Re: OT, Re: Which softwares to install ?

2022-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, D.J.J. Ring wrote: > He just suggested that if anyone wanted to they could try the new F4 > (to me) GTK accessible greeter that he had just put in Slint, they > could by using the new beta just mentioned there first SLINT iso. He could also have suggested to try it in Debian 11, which does

Re: OT, Re: Which softwares to install ?

2022-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
D.J.J. Ring wrote: > If we want to use lxde-greeter is this F4 shortcut already installed? If not, > how do we install it? I don't know if lxde-greeter has such a shortcut. Samuel

Re: OT, Re: Which softwares to install ?

2022-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, David Hoff Jr, le mar. 19 juil. 2022 10:39:02 -0700, a ecrit: > I want to use Debian 11 and Voxin on a older > netbook which is 32 bit. I would be satisfied with a console only > installation . Where is there more information on the GTK accessible > greeter and does it work with Voxin in th

Re: Voxin in the Debian 11 console

2022-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Hoff Jr, le lun. 18 juil. 2022 11:47:53 -0700, a ecrit: > What do we need to do to get Voxin to work in the Debian 11 console? It > works great in the GUI desktop. If you have voxin already working on the desktop, you can enable pulseaudio as root, documented on https://wiki.debian.org/acces

Re: Voxin in the Debian 11 console

2022-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chime Hart, le mar. 26 juil. 2022 15:39:33 -0700, a ecrit: > And Samuel, in your previous message, I had never seen that address > for oralux? Is that an alternative or an error? I don't know, I just googled for voxinup. Samuel

Re: at-spi2-core 2.45 alpha in experimental

2022-08-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have now uploaded version 2.45.90 of at-spi-core2 and pyatspi in experimental, tests welcome! Samuel Samuel Thibault, le lun. 04 juil. 2022 10:58:16 +0200, a ecrit: > Hello, > > The atspi stack packaging is getting simplified, at-spi2-atk and atk > have been merged into

Re: Testing No Braille keys in X

2022-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Raphaël POITEVIN, le mer. 10 août 2022 20:44:48 +0200, a ecrit: > Braille keys are not available in X and Orca. What do you mean exactly by "braille keys"? Do you mean the perkins keys, or all keys from the braille device? Also, which model of braille device is that? Probably it'd be use

Re: colors in firefox

2022-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Wales wrote: > firefox colors are nearly unusable. there is blue everyuwhere. i > already wear noir 570 glasses which is very dark amber. i have > already set up redshift and ddccontrol and set monitor settings for > low blue. i don't need advice on that stuff i think. It is how

Re: colors in firefox

2022-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Wales, le ven. 19 août 2022 18:14:57 -0700, a ecrit: > to answer your q though, you are right. it is impossible that those > things work for everything except firefox. Ok. > this is not a wavelength question per se. it is a question only about > what can i do to fix firefox color setting

Re: How can I get usable information with current whois?

2022-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, John J. Boyer, le mar. 23 août 2022 09:14:42 -0500, a ecrit: > It gives me a lot of stuff, with much of it redacted, meaning it isn't shown. This means that it is not available in the whois database any more for that particular domain any more, as requested by the owner of the domain. So t

debian images to include non-free firmwares?

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, An on-going vote is happening to decide whether to include non-free firmwares on the official Debian images: https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 One of the arguments mentioned in favour of doing so was to fix the accessibility issue when the hardware sound board needs a firmware to w

Re: debian images to include non-free firmwares?

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chime Hart, le sam. 27 août 2022 12:39:18 -0700, a ecrit: > You know, among 158 links on that page, I find no way of voting? Only debian developers can vote. Samuel

Re: Debian Firmware

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le sam. 27 août 2022 17:46:08 -0400, a ecrit: > Hi, I am for this as an normal user I should not have to wonder if the > firmware for my hardware is free or not and I just want a system that > works with all of my hardware regardless of if it is free or not. > > That'

Re: how to set other languageson speakup and espeak

2022-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sorry for the delay, I had to actually test things to check what was going wrong. Marcel Roșca wrote: > but when the installation process had been finished, > The language is also romanian, but numbers and symbols it is reading in > English > and just letters it is speaking in Romanian.

