Re: Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-08 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi Devin, Sorry for advertisment in advance, but: > I would definitely recommend the Mac. You’ll still be able to run free software, in an environment like > Unix. Optionally, if you use the command line, check out https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr Hypra mach

Re: Full syslog

2019-02-24 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
om/in/jean-philippe-mengual-800133135> Le 28/01/2019 à 15:58, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe a écrit : Hi Here is my syslog: http://demo.accelibreinfo.eu/syslog Everything is there:  at-spi seems very unhappy with my use of brltty and the terminal. The problem is that my log is 400MB in 2 hours lol A s

Full syslog

2019-01-28 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi Here is my syslog: http://demo.accelibreinfo.eu/syslog Everything is there:  at-spi seems very unhappy with my use of brltty and the terminal. The problem is that my log is 400MB in 2 hours lol A solution? A bug I should report? Regards -- signature_jp_2 Logo Hypra JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGU

Fwd: Bug912753: orca-sops: Initialization impossible as normal user

2018-11-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Maybe people will be interested here too Regards signature_jp_2 Logo Hypra JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ 102, rue des poissonniers, 75018, Paris Tel : +331 84 73 06 61 Mob : +336 76 34 93 37 jpmeng...@hypra.fr www.hypra.fr

Re: Various X problems

2018-08-14 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 15/08/2018 à 00:48, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, le mer. 15 août 2018 00:19:27 +0200, a ecrit: >>>> Finally, maybe it is related, I use this script to make my screen black >>>> and my >>>> screen no longer becomes black.

Re: Various X problems

2018-08-14 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Le 14/08/2018 à 22:10, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, le sam. 11 août 2018 13:18:22 +0200, a ecrit: >> When I use the cut-and-paste command of brltty, it works all right, but >> randomly and for whatever reason, X crashes. I pasted the

Various X problems

2018-08-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, On Buster, I use brltty in a terminal, mate-terminal. I use screen in this terminal. Here is the command I run: brltty -b ba -x a2 -X type=term --release-device When I use the cut-and-paste command of brltty, it works all right, but randomly and for whatever reason, X crashes. I pasted the lo

Re: Evince, again not accessible?

2018-02-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
> > I'm wondering: could you check with a sighted person what is happening? > I have never used F7 in my evince, and it requests a confirmation before > enabling it, maybe you just don't see that? I see the dialog, yes, and I press OK through shift-tab. It has appeared for a long time and the pro

Evince, again not accessible?

2018-02-02 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Few time ago, a new evince release was uploaded in testing. So far text PDF were accessible again (after a tim they were not readable at all). With this new release, they are again not accessible. Should I fill a bug? Reproducing is simple: open Evince, press f7, accept to enable the browse mo

Re: Accessibility of dpkg using espeakup

2017-12-18 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I am not sure I understand your point. What is not accessible for you? If you mean default choice, it is in uppercase, so a tts can see it. What additional feature would you like? Regards signature_jp_2 Logo Hypra JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ 102, rue des poisson

Re: It is time for me to depart.

2017-11-20 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I am very happy to see speech-dispatcher maintained after this sad news of Luke's departure. Hypra will try helping as much as possible too. Just we recommend to inform the wide community when the migration to Github is effective, so that there is a large communicatin about it, as it is the b

Re: Evince problem

2017-10-12 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
accessible again, even if not perfect at all. So far they were not rendered at all in browse mode. Thanks. regards, Le 13/10/2017 à 00:15, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on mer. 13 sept. 2017 20:11:15 +0200, wrote: >> Am I alone not being able to view

Re: gnome-orca version policy?

2017-09-16 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Thanks. Due to pinnong I can use Orca 3.26 in testing, I have installed for some minutes. So far it works all right. Best regards, Le 16/09/2017 à 12:45, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Paul Gevers wrote: >> On 02-09-17 21:05, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >>> I am now a DD so

Evince problem

2017-09-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Am I alone not being able to view pdf with Evine (Buster, Evince 3.25.92, gnome-orca 3.24)? I issue f7 to enable browse mode, but still see nothing, in a PDF which is not an image (converted successfully with pdftotext). Thanks for any feedback. Regards, -- signature_jp_2 Logo Hypra

Re: gnome-orca version policy?

