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 looking after audio in Canonical never considered the impact of this on the blind community. There is a bold statement about accessibility on Ubuntu's website but it seems to have no roots in reality at least with Karmic.
Jaunty had at least a clean way to remove PulseAudio and in fact it is the first distro I can use as a blind person productively - thanks to all concerned. Karmic is completely the other way - unusable. Yes I am aware of the various tweaks with limited effect and completely unworkable for the typical blind Windows or Mac user looking for an alternative. http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuKarmic When Karmic was released I thought this problem was a glitch, an oversight which will be sorted out; there are no visible sighnes of this yet, at least nothing that the blind community is aware of. Regards Isaac -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arky Sent: 11 December 2009 05:30 To: Josh; [email protected] Subject: Re: orca out of the box Hi Josh, Ubuntu LiveCD has an accessibility mode that enables blind users to use Orca screen reader and magnifier. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/#Starting%20Orca%20on%20the% 20Live%20CD Cheers --arky Rakesh 'arky' Ambati| IT Consultant| http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | Blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com From: Josh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 11 December, 2009 6:40:12 AM Subject: orca out of the box Hi, I think in the next release when ubuntu live cd/dvd starts up it should detect the sound card then say: if you're blind do this to start the live cd with orca and dothat to start the installer with orca. make it more like the mac with voiceover kind of. Josh My email address is: [email protected] . www.satogo.com Get klango at www.klango.net it's free! Get NVDA www.nvda-project.org it's free! Grab Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com it's free! and www.twitter.com/jkenn337 follow-me-on-twitter. ________________________________ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/> . -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
