Re: at-spi 2.33 stack in experimental

2019-09-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jérémy Prego, le ven. 06 sept. 2019 15:36:31 +0200, a ecrit: > as long as I do not press at least one letter, f10, or alt + tab and > then alt + tab to return in pluma, nothing happens if I use the arrow. I can't reproduce the issue. What I am doing is: - install bullseye - upgrade at-spi package

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Didier Spaier, le sam. 07 sept. 2019 21:36:52 +0200, a ecrit: > See attached pic. In this case the virtual sound cards were chosen with > this option: > -soundhw es1370,ac97 > So having an Intel HDA among the cards or not doesn't change the > behavior. Well, yes, in both case there are several car

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Didier Spaier, le sam. 07 sept. 2019 21:56:50 +0200, a ecrit: > On 07/09/2019 21:45, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It can't be sure, that's the problem, because hardware detection > > nowadays is completely asynchronous, there is no such thing as "I have > > finish

Re: at-spi 2.33 stack in experimental

2019-09-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jérémy Prego, le sam. 07 sept. 2019 23:37:19 +0200, a ecrit: > Le 07/09/2019 à 20:40, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > - install bullseye > > - upgrade at-spi packages as mentioned in my previous mail > > > reboot ? or no. here, if I don't restart, I got the impressio

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fran Torres, le lun. 02 sept. 2019 21:05:51 +0200, a ecrit: > is posible make test's of debian installer for debian 10.1 and the new > versión before publish? 10.1 is now published http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/10.1.0/amd64/iso-cd/ Samuel

Re: speakup-ng clipboard functions broken

2019-09-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Didier Spaier, le lun. 09 sept. 2019 04:59:46 +0200, a ecrit: > I don't know if this kernel is patched wrt speakup. It's not. > Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67 > and also that 4.19.0 differs or not from 4.19.67 on that respect. "4.19.0-6-amd64" above is just the package name. The vers

Re: Speakup, orca and brltty

2019-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fran Torres, le lun. 09 sept. 2019 08:40:59 +0200, a ecrit: > Is posible use the Braille display (BRLTTY) how as JAWS for Windows > on Windows operating system for example? With orca, you will have the same kind of access to the MATE desktop as you would have with JAWS on Windows. Shortc

Re: Speakup, orca and brltty

2019-09-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fran Torres, le mer. 11 sept. 2019 08:10:13 +0200, a ecrit: > how to i should configure the brltty, orca, etc for this objetive? This is all done automatically by the installer when you run the installer with braille. Samuel

Re: Speakup, orca and brltty

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fran Torres, le mer. 11 sept. 2019 09:56:41 +0200, a ecrit: > normally, i use the installer with speech. also is posible? > what key is for run installer with braille? Braille is autodetected when it's plugged via USB. Samuel

Re: Speakup, orca and brltty

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le mer. 11 sept. 2019 12:08:20 +0200, a ecrit: > On 9/11/2019 10:44 AM, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > > Fran Torres schrieb am 11.09.2019, 9:56 +0200: > >> exist's a versión of installer with speech and braille? > > > > No, unfortunately not. If you plan to use your system with speech and

Re: Speakup, orca and brltty

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fran Torres, le mer. 11 sept. 2019 19:19:40 +0200, a ecrit: > i using a ecobraille braille display. This display use the Serial COM > port, not a USB. For connect it to USB, i using a USB to COM adapter. In that case you need to specify a brltty= option at the boot prompt: https://www.debian.org/

at-spi 2.34 stack in testing

2019-09-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, The at-spi 2.34 stack has migrated to Debian testing. I'll upload it to backports soon. Samuel

brltty 6.0 is in Debian experimental

2019-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Brltty 6.0 has landed in experimental, up for your giving a try! Samuel

Re: brltty 6.0 is in Debian experimental

2019-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mar. 17 sept. 2019 20:56:57 +0200, a ecrit: > Brltty 6.0 has landed in experimental, up for your giving a try! Ah, it's not on the mirrors yet, that'll go with the next mirrors pulse, which should happen soon. Alternatively, you can use the incoming sour

Re: Backports question

2019-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Vlček, le lun. 30 sept. 2019 15:24:08 +0200, a ecrit: > at this time, I need to return to Debian stable, because it is the best > solution for Vmware virtualization. When I enable backports, will be > accessibility packages updated automatically after adding backports to > sources.list and ap

