Improving the way orc in lightdm is started in Debian

2020-07-15 Thread thomasw
lightdm-gtk-greeter now has an official method to start it. I think using this in Debian could have some benefits because it would allow blind users to start and stop the screen reader regardless of whether it was enabled a install time. From what I can tell, the first change that would need to

Re: a11y of lxqt

2019-11-13 Thread thomasw
I just tried it. I logged in and couldn't get Orca to start. Some dialog was on the screen about choosing a window manager by default. Maybe if you get past that, you can start Orca. I thought OpenBox was the default Window Manager but I guess they let you choose. Ubuntu documentation on a quick

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-08 Thread thomasw
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, at 3:21 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > 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 > > It isn’t as powerful as Fenrir or Spe

Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-07 Thread thomasw
Hi, I have followed the discussion on the orca list lately and the conflicts around GTK 4 accessibility. I guess without getting into the drama of it all, I would just like to ask those who are knowledgeable if they think we will have Linux accessibility going into the future. I guess the issue

Re: Unusually long time to log in on fresh testing install

2019-10-08 Thread thomasw
On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, at 10:05 PM, thom...@fastmail.cn wrote: > I just did a fresh install of testing with the Mate desktop and > standard system utilities. I notice that after logging in it takes a > very long time for Orca to start. Can anyone reproduce this or is it just > me? Turns out its

dbus-broker vs dbus-daemon for the accessibility bus

2019-10-08 Thread thomasw
For those not in the know, dbus-broker is a reimplementation of the dbus-daemon. I am very interested in this subject when it comes to the accessibility bus. I have done two types of tests on debian. This requires building the broker from source and rebuilding at-spi2-core. Used cpu was an 8550u.

Talking installer working for me again with HD audio in unstable

2019-10-07 Thread thomasw
Hi, I did a Debian install on a machine where there would previously be no speech with Debian for the past few months and it worked fine. I used the sid DI daily build with firmware to install bullseye. Thanks to Samuel and all others who fixed this.

Unusually long time to log in on fresh testing install

2019-10-06 Thread thomasw
I just did a fresh install of testing with the Mate desktop and standard system utilities. I notice that after logging in it takes a very long time for Orca to start. When I go to shut down and then restart, it shows at-spi-bus-launcher as not responding and i strongly suspect this probably is

Re: extra file in orca orig.tar.xz file that isn't upstream

2019-09-03 Thread thomasw
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, at 3:58 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > thom...@fastmail.cn, le lun. 02 sept. 2019 19:16:02 -0400, a ecrit: > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019, at 5:12 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > thom...@fastmail.cn, le lun. 02 sept. 2019 12:30:11 -0400, a ecrit: > > > > The file po/Makefile.in.in i

Re: extra file in orca orig.tar.xz file that isn't upstream

2019-09-02 Thread thomasw
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019, at 5:12 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > thom...@fastmail.cn, le lun. 02 sept. 2019 12:30:11 -0400, a ecrit: > > The file po/Makefile.in.in is not included with the Orca sources > > ? > It is: > > $ tar tf orca-3.32.0.tar.xz | grep Makefile.in.in > orca-3.32.0/po/M

extra file in orca orig.tar.xz file that isn't upstream

2019-09-02 Thread thomasw
Hi, The file po/Makefile.in.in is not included with the Orca sources and should be generated by the build. I deleted it and the package wouldn't build. I fixed the build by adding to the rules file override_dh_auto_configure: NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh dh_auto_configure Just wan