Hi all, That's wonderful! We need all the help we can get. Right now Luke is doing most of the work. :(
At this moment I am trying out various mainline kernels to get a glitch-free audio. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/479375 Somehow I haven't given up on Pulseaudio yet, we can try to get the performance on par with alsa/oss driver. Cheers --arky Rakesh 'arky' Ambati| IT Consultant| http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | Blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bill Cox <[email protected]> > To: Isaac Porat <[email protected]> > Cc: Arky <[email protected]>; Josh <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 11 December, 2009 7:37:04 PM > Subject: Re: orca out of the box > > Hi, Arki, and thanks for working on the bugs. I think there are a few > of us who would like to help get Orca working well in Lucid. I've > installed alpha1, and have run into the pyatspi bug you know about. > Any help getting Orca working well is appreciated. I'm comfortable > debugging C code, but I don't understand the whole D-bus/atspi/COBRA > stuff at all, or even if that's where the bug lies. > > Another issue with continues to be pulseaudio. Disabling it with the > .pulse_a11y_nostart hack leads to far superior audio performance. Do > you think we have time to fix the pulseaudio problems for Lucid, or > should we focus on making the accessibility install with pulseaudio > disabled less buggy and more usable? I'd like to help track down bugs > in Lucid related to accessibility from now until the April release. > > Thanks, > Bill > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Isaac Porat wrote: > > 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 > > 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 > > . > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