Orca 43 beta in experimental

2022-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Orca 43 beta is landing in experimental, tests welcome, and please report bugs to the orca-l...@gnome.org mailing list! Samuel

Re: new member

2022-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, K0LNY_Glenn, le lun. 29 août 2022 13:14:32 -0500, a ecrit: > I made the mistake during the install of not selecting common system tools > when I selected ssh-server, and running tasksel now does not seem to offer > that any more, For the particular case of the standard task, you can get

Re: how to set other languageson speakup and espeak

2022-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Marcel Roșca, le lun. 29 août 2022 20:35:17 +0300, a ecrit: > Voice didnt read numbers and symbols in romanian just letters it was > pronouncing in romanian; Ah, now things make sense to me :) I was testing the letters only... Ok, I see. You can try to run echo 1 > /sys/accessibility/spea

Re: how to set other languageson speakup and espeak

2022-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Marcel Roșca, le mar. 30 août 2022 12:40:44 +0300, a ecrit: > How to scrolup for read messages top of the visible window? For example, I > execute ls /etc or a cat /large/file and the messages is too big to read in a > window, how can scrol up to see the first messages. You can add | less

Re: how to set other languageson speakup and espeak

2022-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marcel Roșca, le mar. 30 août 2022 08:06:31 +0300, a ecrit: > Well thanks very much. Could you update me if anything changes? That will be months from now unfortunately, I'm afraid I won't be able to remember :) Samuel

Re: how to set other languageson speakup and espeak

2022-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marcel Roșca, le mar. 30 août 2022 08:41:27 +0300, a ecrit: > Sorry, but could you explain me why it is doing that? Here it would rather be a question for the speakup mailing list. Initially it was rather speakup that was managing how key presses etc. should be pronounced, and using the i18n files

Re: missing tools

2022-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, K0LNY_Glenn, le ven. 02 sept. 2022 23:55:35 -0500, a ecrit: > It does not understand sudo, You can install sudo to get it. > I have to do su and enter the root password, If you only run su, you won't get into PATH the commands that are in /sbin. Use su - instead (with a dash). Samuel

Re: get wifi going

2022-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le ven. 02 sept. 2022 22:46:33 -0500, a ecrit: > I found a command on-line for launching wpa_supplicant, but this OS does not > recognize the command wpa_supplicant. > Then I tried > iwlist wlan0 scan > and this OS didn't understand wlist This is the same problem: use su - Samuel

Bug#1019276: ITP: nvda2speechd -- A bridge between Windows applications and Speech dispatcher

2022-09-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org * Package name: nvda2speechd Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Rastislav Kish * URL : https://github.com/RastislavKish

Re: debian academy initiative

2022-09-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le mar. 06 sept. 2022 19:05:47 -0400, a ecrit: > Is it appropriate or does debian-accessibility already have a debian > academy online training course to educate on a11Y and how that connects to > debian? There aren't such programs in Debian. Samuel

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1 release

2022-09-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pointing the accessibility-related changes that are visible to users: Cyril Brulebois, le jeu. 22 sept. 2022 05:27:13 +0200, a ecrit: > * brltty: > - Updated to version 6.5 > - Automatically shrink width to 80 columns, as that is much more > convenient on Braille devices. >

Re: debian images to include non-free firmwares?

2022-10-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
So the official result is: "Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, one installer" We'll have only one installer, that will include the non-free firmwares (notably the sound ones) Samuel

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2022-10-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, It would be useful to determine which version of espeakup brought this regression? Possibly also try to change the version of libespeak-ng1. Samuel Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 06 oct. 2022 15:55:01 -0400, a ecrit: > Hello all, > > Anyone else seeing this? I haven't got any logging to show a

Re: How to convert a XML file of US patent into a plain text file on a Linux platform?

