Re: iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-12 Thread Isaac Porat
wrote: On 06/07/2011 03:36 AM, Isaac Porat wrote: Hi I was asking the same question a couple of years ago. My understanding after looking a bit into the issue is that IBM consulted at the time key people in accessibility in Linux (there still some minutes of these meetings) to make both

Re: iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-06 Thread Isaac Porat
Hi I was asking the same question a couple of years ago. My understanding after looking a bit into the issue is that IBM consulted at the time key people in accessibility in Linux (there still some minutes of these meetings) to make both interfaces as close as possible which as indicated it

[Bug 586373] Re: Startup Disk Creator locks up Orca screen reader

2010-05-27 Thread Isaac Porat
This bug is confirmed and happens every time the accessibility profile is running. Thanks. Isaac Porat. -- Startup Disk Creator locks up Orca screen reader https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

Re: [Bug 563061] Re: computer janitor crashes with accessibility profile enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Isaac Porat
Hi Barry, I am involved in Vinux A distro which is in its current version 3.0 essentially an enhanced Lucid for the blind. your latest CJ is now available to install for Vinux users and a number of people reported already that it works well. If I hear of any problems I shall let you know.

Re: [Bug 563061] Re: computer janitor crashes with accessibility profile enabled

2010-05-24 Thread Isaac Porat
Hi Barry My preliminary test shows that computer-janitor-gtk works well now - thank you. Note that my system is fairly new so no much junk to remove. Also I rely on speech only using Orca the screen reader will ask somebody else to test and will report again. When is this package likely to be

[Bug 563061] [NEW] computer janitor crashes with accessibility profile enabled

2010-04-14 Thread Isaac Porat
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: computer-janitor To reproduce the bug make sure that the accessibility profile is enabled and then in the terminal type: sudo computer-janitor-gtk Computer janitor crashes immediately. Joanmarie Diggs, a main Orca developer looked at the problem and

[Bug 563061] Re: computer janitor crashes with accessibility profile enabled

2010-04-14 Thread Isaac Porat
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44154165/Dependencies.txt -- computer janitor crashes with accessibility profile enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563061 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

RE: orca out of the box

2009-12-10 Thread Isaac Porat
Hello Arki and all Your reply implies that all is well, in fact those who tried speech with Karmic knows that it is for all practical purposes unusable. It is my impression that even geeks can't get it to work reliably PulseAudio is too deeply embedded into the system and it seems that those

RE: How's Karmic these days?

2009-10-23 Thread Isaac Porat
Hello I know that this is already old news but perhaps to keep it all in perspective, I have started to use 9.04 recently and impressed by the progress since 8.10 which I used before. OK it did not work for me out of the box (using wubi) but with a number of simple configurations everything is