2017-09-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Many thanks Paul, that is an excellent news. Best regards, Le 03/09/2017 à 07:55, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi Jean-Philippe, > > On 03-09-17 01:37, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> Actually it is a kind of strategical choice, depending mainly on the >> time you / we have t

Re: gnome-orca version policy?

2017-09-02 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Actually it is a kind of strategical choice, depending mainly on the time you / we have to package and how the package is complex to update. Either we focus on GNOME releases, so we will release Orca 3.24 (done), 3.26, etc. To be sure to stay relevant with the GNOME and GTK stack. Or, soluti

Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-08-25 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Thanks. If Paul or Sam want to complete the wiki with this, ti would be nice as I am afraid creating mess doing myself, I dont know present things and missing things. BTW: a bugreport will be done soon as daisy-player seems to be unusable now. Regards Le 25/08/2017 à 16:36, chrys a écrit : >

Re : Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-08-25 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Thanks Paul for your feedback. Let's wait for Chrys' feedback. Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://www.hypra.fr - Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi, > > Thanks for letting us know. > > On 08/25/17 13:32, ch...@linux-a

Re : Re: Re : Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-08-25 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Thanks, I had mispelled the name. I add as soon as we have source from Chrys for each project. Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://www.hypra.fr - Samuel Thibault a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on ven.

Re : Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-08-25 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
bian.org/accessibility I will do if no one does it but I dont know where is the todo exactly. Chrys: can you give us the source URL? > more stuff is comming ;) Thanks for all this work. > cheers chrys > > Zitat von MENGUAL Jean-Philippe : > > > Morally speaking, Debian is

Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-08-24 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Morally speaking, Debian is simply the most accessible distro today. So it is an example in itself. And it is the only distro where in decisionsal processes, accessibility is considered as a matter (eg choice of desktop environment). Ubuntu stopped specific devs in accessibility, Fedora is not real

Re: X crashes at Firefox runtime

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 24/08/2017 à 00:05, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on mer. 23 août 2017 23:40:18 +0200, wrote: >> X.log: > > It'd be useful to have the full X.log http://paste.debian.net/982794 >> [1917118.356] compiled for 1.19.0, module

X crashes at Firefox runtime

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Here is a scenario I am experiencing and hard to debug (in testing) : 1. Open a tty and run screen in it 2. Open an X session with MATE. For the example, I have Thunderbird running. 3. Run Firefox (here, I alt-f1, Internet, Firefox) 4. While Firefox is loading (it takes a while), go to th

Bug#872299: gnome-orca: Orca segfaults on startup

2017-08-15 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Whats your desktop environment? What Debian (buster or stretch)? How did you upgrade to orca 3.24? Regards, Le 16/08/2017 à 01:06, Tim Smith a écrit : > Subject: gnome-orca: Orca segfaults on startup > Package: gnome-orca > Version: 3.24.0-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > >

Bug#757636: Re : Bug#757636: gnome-orca: Additional info

2017-08-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Actually it depends on the application you use. The behavior I describe mainly happens in Firefox. But may happen in Libreoffice as well. cf https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2017-June/msg00089.html Regards, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61

Bug#758434: Re : Bug#758434: Re : Re: Bug#758434: Re : Bug#870366: libreoffice-writer: Comment text not accessible with screen reader

2017-08-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
- Samuel Thibault a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on jeu. 03 août 2017 10:47:23 +0200, wrote: > > Ok I understand. But then, how is it possible to tie link, gather, merge > > them?, > > Again, are these actually the same bug? If so, yes, they must be merged. > O

Bug#758434: Re : Re: Bug#758434: Re : Bug#870366: libreoffice-writer: Comment text not accessible with screen reader

2017-08-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
rit : > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on mar. 01 août 2017 15:26:16 +0200, wrote: > >> I had submitted a similar bug related to gnome-orca: > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758434 > >> > >> When I did we did not have explanations about origin of the b

Bug#758434: Re : Bug#870366: libreoffice-writer: Comment text not accessible with screen reader

2017-08-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I had submitted a similar bug related to gnome-orca: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758434 When I did we did not have explanations about origin of the bug, etc. Maybe we should merge them, or close the gnome-orca one, or reaffect orca ont to it? Best regards Jean-Phili

Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-07-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Of course, it is possible. Just change jessie to testing in you sources.list and apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade Be careful: it may be long as many packages will be updated, and it may cause some little problems if you have a twickde system, but it should go fine, I tried on a new

Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-07-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
ok I will study that. Actually it concerns bugs present on GNOME2, eg. related to panel or alt-f2 behavior. Of course, everything has been changed since this time. I will try to have a thought about it. Regares Le 29/07/2017 à 09:33, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on

Re: Debian accessibility news

2017-07-28 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, thanks for these news. About tags: I started with sorting my bugreports and sii you have already tagged most of them. I also saw that some of them are old and likely deprecated. Still true, but no longer relevant with newest releases of packages. Should I close them, or let them opened for

Re: Russian voice for Linux other than Espeak ?