2022-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Henry Chang, le dim. 23 oct. 2022 20:12:45 -0400, a ecrit: > I have successfully convert a pdf file of US patent into .png, then into .txt > by using pdftoppm and tesseract. pdftoppm could re-rater. Better use pdfimages which will just take the images from the pdf unmodified. > I found th

Re: How to search and mine text on a two-column pdf file?

2022-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henry Chang, le jeu. 27 oct. 2022 12:08:20 -0400, a ecrit: > I found that the original 11470644.pdf is formatted in two columns. The texts > on a line of the first column messed up with the texts on the line of the > second column at the same position. Perhaps you can use pdfcrop and pdftk to spli

Re: How to search and mine text on a two-column pdf file?

2022-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henry Chang, le jeu. 27 oct. 2022 13:02:43 -0400, a ecrit: > What are the bash commands to make pdfcrop and pdftk work? Thanks. I don't know, but man pdfcrop and man pdftk will know. Samuel

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2022-10-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le ven. 28 oct. 2022 11:03:58 -0400, a ecrit: > I have been taking newer kernels. Kernel device drivers introduce buffering, so it can be useful to investigate if it's a new kernel that introduced the regression. Samuel

Re: Debian and Orca installation Question

2022-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Egon, le sam. 29 oct. 2022 20:03:33 +0200, a ecrit: > better if I install it from "debian-11.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" image? When installing from that image, I do get Orca starting automatically. Samuel

Re: Debian and Orca installation Question

2022-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Egon, le sam. 29 oct. 2022 20:03:33 +0200, a ecrit: > How can I install the system to avoid these problems? > Can I install the system from "debian-live-11.3.0-amd64-mate.iso" It seems that the debian live images have dropped the bits that make orca auto-started. Samuel

Re: find command

2022-10-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le lun. 31 oct. 2022 12:05:57 -0500, a ecrit: > Originally, before searching on-line, I tried: > find ~/ -type f -name *.log > find.txt You want this, but rather find ~/ (which will only look in your home), you want find / Samuel

Re: find command

2022-10-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le lun. 31 oct. 2022 13:52:56 -0500, a ecrit: > In there is a speech-dispatcher/log folder with some log files and in all of > /var and subdirectories, I only found these two files with anything inside. > I'll attach them. Ok, thanks, that's useful. It seems that the sd_voxin module

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mar. 01 nov. 2022 16:42:16 -0500, a ecrit: > Could it be that spd-conf is not hooking to some other files, possibly > because I installed python3-speech-dispatcher, several days back? If you have installed speech-dispatcher through Debian packages, there is no "other files". We n

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mar. 01 nov. 2022 17:51:27 -0500, a ecrit: > Okay, here's the two logs from /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher. Ok, but this doesn't seem to include running spd-say ? We need to observe that to be able to know what is happening. Samuel

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mer. 02 nov. 2022 11:37:36 -0500, a ecrit: > Where might I find a log file for spd-say? I mean the log of speech-dispatcher after spd-say tried to use it to speech something. Samuel

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mer. 02 nov. 2022 11:56:03 -0500, a ecrit: > But neither spd-say nor espeakup are using it, Note that you can tell spd-say explicitly to use ibmtss by using spd-say -o ibmtts foobar Again, sending the logs would actually tell us what is happening, to be able to help you for real

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mer. 02 nov. 2022 12:22:08 -0500, a ecrit: > I attached the ibmtts.log file, the speech-dispatcher file shows nothing, Really nothing? That's not supposed to happen, we should be seeing at least the initialization of modules and the connection of spd-say. Also, As I already menti

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mer. 02 nov. 2022 13:07:05 -0500, a ecrit: > I just looked, the other day you suggested I increase the log level, and at > that time in speechd.conf I changed it to 4, it says 5 is not recommended so > you are still getting level 4, I just checked. 4 should be enough, yes. So, ar

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation

2022-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
jordan, le jeu. 03 nov. 2022 14:49:51 +, a ecrit: > as far as I know, you could manually select options in the installer, but as I > understand it goes through them on its own, the only chance I have had to go > through them manually was because of an error You can also come back to the main m

Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation

2022-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jordan Livesey, le jeu. 03 nov. 2022 15:39:42 +, a ecrit: > So how would you get the advanced installation when pressing s on the boot > menu immediately puts you in the main installer after you select a sound board Just like documented on https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility : « Starting f

speech installation progress feedback?

