Hi, I have done the following and am using karmic without any hassles. in fact it's better than previous distros as far as responsiveness is concerned: #apt-get install alsa-oss #apt-get purge pulseaudio. Thanks, Aruni.
On 12/11/2009 12:49 PM, 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<[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