2017-07-22 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 23/07/2017 à 01:07, Pierre Lorenzon a écrit : > From: Alex ARNAUD > Subject: Russian voice for Linux other than Espeak ? > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:00:16 +0200 > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm looking for a speech synthesis for a blind friend who needs >> to read Russian. I know that Espeak provide

Re: GNOME 3.24 a11y updates

2017-06-26 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
I think you can upload, and power users will test in sid and testing. For Orca, no problem so far, I thinks you can remove the block soon. regards Le 26/06/2017 à 20:54, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi all, > > On 06/25/17 16:07, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> With Samuel's permission, I updated the packag

Re: Updating gnome-orca to version 3.24

2017-06-25 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi Paul, Le 25/06/2017 à 14:16, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi all, > > On 06/19/17 20:57, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> Actually I think he will not do the work for various reasons personal we >> saw on the irc. And now the dev process is active again, could someone >&g

Re: Updating gnome-orca to version 3.24

2017-06-24 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Great! Many thanks for your help Paul Cheers Le 24/06/2017 à 22:20, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi, > > On 06/19/17 20:57, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> could someone handle this travial task? > If nobody beats me to it, I'll probably do this within a co

Re: Updating gnome-orca to version 3.24

2017-06-19 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
, all the more as MATE 1.18 is about releasing. I will have a look on edbrowse to update it as reported few time ago. Thanks Best regards Le 02/04/2017 à 23:08, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe a écrit : > Hi, > > I think it's a good point to begin packaging, indeed. And given th

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-04-30 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
problems, sometimes the screen reader doesn't start, etc. If it can help to 9ork: http://hypra.fr/Developpement-72.html?lang=en The iso is downloadable here. Regards, > > -- Logo Hypra Photo Jean-Philippe MENGUAL *JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL** DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ* adresse

Re : new edbrowse

2017-04-20 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Thanks for the info, I had not it. Yes we will package it for Debian 10. Could you report a bug to edbrowse please, in order to keep archive of this? Regards, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://www.hypra.fr --

Bug#859926: speechd-up: fails to install

2017-04-19 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
s > functionality. For now, all I know is that it appeared to have > successfully, initially installed with no complaints (via "apt-get > install speechd-up"). > > Another factor in my install attempt is that mine was a brand new > install. There was no residual "clutter

Bug#859926: speechd-up: fails to install

2017-04-17 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
; is actually using yet. This is all new to me. > > Paul > -- Logo Hypra Photo Jean-Philippe MENGUAL *JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL** DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ* adresse84, quai de Jemappes, 75010, Paris téléphone+331 84 71 06 61 courieljpmeng...@hypra.fr site webwww.hypra.fr Fa

Re: orca and iceweasel

2017-04-06 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Anyway on Firefox-esr, seems to display properly. Regards, Le 06/04/2017 à 09:41, mattias jonsson a écrit : > can anyone confirm this? > 1 launch iceweasel / firefox > try to do a google search > > the results are not shown as headers > > > -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ens

Re: Updating gnome-orca to version 3.24

2017-04-02 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I think it's a good point to begin packaging, indeed. And given that Debian is working on stable, no hurry, you've time to learn, propose patch, be fixed, etc. So I think it's a good idea. If noone replies differently, I think you can start this way this week. I'll try helping you for basics.

