Hi Daniel,
I'll try to answer some questions, but first I've some questions.
What version of ubuntu are you running?
Are you running unity 2d or unity 3d?
See my answers below your questions.
1. How do I see the list of all my applications? I press the windows key
and then attempt to arrow around, but this does not work. I read that
this is the method to view the entire application list with unity...
So how to do this with orca?
The win key or the alt+f1 is used to see the list of the prefered
applications or the running applications.
I never found how to se all applications using unity 2d.
Also, on a bit of a side note, what is a better choice from an
accessibility point of view, gnome-shell or unity? Is there some reason
why unity is the default on ubuntu?
Personally I prefer gnome-shell, but canonical decided to adopt unity as
the default.
2. In Some applications are not working quite right. In Libreoffice calc
when I use the arrow keys to navigate the spread sheet I do not get any
spoken feedback from orca.
Also in both writer and calc (possibly other apps, but that's all I've
tested so far) I can not access the menu bar by using alt or alt+f.
Is there a solution to this one?
Did you try the f10 key to access the menu bar?
3. I've just installed emacspeak from source on ubuntu, using
espeak. When I run emacspeak with espeak I experience regular crashes on
average one every few minutes.
Obviously this is quite annoying, so I was hoping there might be a fix
around.
I'm also experiencing almost identical problem on debian, but my best
solution so far is to revert back to alsa. Is this also the best
solution for ubuntu?
I can not say about this topic, but I think that it is not so easy
revert to alsa in ubuntu.
I'm presuming this will also be an issue when I get around to installing
speakup, as it was on debian also.
4. My final problem: I'm attempting to build and install speakup as
kernel modules.
First I tried installing module-assistant and doing the following as
root:
m-a prepare
m-a a-i speakup
The build process failed though. Is my best option for now to build the
modules from source out of git?
you do not need build speakup in ubuntu because there is a package.
sudo apt-get install speakup espeakup
This will generate some errors but you can ignore them.
The problem is that you can not use speakup and the gui environment
using the same login.
What I do in general is to login in the console as root and su - my real
login.
If anyone can help with any of this I'd grately appreciate it.
I hope this can help in some way.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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