Re: debian assist inquiry

2019-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello and welcome, lwhona...@gmail.com, le mar. 01 oct. 2019 14:58:01 -0400, a ecrit: > Is this the appropriate list to get some guidance on my newbie questions? Yes. > I do not mind digging and I have already been doing a lot of reading. I > believe I am getting close to an attempted install o

Re: brltty 6.0 is in Debian experimental

2019-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Alex ARNAUD, le mer. 09 oct. 2019 08:50:56 +0200, a ecrit: > After thinking and discusssing I assume pushing BRLTTY 6.0 to Sid seems the > way to go to expect having feedback from users. Sure! I'm just waiting for my transition request for the libbrlapi0.7 name change #941237 Samuel

Re: Talking installer working for me again with HD audio in unstable

2019-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, thom...@fastmail.cn, le lun. 07 oct. 2019 11:04:37 -0400, a ecrit: > 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. Thanks for confirming this! Samuel

Re: brltty 6.0 is in Debian experimental

2019-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mer. 09 oct. 2019 08:55:10 +0200, a ecrit: > Alex ARNAUD, le mer. 09 oct. 2019 08:50:56 +0200, a ecrit: > > After thinking and discusssing I assume pushing BRLTTY 6.0 to Sid seems the > > way to go to expect having feedback from users. > > Sure! I&

Re: brltty 6.0 is in Debian testing

2019-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, brltty 6.0 migrated to debian testing, it will be available there on your preferred mirror within a few hours. Samuel

Re: Issue with sound card

2019-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Kenneth Schack Banner, le ven. 18 oct. 2019 14:06:46 +0200, a ecrit: > Im trying to install Debian 10 buster (firmware-10.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso). Please use version 10.1.0. There was an issue in the Linux HDA driver in version 10.0.0. Samuel

Re: Issue with sound card

2019-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenneth Schack Banner, le ven. 18 oct. 2019 19:11:28 +0200, a ecrit: > Is it possible to use speech in the dark mode installation? I really like > the dark mode due to its graphical and id prefer that over text (DOS) mode.. This is not supported. This would mean embedded a graphical screen reader

Re: Issue with sound card

2019-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenneth Schack Banner, le ven. 18 oct. 2019 19:28:46 +0200, a ecrit: > Thanks for letting know! Can i request such a feature somewhere? It is already in the TODO list, it's now a matter of people finding time to implement it. Samuel

Re: Issue with sound card

2019-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenneth Schack Banner, le ven. 18 oct. 2019 19:33:53 +0200, a ecrit: > Is that todo list public It is the accesibility-devel wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility-devel Samuel

Re: Text installer irritation

2019-10-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, john doe, le mar. 22 oct. 2019 19:56:20 +0200, a ecrit: > On 10/22/2019 7:29 PM, dhof...@att.net wrote: > > I have come upon a re-occurring anoyance with the Debian text mode > > installer which has been present in the last several versions including > > Debian 10. At the prompt to ente

brltty 6.0 available in buster-backports

2019-10-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, For people interested in it, brltty 6.0 will be available in buster-backports within a few hours. The procedure is the same as for upgrading at-spi: https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Upgrading_the_Assistive_Technology_At_Spi Samuel

Fwd: installing speakup (etc) in a VirtualBox VM

2019-10-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
From: Rich Morin To: pkg-a11y-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: installing speakup (etc) in a VirtualBox VM I've been putting together VirtualBox VMs that start with Ubuntu and add lots of blind-friendly packages. For example: emacspeak, espeak-ng, espeak-ng-data, espeakup, fenrir, mbrola-*

Re: Fwd: installing speakup (etc) in a VirtualBox VM

2019-10-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le sam. 26 oct. 2019 07:30:30 -0700, a ecrit: > I'd like to follow up with a request for help in documenting the kinds of > major dependencies that exist among the a11y-related packages Are you perhaps looking for http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility ? Samuel

Re: Text installer irritation

2019-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, dhof...@att.net, le mar. 22 oct. 2019 10:29:54 -0700, a ecrit: > At the prompt to enter your Wifi server password, if you enter an incorrect > password and try to correct it with the backspace key, it always results in > an error. I am not able to reproduce this issue. I tried both the t

