Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
om > Subject: Re: Accessibility options in Debian > Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:36:20 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > > Thanks for the suggestions. I tried installing Orca on a Raspberry Pi > the other day, but it seemed to have trouble wit

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-23 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hi Aaron, Aaron schrieb am 22.07.2019, 14:36 -0400: >Thanks for the suggestions. I tried installing Orca on a Raspberry Pi >the other day, but it seemed to have trouble with the Pixel desktop. I >was a little concerned after reading that Orca is tightly integrated >with the Gnome desktop, but more

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Majid Hussain
hi there, I would advise you stear away from gnome, it is a memmory hog, it's why i'm sticking with mate, far easia to use in my book, and accessibility is good. they doo say that gnome is quite accessible, but I have not used it since the good ol gnome-2 days. did give it a breefe test when i was

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Aaron
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried installing Orca on a Raspberry Pi the other day, but it seemed to have trouble with the Pixel desktop. I was a little concerned after reading that Orca is tightly integrated with the Gnome desktop, but more recent information seems to suggest that it can be used

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
You might check out viavoice but I don't know if it's free. On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:41:00 > From: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL > To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Accessibility options in Debian >

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, This topic is very important for me but I have few info, so I am happy is someone can tell us. In my mind, Simon is for KDE. So not easily universalisable on other desktops. Butt I would appreciate any suggestion of dictation program, it is a very important request from my users of Debia

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Also, orca cannot take dictation other software is needed for that job. On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, john doe wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:17:10 > From: john doe > To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Accessibility options in Debian > Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Ju

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread john doe
On 7/22/2019 5:47 PM, Majid Hussain wrote: > hi there, > would advise you run with orca, it is a very good screen reader :) > not sure if you are subscribed but you can subscribe to the orca > mailing list which may assist you. > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list > I hope this is of

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Majid Hussain
has capability to take voice dictation. I got into > using its voice output though so never used its dictation capability. > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Aaron wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:40:20 >> From: Aaron >> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org >> S

Re: Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
ccessibility options in Debian > Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:48:52 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > > A few years ago I was working as a developer for a university website. > One of my jobs was ensuring Section 508 compliance. To this end, I had >

Accessibility options in Debian

2019-07-22 Thread Aaron
A few years ago I was working as a developer for a university website. One of my jobs was ensuring Section 508 compliance. To this end, I had downloaded a copy of Orca and used it to try navigating the website and learned to use better voices through festival and mary tts. I also was using Simon (