Re: speech-enabled expert/rescue/autoinstall keyboard shortcuts

2017-03-21 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
And what about affecting shift-s or ctrl-s to run tts in the rescue mode? Doesn't seem so hard for user, and avoids to change further. And easy to remebrer as related to original "s" used today. But is it possible to set multikexs bindings? Le 22/03/2017 à 01:40, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello

Re: Bug#852149: Re : Re: Firefox-ESR Crash in Stretch when exiting Browser with Orca running

2017-03-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Frankly I don't understand anything in Mozilla bugzilla. Could you please give me a link to the patch, so that I try building firefox-esr again? Or a link to a built package? Many thanks Regards, Le 02/03/2017 à 00:32, Mike Hommey a écrit : > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 12:14:50AM +0100, Alex

Re: Bug#852149: Re : Re: Firefox-ESR Crash in Stretch when exiting Browser with Orca running

2017-03-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
8AM +0100, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Frankly I don't understand anything in Mozilla bugzilla. Could you >> please give me a link to the patch, so that I try building firefox-esr >> again? Or a link to a built package? > > The second link is the

Re: Bug#852149: Re : Re: Firefox-ESR Crash in Stretch when exiting Browser with Orca running

2017-03-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Oh sorry, thanks. I understand better why I didn't understand what I read. I'll try to download it. Regards, Le 02/03/2017 à 01:30, Mike Hommey a écrit : > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:13:48AM +0100, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Frankly I don't und

Re : Re: Firefox-ESR Crash in Stretch when exiting Browser with Orca running

2017-03-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I have reported this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852149 You should then reply to this bug. I know I submitted in it two kinds of problems, but we easily can focus on the crash. I am not sure I precised I use Orca, could be useful to mention, indeed. Regards Jean-P

Re: Debian Installer Stretch RC 2 release

2017-02-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Important to test, as latest tests seemed to show that once !estarted after an accessible installation, the speech (Orca) doesn't seem to run. Don't know yet why, if espeak-ng fixes things or so on, but it's a point we need to keep in mind to test. I'll request tests to Hypra staff and our fri

Re: x server crashes

2016-12-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Seems to match with: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98464 Can you help tracing your crash and, thus, they will accept the patch submitted by Samuel? Otherwise I will try myself as well. Regards, Le 13/12/2016 à 18:59, Sebastian Humenda a écrit : > Hi Keith > > Keith Barrett

Re: orca on debian stretch testing

2016-12-07 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Can you remind me the panel problem? What desktop do xou use and what Orca release do you use. On testing here, I don't experience your problem. Do you use a braille display? Best regards, Le 08/12/2016 à 02:11, Jude DaShiell a écrit : > In addition to the problem I have with panels accessi

Re: Has someone tried Chromium

2016-11-27 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 28/11/2016 à 01:18, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on Sun 27 Nov 2016 03:07:31 +0100, wrote: >> But I'd like to know how we could implement chromevox. > > I guess you mean package it? Well, I guess there are ways to package > chromium plugins,

Re: Has someone tried Chromium

2016-11-27 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
chromevox is > ready if it works. Nothing. After 2 wait minutes. Have you success on Debian? Can I purchase what happens? Thanks, > I hope this helps. > On Sun, 27 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:07:31 >> From: MENGUAL Jean-Philipp

Re: Has someone tried Chromium

2016-11-26 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 27/11/2016 à 03:06, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on Sat 26 Nov 2016 05:29:39 +0100, wrote: >> Has someone tried Chromium on Debian? Here, Orca cannot speak inside. I >> hoped to have chromevox from anyway, but no. Do you know how we could

Has someone tried Chromium

2016-11-25 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Has someone tried Chromium on Debian? Here, Orca cannot speak inside. I hoped to have chromevox from anyway, but no. Do you know how we could implement this in Debian? I don't know if it's interct^jng, but I guess it may be. At least I'd like to test. Regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYP

Re: mate

2016-10-16 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Sae https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#MATE Le 17/10/2016 à 03:25, mattias a écrit : > if i install mate via apt in debian jessie > > you can launch orca but after it you cant do anything.. > > how to solve? > > -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61

Re: Virt-manager and accesibility

2016-10-16 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
With qemu, if you run a system with -curses and the guest is not GUI, you may access to it directly from the host (eg. Linux in CLI, Freddos). Regards, Le 17/10/2016 à 01:49, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > Odd Martin Baanrud, on Mon 17 Oct 2016 01:43:14 +0200, wrote: >> According to the

Re: eutp

2016-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
ok. Do you want a bugreport? Le 23/08/2016 à 21:40, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on Sat 20 Aug 2016 13:15:00 +0200, wrote: >> I'm wondering 9hy eutp tool is not installed with brltty in Debian. > > Simply nobody thought about

Re: eutp

2016-08-20 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 20/08/2016 à 18:18, Shérab a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe (2016/08/20 13:15 +0200): >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering 9hy eutp tool is not installed with brltty in Debian. >> Would requiera a separate package? It's very convinient to backup the >> Eurob

eutp

2016-08-20 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I'm wondering 9hy eutp tool is not installed with brltty in Debian. Would requiera a separate package? It's very convinient to backup the Eurobraille displays. Thanks Shérab for the code! Regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hyp

Re: mate desktop area not accessible after testing last update?