Re: Text installer irritation

2019-10-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cindy Sue Causey, le mer. 30 oct. 2019 08:00:22 -0500, a ecrit: > He said something about using "backspace". Is there any chance that > it's also maybe either kicking things backward one screen or at least > backward into a different text field? No, that is working fine. Samuel

Re: Bullseye and GUI accessibility

2019-10-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le mer. 30 oct. 2019 19:02:47 +0100, a ecrit: > I dont believe that Wayland will be ready for Bullseye from an a11y point of > view. Wil the installer choose Mate + Xorg for speech/braille/dark > installations? That's what it currently does, I don't think we plan to change

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Devin Prater, le dim. 10 nov. 2019 02:46:51 -0600, a ecrit: > if GTK4 folks say it’s Orca’s fault, put an issue on Orca, and > loop them all in, grab some popcorn, and watch them point fingers. I don't think we want to make Joanmarie handle that. Samuel

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Alex ARNAUD, le ven. 08 nov. 2019 09:29:21 +0100, a ecrit: > To be fully clear: There is no risk to see something changes on your > experience > until approximately 4 years. Possibly a bit longer. It took a lot of time for applications to migrate from gtk2 to gtk3. Migrating to gtk4 will

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 10 nov. 2019 12:33:17 +0100, a ecrit: > Devin Prater, le dim. 10 nov. 2019 02:46:51 -0600, a ecrit: > > if GTK4 folks say it’s Orca’s fault, put an issue on Orca, and > > loop them all in, grab some popcorn, and watch them point fingers. > > I don&#x

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 release

2019-12-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, A small update on the Debian installer front: Cyril Brulebois, le jeu. 05 déc. 2019 14:25:51 +0100, a ecrit: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha > release of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". [...] > * debian-installer: > - Restore 'd' shortcu

Re: grub

2019-12-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, mattias jonsson, le sam. 07 déc. 2019 19:00:06 +0100, a ecrit: > Are it possible to get grub2 to beep when i are on the win 10 boot entry? I don't think that grub2 can do this. IIRC there was previously a trick by putting some ^G character in the configuration, but that does not seem to be

Re: grub

2019-12-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chime Hart, le sam. 07 déc. 2019 13:00:13 -0800, a ecrit: > While certainly numbered beeps would be quite good, at least in LILO you can > asign letter hotkeys such as w for windows. Can that be done in grub? Yes, you however can't make update-grub do it. I added a section about this here: https:

Re: debian net install latest iso does speech work again?

2019-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Majid Hussain, le dim. 15 déc. 2019 00:07:44 +, a ecrit: > I remember the first debian 10 iso had issues, > could you tell me if these issues are fixed? They have been fixed in 10.2, yes. Samuel

Re: Debian 10.2.0 post installation issue

2019-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pawel L., le mar. 17 déc. 2019 20:47:23 -0500, a ecrit: > After rebooting my system at the end of the installation process I > could hear ORCA asking me about my user name & password so I entered > this data & as soon as I did it ORCA's speech was gone. I had no idea > what happened. I am

Re: Debian 10.2.0 post installation issue

2019-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le mer. 18 déc. 2019 11:15:02 -0500, a ecrit: > If I'm not mistaken espeak is used to install debian. Yes (espeak-ng more precisely). > For that reason even if orca gets installed, orca has not yet been run > on the hardware. Yes. > For that reason it's entirely correct for anyon

Re: Debian 10.2.0 post installation issue

2019-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pawel L., le jeu. 19 déc. 2019 09:08:59 -0500, a ecrit: > when I tried to login as root there was no speech available. Ah, ok, I indeed hadn't even considered that case. I'm a bit surprised that it wouldn't work. While it's not a good idea to open a graphical session as root, it should still be wo

Re: questions about installing Emacspeak

2019-12-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, For questions, better ask the debian-accessibility mailing list. Rich Morin, le sam. 21 déc. 2019 17:08:27 -0800, a ecrit: > I am building a VirtualBox VM, based on Ubuntu disco, for use with Vagrant. > I would like to > install Emacspeak in this VM. I have a couple of questions I'm hop

