4th april to get the same
hi Dave,
Wondering what has gone wrong?
I tryed my usb pen drive both on a netbook and on a machine with I5
processor with 3 gb ram.
My netbook has 2gb ram.
I made the disk with a sighted assistant using the USB startup disk creater.
I absolutely have no problems.
I hear the drums sound.
As I
Hi Charlie,
YOu are right, when the try Ubuntu screen comes I get the drum sound.
And since I had pressed ctrl + s during the first drum sound, I get Orca
talking every time I use the bootable pen drive.
I even here it tell me details about Try Ubuntu screen.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On
On 01/04/12 22:47, Dave Hunt wrote:
Hi,
That's great news re: the 01-April daily build of Ubuntu 12.04. How
do you get Unity 2D as your desktop? Do you run this as a flash drive
installation? Do you do the install in 3d, then change it after login?
I have the trouble coming my way
or something.
Regards
Justin Harford
On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
On 01/04/12 22:47, Dave Hunt wrote:
Hi,
That's great news re: the 01-April daily build of Ubuntu 12.04. How do you
get Unity 2D as your desktop? Do you run this as a flash drive installation?
Do you
Has any one tryed the latest Ubuntu precise beta2?
I remember that people had reported Unity 2d having issues with Orca not
reading out the menus with alt + f1 and the launcher?
Is it a reality, did somme one manage to reproduce the issue?
if yes, what is the current status?
Happy hacking.
' to 'ubuntu-2d', as I
could do on an installed system, and tried a reboot. This results in
a system that will not boot. True to form, for Canonical, they broke
accessibility for this up-coming release.
Cheers,
Dave
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Has any one tryed
amount of code is
changed. Now we need to ensure issues are reported, bugs are opened and
these issues get addressed before Ubuntu 12.04 is released.
On 30/03/12 10:38, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
This is very serious and I think Canonical is really letting us down.
It seems they are not as serious
-classic and you are in business.
Cheers!
On 3/30/2012 11:38 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
This is very serious and I think Canonical is really letting us down.
It seems they are not as serious about accessibility as they used to be.
I won't download the beta2 in this case.
Actually I am in some
menus?
Typing a filter string is very much like the Unity's launcher I guess?
And if so this means we have the best of all approaches.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
HTH,
Dave
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I have a little confusion when talking about
hello,
I would like to know if ubuntu hardy will have speech-dispatcher to
work with orca and espeak?
if this has been already discussed I am really sorry for repeating the
same, but I would strongly recommend that speech-dispatcher be used
for the reasons known to every one specially for those
hello,
I just downloaded ubuntu feisty dvd and was wondering if the following
commands needed for orca building will work without internet
connection?
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca and
sudo apt-get install gnome-common
in general I know it needs internet. but having 4 gb of ubuntu
packages is
hello,
in context to the questions asked by mohomad and the answers, I have
a pritty streight forward question.
I keep on going to schools in some rural areas of India. and for the
blind people out there, ubuntu with orca seams to me as the best
solution.
can some one tell me if I can do an
On 25/04/07, Lukas Loehrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just build a debian binary package of the latest svn revision of orca
before you go and you can simply install it offline. No need to build
it from scratch on every machine. Use the current package in Ubuntu as
a basis for your package.
I
hello all,
I tried using the psynaptec package manager in ubuntu 7.04 with orca.
but after I enter the sudo password for software installation, I don't
get any speach output.
is this a known bug and is there a work arround?
regards.
Krishnakant.
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Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list
ok,
so I need to install open office 2.2 on ubuntu 6.10 for best available
accessibility is it right?
if so then will just apt-get install get me the right version?
and as of firefox 3 will I need to setup some thing in my system?
till date I have mostly depended on apt-get so will I get the right
hi willi,
I am so happy to get such a positive response from you.
well I did not ask on the orca mailing list because I know that my
questions are too stupid for the linux geeks working on orca.
it was very kind of you to answer my questions so patiently and with
such positive frame of mind which
hello all,
I have been a passive listener on the accessibility issue so far.
I am in the process of setting up the second foss based computer
center for the visually handicap people here in India.
In one of the states called karala, it has become the government
policy to use foss based systems
hello,
I am so sorry to post on the wrong thread. so I am posting with new
subject line. my email follows.
I have been a passive listener on the accessibility issue so far.
I am in the process of setting up the second foss based computer
center for the visually handicap people here in India.
In
On 31/10/06, mike coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, how hard is it to install the server CD.
I have a computer I want to use as a server.
Also is there a way to get a screen reader installed.
I had the same questions too.
actually having a screen reader on a server system will be just
good documentation.
I can't find the changes though.
I am particularly interested in the accessibility development at the
open office side.
as I had mentioned previously, formatting information like bold and
italics is not spoken out.
has the problem been fixt?
further more reading an entire
hello all,
I have just got the edgy cd and now looking at some howto which I can follow.
for an older unstable version of orca, I followed
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=246334
but it says that the page is obsolit and there will be a new page.
now since edgy has finally been
hello,
I have been observing a lot of emails asking about the status of
firefox accessibility with orca.
I have also posted on the same issue a couple of times.
I will however like to mention a particular point.
it seams that the complete accessibility for firefox wont appear on
the desktop for
hello all accessibility gurus on the list.
after using ubuntu, it is for the first time that I felt like
promoting gnu/linux amongst the blind community. gentelmen, you are
doing a great job and I think by the end of this year november, ubuntu
should be pritty accessible.
I am going to speak at a
hello,
I am trying to install emacs and emacspeak on my ubuntu 6.06 system.
I downloaded all the needed packages (or some one kindly list them all for me).
but all packages show some time stamp and then gives erros.
can any one tell me what is the problem?
Krishnakant
--
Ubuntu-accessibility
hello henrik and other developres of this list.
this is probably the 4th time I am pointing this problem about openoffice.
I can't get the fonts attribute read out in openoffice word processor
and can't know what attributes or alignment I have changed/ set.
what is the problem.
am I doing some
hi henrik and other brillient people on the list.
I want to know what is the current status of KDE accessibility API.
I browsed the accessibility page for KDE but could not get any
relevant information.
I had already posted henric on this issue. this is a bit urgent
because I am doing a
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