2016-06-05 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Thanks for report. Yes, I confirm the problem. I don't know wether the problem is upstream, or due to the fact Debian maintainers haven't finished packaging. But given that mate 1.14 had other problems with applets, I suspect it's upstream. I've just reported here: https://github.com/mate-des

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-22 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I precise I'm ready to think with GNOME of way to help for face-to-face tests, regression tests, writing docs. But it implies a willing, a true choice, and time. So ... to be discussed. Regards, Le 22/05/2016 22:33, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Mario Lang, on Sun 22 May 2016 21:56:00 +0200,

Re: Emacspeak 44 In Debian

2016-05-22 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Thanks for this great summary. Just a question: why would one user choose Emacspeak instead of speech-el? My purpose is really not to troll, jut to know both utilities exist and seem maintained. Regards, Le 22/05/2016 21:54, raman a écrit : > SGTM. > > The end-state we need to achieve with

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-22 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, (sorry, very long mail, but useful to argue and discuss on concrete matters) Thanks Samuel and Michael for your feedbacks. I defend the choice of MATE by default in Debian. I'll try to explain why, and I'm ready to read any reply, test things relying on such replies, and make my thought chang

Re: Heads up: PulseAudio mutes when you reconnect your line cable

2016-04-28 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, This bug is known, unfortunately. Reported: http://bugs.debian.org/813423. Reported upstream. Maybe some comments on it would help. Regards, Le 28/04/2016 09:34, Mario Lang a écrit : > Hi. > > The subject says it all: PulseAudio apparently mutes audio when you > reconnect a line jack. *

Re: OCR

2016-04-28 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
camera module > having a program that could snap the image then run the OCR engine then > read and save the text into a text file of course keeping the image. If > tools already exist for the console to do the OCR I would like to know > about them. Nick Gawronski > > On 4/27/20

OCR

2016-04-27 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, After test of various OCR, I feel that Tesseract, the most advanced OCR engine on Linux, hasn't noawadays all ways to be as performant as commercial utilities. Even if it's wrapped in some tools like Lios or gimagereader, the performance is still difficult to use for "basic" users (I mean, the

Re: BrailleSense

2015-12-16 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Heres first the brltty log: http://srunge.us/KCjH lsusb doesn't display any ID. I precise: BrailleSense U2. Here's the log syslog when I plug in the hardware: http://sprunge.us/YVVf Cheers, Le 13/12/2015 19:48, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Hello, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on

BrailleSense

2015-12-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I've just tested a BrailleSense from Hims in Debian stable. I had a strange result: it seems not recognizing what hardware is, and uses a usb generic driver. So of course, brltty cannot work with it. Is that a known problem? Are such things updated in Debian stable (I guess USB libs, or u

Re: iceweasel not accessible?

2015-12-12 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Samuel, wouldn't Accerciser help? To see what happens? How would it be possib;e to have relevant logs? Moreover, Michel, could you send what displays orca --debug (the debug file .out) when entering on Iceweasel? Regards, Le 12/12/2015 13:16, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe a écrit : Hi, He

Re: iceweasel not accessible?