Re: Speech synthesizers and todays Bluetooth audio devices issue

2020-01-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel, le jeu. 02 janv. 2020 14:56:21 +0100, a ecrit: > But what could I do with build in device firmware, which automatically > turn The chip of those device off after short amount of time, when > device will not receive any sound. Yes :/ > There are various techniques to pr

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

2020-01-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le mar. 07 janv. 2020 10:15:18 -0500, a ecrit: > Debian has a program to reconfigure console font, but it does not > include the larger size fonts such as Terminus ter-v32b.psf.gz The name suggests a 32pixel font. As documented on https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Con

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

2020-01-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Didier Spaier, le mar. 07 janv. 2020 17:31:53 +0100, a ecrit: > Le 7/01/20 à 16:55, Alexandre ARNAUD a écrit : > > Does the TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz should work too? > > that's the same font, only the shipped glyphs differ, ter-v* having > the most. ? The terminus fonts shipped by Debian contain

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

2020-01-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alex ARNAUD, le mar. 07 janv. 2020 19:55:53 +0100, a ecrit: > The main issue here is despite of the font selected at each startup the TTY > doesn't load it. I have never had this issue. > You need to run manually "setup-con" blindly to make it > working. [1]This seems to be this issue. >From the

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

2020-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alex ARNAUD, le mer. 08 janv. 2020 14:47:01 +0100, a ecrit: > I've reinstall my system for Buster, configured TerminusBold at size 32 but at > each reboot I don't see the font configuration. > > Does it work for you with such font configuration? Yes. Samuel

Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

2020-01-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jason White, le dim. 12 janv. 2020 11:22:34 -0500, a ecrit: > There is interesting text to speech work underway at Mozilla - all free > software/open-source. > > Demonstration: https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/commonvoice-loc-sens-attn > > Git repository: https://github.com/mozilla/

Re: [fenrir-screenreader] Re: fenrir installation (fwd)

2020-02-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jude DaShiell, le dim. 02 févr. 2020 07:35:50 -0500, a ecrit: > > pip3 install fenrir-screenreader and that should work on any linux > > distribution. > well right, in theory it should. in reality it does place the configuration > files at a wrong installation path. i did not figure whats t

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sebastian Humenda, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 08:39:04 +, a ecrit: > There is software for Windows, not part of the standard embosser driver, which > can print SVG and black/white, 50 DPI pictures, so I was wondering whether > somebody did something similar on Debian? Yes, I did :) See the

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 08:39:04 +, a ecrit: > which can print SVG and black/white, 50 DPI pictures, In the driver I wrote for the Index devices, I only added support for 1.5mm dot distance, thus 17DPI. I didn't have the time to add support for the 0.5mm resolution. In my tes

Re: Festival configuration files

2020-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pavel Vlček, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 10:29:01 +0100, a ecrit: > in the current version of Festival, which includes all Czech voices is one > step with config files, but I can not find the tutorial, how to copy config > files, it was in documentation / configuration examples I thing. Are you

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 22:17:56 +0100, a ecrit: > How good is the interpretation of the layout? It's simply liblouis. > How would I adjust settings such as the language to emboss? As usual with cups, in the http://localhost:631 web interface, or on the fly on the command line.

Re: Festival configuration files

2020-02-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Vlček, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 12:48:00 +0100, a ecrit: > My friend sent my old instructions for me, but this command not work: > > sudo wget > http://live.freebsoft.org/ubuntu-festival/attachments/festival.default -O > /etc/default/festival Ok, so it seems that you wanted the latter (generic

Re: add accessibility section to "List of sections" pages?

2020-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 07:51:32 -0800, a ecrit: > I recently wrote the following note to debian-...@lists.debian.org: > > > The Debian "List of sections" pages (eg, > > https://packages.debian.org/stable) have no section for accessibility. > > Please consider adding one, list

Re: add accessibility section to "List of sections" pages?

2020-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 10:34:17 -0800, a ecrit: > > On Feb 24, 2020, at 10:26, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Actually, we already had this idea in the past :) > > > > See the "Accessibility archive section?" section of > > https://wik

Re: notions on Debian accessibility

2020-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 08:22:06 -0800, a ecrit: > The first notion has to do with the initial accessibility of the system. > There is probably a minimum set of tools (e.g., Fenrir, Orca) that would let > a user get started. If these were installed and configured properly on a

Re: add accessibility section to "List of sections" pages?

