Re: [BRLTTY] new listmember with a question

2016-05-19 Thread Mario Lang
Mark Peveto writes: > I'm trying to get brltty to function in a console as a screen reader > using espeakup. > I haven't found a lot of information that's been helpful, so thought > I'd check here. What is your particular problem? According to your tense description above, I am guessing you wa

Re: [BRLTTY] new listmember with a question

2016-05-19 Thread Mark Peveto
Yes, tha'ts right. I'm using a version of linux that doesn't seem to have console speech by default, and I need my console to speak. Drives me nuts not having access to it. *grin* Mark Peveto On Thu, 19 May 2016, Mario Lang wrote: > Mark Peveto writes: > > > I'm trying to get brltty to func

Re: [BRLTTY] new listmember with a question

2016-05-19 Thread kendell clark
hi This is precisely why I've been trying so hard to get brltty to speak on sonar. Instead of helping me fix it, the pulse audio people act like children, insisting it's not their bug. I did get luke yelavich, the guy in charge of accessibility at canonical to agree to fix this, but it involves cha

Re: [BRLTTY] new listmember with a question

2016-05-19 Thread Rob
kendell clark wrote: Instead of helping me fix it, the pulse audio people act like children, insisting it's not their bug. Can't you still run desktops like XFCE and Mate without Pulse Audio? Or Isn't there a way to have pulse called ona per application basis? ___

Re: [BRLTTY] new listmember with a question

2016-05-19 Thread kendell clark
hi You can run some desktops without pulse audio. But doing so ... I'm not sure how to politely put this, but it takes out a lot of what makes sound convenient on linux. Without pulse audio, you can no longer control apps volume, switch to newly connected sound devices, and so on. If I did that I'

Re: [BRLTTY] Two bugs: Long key presses in BrlAPI; and AtSpi2 screen driver

2016-05-19 Thread Aura Kelloniemi
Samuel Thibault writes: > Aura Kelloniemi, on Tue 17 May 2016 15:25:43 +0300, wrote: > > 1. Commands bound to long key presses don't work in BrlAPI; they just don't > > get triggered. > I have to say I don't know what these are. Long key presses of a braille display key can trigger a differ