2015-12-12 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Here no mroblem in Stretch. However it frequently happens, in stable, that Mozilla accessibility disappears. So far the only solution we have is re-install, but we're searching for a solution. So xour problem is interesting. What happens if you run Iceweasel in a g!aphical terminal? Is t

Re: Iceweasel history

2015-12-06 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
hmmm... I had read a tutorial which mentioned it was possible. But maybe it was an old feature... Weird... Le 07/12/2015 08:14, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : On 07/12/2015 08:09, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: hmm but this checkbox appears regardless the choice you do in combo box. It is not specific

Re: Iceweasel history

2015-12-06 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 07/12/2015 08:04, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : > On 07/12/2015 07:53, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> >> >> Le 07/12/2015 07:38, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : >> > On 07/12/2015 06:46, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> >> I use 38.2 (testing). How do you choose th

Re: Iceweasel history

2015-12-06 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 07/12/2015 07:38, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : > On 07/12/2015 06:46, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> I use 38.2 (testing). How do you choose the item? With mouse? >> keyboard? Do you use Orca? > I use Iceweasel 42 and I can change the settings without any problem. I > choose t

Re: Iceweasel history

2015-12-06 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Le 07/12/2015 02:14, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 23:37:16 +0100 > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I try to set the history duration of Iceweasel, so that it just keeps >> last month (it's an example). But do you manage to

Iceweasel history

2015-12-06 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I try to set the history duration of Iceweasel, so that it just keeps last month (it's an example). But do you manage to do this? Here, I get: 1. Open Edit menu 2. Preferences menu 3. In the tab Privacy, a combo box "How to keep the history". 3 choices: keep the history, not keep, or keep

Fwd: Bug#806110: speech-tools: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

2015-11-24 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
FYI I'll try to investigate. Regards Message transféré Sujet : Bug#806110: speech-tools: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory) Date de renvoi : Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:35:30 + De (renvoi) : Santiago Vila Pour (renvoi) : debian-bugs-d...@l

Survey about screen reader

2015-11-14 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, As announced on Hypra newsletter, we studied the differences between typical screen readers (NVDA, JAWS) and Orca, to identify missing features. We found 50 features. Now I wonder what 9ould be the priority in a development (in parallel to fixing bugs we identified too on MATE): what fea

Re: About Hypra project

2015-11-04 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Le 04/11/2015 15:56, Mario Lang a écrit : MENGUAL Jean-Philippe writes: For next month, we will release a full list of features we found in Jaws, NVDA, ZoomText and SuperNova and not present in Orca and Linux, so that users could tell us whet should be prioritary to be developped. On

About Hypra project

2015-11-02 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, At DebConf 15 I had introduced the Hypra project to Mario and during a lightning Talk. I had talked about our main dev work: Universally Accessible System. Now we have a translated website, I think it's nice to show you: http://hypra.fr/?-Home-17-&lang=en Because we will work with Debian

Problems with a PDF

2015-10-12 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I'm trying to read an European law, and for the 1st time I cannot. It's a pdf file. It's he!e: http://demo.accelibreinfo.eu/remit.pdf 1. I tried pdftotext 2. I opened with Evince then Atril, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-v in gedit/pluma. Without understanding the language, you easily will see tha

Bug#797348: ebook-speaker: Segfault if no epub in the directory

2015-08-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 30/08/2015 03:06, Samuel Thibault a écrit : MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, le Sun 30 Aug 2015 02:37:46 +0200, a écrit : Le 30/08/2015 02:23, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 21:43:29 +0200, a écrit : 3. cd in a directory containing not .epub files. 4. Re-run

Bug#797348: ebook-speaker: Segfault if no epub in the directory

2015-08-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Le 30/08/2015 02:23, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 21:43:29 +0200, a écrit : 3. cd in a directory containing not .epub files. 4. Re-run ebook-speaker * What was the outcome of this action? Segfault I can't reproduce this. What do you *have* in the dir

ebook speaker

2015-08-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I'm testing this program and I've a problem. The device in output, hw:0, is invalid. What value should I replace with? No value works between hw:1,w 1,1, 0,1 0,0, etc. An idea how to feel this field in the conf file? So far I just get "Invalid argument". Regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGU

Re: Add a package to a liveCD?

2015-08-17 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Figure out that in most cases, Orca is installed, brltty too. So it's easy to add a binding to run orca by default. It's what we do in our customized Debian anyway. That's why I proposed to add brltty to liveCD, then we can deal /ith a shortcut to enable or not a11y for MATE, to run Orca on Gno

Re : Re: Add a package to a liveCD?

2015-08-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
- Samuel Thibault a écrit : > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, le Thu 13 Aug 2015 15:50:05 +0200, a écrit : > > > > b) Including enabling of accessibility in the tasksel seems a problem. > > > > First because it implies changing several ones, while the stuff is > >

Re: Add a package to a liveCD?