2020-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Wise, le mar. 25 févr. 2020 08:54:22 +0800, a ecrit: > On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 07:51 -0800, Rich Morin wrote: > > > In response, I received the following suggestions from Paul Wise: > > > > > One against each of the relevant packages asking to update the section. > > FTR, I'm not entirely sur

Re: New mate in Debian 10?

2020-02-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Vojtěch Šmiro, le sam. 29 févr. 2020 12:56:11 +0100, a ecrit: > is some way to upgrade mate in Debian 10 Stretch? In Stretch itself no: the stability of Debian notably comes from avoiding to include bleeding edge software :) An option is MATE being uploaded in stretch-backports. I don't k

Re: how to get Orca build dep after backport update?

2020-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le sam. 29 févr. 2020 17:40:40 +0100, a ecrit: > Have you tried apt-get build-dep orca -t buster-backports ? That doesn't seem to be working unfortunately. I have added this to the wiki: apt-get install libatspi2.0-dev/buster-backports libatk-bridge2.0-dev/buster-backport

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 01 mars 2020 18:15:58 +0100, a ecrit: > Rich Morin (2020-02-29): > > As I understand it, Orca is generally installed as a dependency of a > > desktop. This makes me wonder whether a server system would (or > > should) have it. This isn't an idle question: Ubuntu

Re: Bug#890833: at-spi2-core: Intermittent 90s shutdown delay: at-spi-dbus-bus.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out

2020-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, We have some new on this 90s-delay computer shutdown: upstream has committed something which might be fixing it. I have uploaded at-spi2-core version 2.34.0-4 which includes it. Could people who are regularly having the issue test this version? If it does fix it, I'll probably propose upl

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit: > In another forum, I've been told that Orca is a rather heavyweight solution > for providing boot-time speech generation. It was recommended that I > consider Fenrir, instead. Fenrir is also quite heavy-weight, since it brings python. B

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le lun. 02 mars 2020 11:03:28 -0500, a ecrit: > Apple solved this problem back in 2006. On the desktop, yes. Here we are talking about an embedded device. > That was when Mac OS Tiger 10.4 > became available. What Apple did was to put a message asking for > language to be used on

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: > Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired > would go a lon way. But we don't necessarily want to ask the question on all Debian systems at all boot. I'm not saying that there is no solution. I'm saying that it's

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:24:48 +0100, a ecrit: > On 3/2/2020 5:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: > >> Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired > >> would go a lon way. >

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mewtamer, le lun. 02 mars 2020 16:36:02 +, a ecrit: > 1. At present, Raspbian enables ssh by creating a blank file called > ssh in the boot partition and then booting the card. Could a similar > method be used for enabling accessibility? Probably. The details are probably to be seen with them

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 19:33:22 +0100, a ecrit: > Actually, creating a new cd iso that would have accessibility in mind > could be one option. > > EG: > > debian-10.3-accessibility-netinst.iso Yes, but I don't think it is a good option. For most impact, it's better to make the standard

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 05 mars 2020 02:53:30 -0600, a ecrit: > I don't know all the ins and outs of preseeding, etc. So, I'll talk about > use cases. I'm mostly looking for a way to make freshly installed systems > (e.g., PC, RasPi) accessible in two situations: One thing I am missing in

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 12 mars 2020 09:28:49 -0700, a ecrit: > The idea of detecting the presence (or absence) of a blind-related device > seems worth pursuing, even if there are some issues to be resolved. The Debian Installer detects the presence of a braille device and then enables access

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 release

2020-03-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Extracting the interesting part for debian-accessibility for your convenience: Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 16 mars 2020 17:27:38 +0100, a ecrit: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second alpha > release of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". > > Improvements in thi

Re: bookworm for accessibility

2020-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Colomban Wendling, le mar. 17 mars 2020 10:46:16 +0100, a ecrit: > Le 16/03/2020 à 21:16, john doe a écrit : > > On 3/16/2020 8:52 PM, Paul Gevers wrote: > >> Hi hjenkins, > >> > >> On 16-03-2020 19:53, hjenkins wrote: > >>> Packaging the Bookworm e-reader could significantly improve the >

Re: bookworm for accessibility

2020-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
mattias, le lun. 23 mars 2020 07:54:39 +0100, a ecrit: > but ebookspeaker are a consoel app? Yes. Samuel

Re: bookworm for accessibility

2020-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jos Lemmens, le lun. 23 mars 2020 10:01:14 +0100, a ecrit: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:54:39AM +0100, mattias wrote: > > but ebookspeaker are a consoel app? > Indeed, but maybe it also works in xterm. I don't use X myself, so > I'm not sure. Any console app can run in an x

Re: question is the mini.iso accessible from the link in the body of this message?