2015-08-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
> > > b) Including enabling of accessibility in the tasksel seems a problem. > > First because it implies changing several ones, while the stuff is > > transversal. > > The end-of-time goal is that it is transversal. But ATM it is completely > useless to enable it on desktop where it will just

Re : Re: Add a package to a liveCD?

2015-08-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi Happy with talking about this at the next debconf. I have two points: a) BRLTTY cannot be shipped in a specific tasksel, as it covers the accessibility of all the distro (DE, tty, d-i, etc). So we should maybe see how it was shipped in the d-i to apply to livecd. b) Including enabling of ac

Re: Add a package to a liveCD?

2015-08-13 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
nation. -Original Message- From: Richard Owlett [mailto:rowl...@cloud85.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:34 PM To: debian-l...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Add a package to a liveCD? MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, Is it possible, in a stable ;iveCD, adding a missing package fr

LiveCD accessible?

2015-08-12 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Has someone tried the MATE livecd? Is it accessible? I mean, does MATE work, is Orca present? What about brltty? Thanks for feedbacks. Regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://hypra.fr

Re: testing: lightdm

2015-08-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Here's my .xsession-errors with mate-desktop 1.10. Note that the bug is somewhat random but happens often. Regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://hypra.fr Xsession: X session started for jp at mardi

Re: Still a TTS test

2015-08-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, When I set AudioOutputMethod "libao", here's what I get in speech-dispatcher.log: libao-common and alsa-oss are installed on my system. Regards, Le 11/08/2015 08:00, erwin a écrit : Le Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:06:54 +0200 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe écrivait: Hi, After my sur

Still a TTS test

2015-08-10 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, After my surprising success with espeak-mbrola, I try to run mbrola through cicero or festival. Other ideas of tts? Is it a better quality? With Cicero, after uncomment the AddModule line in speechd.conf, here's what says cicero.log: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ci

Testing: lightdm

2015-08-05 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Just to say I've just have problems on testing to have Orca started. While it works with startx, through lightdm no. Because the a11y bus doesn't start. Once everything is started, I see that lightdm as its a11y bus still running, whereas MATE doesn't have. I try running manually: DISPLAY

speech-dispatcher

2015-08-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, 1. Why speech-dispatcher-contrib is named just like this? Are there ot:er modules as pico? Otherwise, wouldn't me more simple saying speech-dispatcher-pico? 2. It depends on pulseaudio. Is it mandatory? I just use alsa. I know alsa+pico can work if we hale some package (Luke, if you rememb

Re: Creating Compiz group

2015-07-30 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, While pulling compiz regularly from upstream http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz-team/compiz/0.9.12/ , I still have a few lines of local patches concerning the default configuration and build dependencies for Debian, plus a bugfix for mouse cursor visibility which hasn't made it into the

Re: Bug#722451: Creating Compiz group

2015-07-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Oops actually Samuel created a git repo and svn one, that was an excellent idea. I think you'll prefer git. Furthermore, if you want a mailing list, tell us, we can create it. Regards, Le 30/07/2015 01:28, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe a écrit : Hi, Actually I hoped submitting the package to

Creating Compiz group

2015-07-29 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Actually I hoped submitting the package to a11y team could speed up the upload, but lack of time prevents this. So as requested by Stephen, we've just created a Compiz packaging team, so that: 1. Ubuntu, Knoppix and Debian have a synchronized packaging policy of this package 2. Upstream d

Debconf

2015-07-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Actually I am convinced that Debconf can be a great time to meet and interact with the Debian community, even if I'm not a dev. So I subscribed, and I'm glad to know I'll find Samuel, Cyril and Mario and other people I don't meet often. Besides, as Hypra team wants to contribute to Debia

Re : Re: Re : Re: Virtual Braille terminal? Brltty and lightdm

2015-04-21 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
> > It was dropped deliberately because the Orca preferences dialog is for > options for users; not debugging tools for sighted developers. :) It is a pitty I think. Because this feature is really convinient when we do some shows (demo) during meetings. And it can be useful for people who want t

Re : Re: Virtual Braille terminal? Brltty and lightdm

2015-04-21 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
> > You can either > > - enable the braille monitor in Orca How do you do that? this feature seems not exist anymore in my preferences dialog Regards > - or use the xw driver of brltty, but that'll require another X display. > - for debian installer debugging, I run the tested environment

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