2020-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Majid Hussain, le dim. 05 avril 2020 23:24:12 +0100, a ecrit: > curious is the iso from here > http://ftp.is.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > accessible with speech? No, because it's the extra-lightweight image. Use the image from the gtk/ sub

Re: question is the mini.iso accessible from the link in the body of this message?

2020-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Majid Hussain, le dim. 05 avril 2020 23:51:30 +0100, a ecrit: > and does that gtk version act like the net install? > what does this gtk folder contain? Yes, it's just the graphical version of it. > I just wish to install debian unstable directly hence my question, That should work to do it yes.

Re: getting or creating single html or text files of the installation or reference guides or the FAQ for reading on talking book players for the blind community

2020-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Nick Gawronski, le mar. 07 avril 2020 22:27:33 -0500, a ecrit: > I am wanting to find single file html or text file manuals of things > like the reference and debian installation guides and the FAQ They are usually already available as such. For the installation manual for instance, you ha

Re: broken archives

2020-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, David Hoff Jr, le sam. 11 avril 2020 16:33:28 -0700, a ecrit: > Is there a mirror that I can enter manually when given that choice? Yes, for old releases you can use http://archive.debian.org/debian , it contains all of them. Samuel

Re: broken archives

2020-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le sam. 11 avril 2020 17:04:47 -0700, a ecrit: > his looks like an archive of the ISO. No it's not, see that there is a dists/ directory in which you have all distros, and pool/ in which you have all packages. So really, http://archive.debian.org/debian/ is a valid mirror URL to be

Re: broken archives

2020-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le sam. 11 avril 2020 19:28:55 -0700, a ecrit: > At the first prompt I press the number 1 to enter the url manually. > thenI use the default of "archive.debian.org/debian. (there is not a / > after it. > > then I enter "/dists/wheezy/non-free/". Where do you enter that? You shoul

Re: broken archives

2020-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le dim. 12 avril 2020 12:23:15 -0700, a ecrit: > This brings up the prompt to please enter the host name of the mirror > from which debian will be downloaded. > I enter http://archive.debian.org > > then I get the prompt: > Please enter the directory in which the mirror of the debia

Re: Debian Live DVD Orca autostart

2020-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jude DaShiell, le mar. 14 avril 2020 00:57:22 -0400, a ecrit: > Debian has preseed capability which may be what you'll need. preseed is only for the debian installer, not live CDs. Samuel

Re: Debian Live DVD Orca autostart

2020-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Egon, le mar. 14 avril 2020 05:54:45 +0200, a ecrit: > eval $(dbus-launch); export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID [...] > > It does not operate inside a chroot environment. An equivalent is to put this: [org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications] screen-reader-enabled=true [o

Re: Re: Which Desktop Environment is the best for blind?

2020-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Constantine Ryzhikov, le mar. 14 avril 2020 22:36:23 +0300, a ecrit: > Intrasting, why the default Debian desktop is installed with Mate. As I > know, this is Gnome... When accessibility is not used during installation, yes. But if accessibility is used (braille, speech, or dark theme), the Mate d

Re: orca and remote apps from ssh session

2020-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Theoretically yes it could work, but nothing was made to make it easy so far. At-spi listens on a dbus bus which is on an abstract unix socket, and ssh can not forward a unix socket that lives in the abstract space. Using socat can work to serve as a bridge, e.g. when we have this: $ xpr

Synthesis volume in the debian installer

2020-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, On https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/gtk/mini.iso a new debian installer image is available that provides support for a larger range of levels of volume available with speakup-2. Could people try it? The idea is that in the debian installer, it is not convenient to

Re: Synthesis volume in the debian installer

2020-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le ven. 01 mai 2020 10:40:02 +0200, a ecrit: > I get the below error when trying to download the file at (1). > > 1) https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/gtk/mini.iso Jeez... Of course it's when I send the URL that the daily build fails :) Yesterday's build is stil

Re: Synthesis volume in the debian installer

2020-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le ven. 01 mai 2020 11:48:06 +0200, a ecrit: > Just to be clear, downloading then cping the file on a usb stick is enough? I don't know if cp will accept a block device as target, but dd will Samuel

Re: Extending eSpeak NG for singing synthesis.

2020-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Tobias Platen, le ven. 08 mai 2020 18:59:29 +0200, a ecrit: > I've written a small patch for eSpeak NG which adds a singing synthesis mode > similar to the singing-mode.scm included in Festival and used by the Singing > Computer[1]. > The patch adds two options for setting the note pitch

Re: Problems with Espeak and some signs

2020-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vojtěch šmiro, le mar. 12 mai 2020 13:42:44 +0200, a ecrit: > Can I send czech web, where the problem with Espeak is? Sure, just also tell us where the issue is inside the webpage. Samuel

Re: Problems with Espeak and some signs

2020-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Vojtěch šmiro, le mar. 12 mai 2020 12:55:40 +0200, a ecrit: > when is in some text square, Espeak reads bad thinks. Please provide the content of the text, so we can have a look. Samuel

Re: Problems with Espeak and some signs

2020-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vojtěch šmiro, le mar. 12 mai 2020 12:55:40 +0200, a ecrit: > when is in some text square, Espeak reads bad thinks. When I read some texts > with squares, I have to switch on Voxin, because it reads for example > eeaaa or others. Ok, so from https://poslepu.cz/jarni-agora-2020-online-jaky-bu

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters > Samuel Thibault schrieb am 20.02.2020, 23:11 +0100: > >Sebastian Humenda, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 22:17:56 +0100, a ecrit: > >> How good is the interpretation of the layout? > > > >It's simply liblouis. > > Ok, so I'll

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Keith Barrett, le ven. 22 mai 2020 16:12:15 +0100, a ecrit: > In case it helps, last time I looked at this, both margins and papersize set > in cupps were ignored. > Using an index basic d embosser. That's surprising, they should be getting taken into account. A cups log with verbosity enabled wou

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le ven. 22 mai 2020 17:32:04 +0200, a ecrit: > Do you have a clue about the last lines: > > :2: invalid literaryTextTable > Finish read_configuration_file > Starting new document > Cannot open main table (null) I don't know, trying to extract what the script doe

Re: Graphics (braille) embossing

2020-05-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le sam. 23 mai 2020 17:52:07 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault schrieb am 22.05.2020, 18:12 +0200: > >Sebastian Humenda, le ven. 22 mai 2020 17:32:04 +0200, a ecrit: > >> Do you have a clue about the last lines: > >> > >> :2: inval

Re: Would it be worthwhile to rebuild Mate?

2020-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
John J. Boyer, le sam. 30 mai 2020 02:56:58 -0500, a ecrit: > If so, please give me the URL for cloning the repository. I have the latest > Debian package. I don't understand what you would want to do with rebuilding Mate? Normally that would just give you the same result as the Debian packages.

Re: Would it be worthwhile to rebuild Mate?

2020-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
John J. Boyer, le sam. 30 mai 2020 04:07:00 -0500, a ecrit: > I'm just thinking that the repository may include improvements that aren't in > the latest package. Ah ok you mean a newer upstream version. You can try to use apt-get source to get the current version of Debian, get the current versi

Re: Audio problems with Debian, speech output and the latest VMware Workstation release :-(

2020-06-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 05 juin 2020 09:44:14 +0200, a ecrit: > the sound output and therefore also the speech output is stucking. It > sounds like the system is under heavy load and speech is only outputed > in fragments with little breaks in between. Just to be sure: - what is yo

Re: Audio problems with Debian, speech output and the latest VMware Workstation release :-(

2020-06-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 05 juin 2020 12:08:24 +0200, a ecrit: > speech-dispatcher 0.9.0-5+deb10u1 > speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins:amd64 0.9.0-5+deb10u1 Ok, so this includes the latest fixes. Just wondering: did you try to play e.g. some music to see if the problem is

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