2022-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, During installation with speech enabled, when unpacking packages progress is only notified every 10%. For long installations that can be very long without any feedback. I can add a temporal condition, so that one gets e.g. feedback every minute or something like that. What do people feel sh

Re: brltty failing to load in initramfs started before systemd-udev-settle.service

2022-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Digging back this old mail. Sebastian Humenda, le mar. 13 déc. 2016 09:03:14 +0100, a ecrit: > The proposed change possibly breaks the initramfs-option of BRLTTY, but that > never worked for me so far. In the Debian packaging there was a bug, we fixed it with Sébastien this week-end, uplo

Re: speech installation progress feedback?

2022-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sam Hartman, le dim. 13 nov. 2022 14:52:48 -0700, a ecrit: > >>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: > > Samuel> Getting feedback every second would be very spammy, and > Samuel> 10m would be very long. Should we e.g. use 1m? More? > Samuel> Le

Re: Debian and Orca installation Question

2022-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Egon, le sam. 29 oct. 2022 20:46:21 +0200, a ecrit: > 2022-10-29 20:07 GMT+02:00, Jordan Livesey : > > just use the netinstall iso files, they give you a minimal mate desktop > > with gimp and libreoffice but everything else you are free to use and > > customise in turms of what else you wa

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty failing to load in initramfs started before systemd-udev-settle.service

2022-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sébastien Hinderer, le lun. 14 nov. 2022 09:13:28 +0100, a ecrit: > 2. As suggested by Samuel privately, it may be suitable to have the > support for embedding BRLTTY in initramfs upstreamed so that this > feature becomes available in all distributions, especially in the > context of being

Re: Debian and Orca installation Question

2022-11-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Egon, le mar. 15 nov. 2022 06:10:59 +0100, a ecrit: > What can I do when the kernel in Debian stable (even with non-free > firmware-supported net-install image) not support the integrated Wi-Fi > card of my notebook? Easiest is to use a USB wifi dongle. Samuel

Re: Alt+Left Arrow Won't Cycle through Consoles after Kernel Update?

2022-11-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chime Hart, le sam. 19 nov. 2022 15:12:19 -0800, a ecrit: > Hi All: Finally after 122 days I rebooted my main machine which had been on > 5.18, now Linux chime 6.0.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.0.8-1 > (2022-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux > Before, I could use alt+either left or right

Re: no space left on device

2022-11-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn, le mer. 30 nov. 2022 15:39:00 -0600, a ecrit: > There a lot of items in /tmp. > I'm wondering if I can simply delete everything in /tmp without causing more > problems. Actually /tmp is supposed to be completely cleared at reboot, so you can safely drop whatever is there. Samuel

Re: Devian 11.5.0 Live Install DVD not Having BRLTTY pre-configured

2022-12-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Juho Tuomainen, le ven. 02 déc. 2022 15:53:20 +0200, a ecrit: > Dear Debian Accessibility team members, > I would like to inform you that while downloading the Install Live DVD > image file from > https://laotzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/11.5.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-

Re: eSpeak Voices

2022-12-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, K0LNY_Glenn, le jeu. 01 déc. 2022 17:25:16 -0600, a ecrit: > So I thought I would see if this voice is in Orca, on Debian, but I don't > find any other voices by default, Which version of Debian that is? Seeing espeak variants in Orca is a relatively recent feature, it was made available

Re: Hypervisors

2023-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > I ran the below command and got a zero, so I know that the > machine I wanted to put a hypervisor on, won't do VMs. > egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo You can still run qemu, but that will be slow since it'll be software emulation. You can however use Xen, which does not

Re: KVM Keyboard Commands

2023-01-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, K0LNY_Glenn, le lun. 23 janv. 2023 22:51:52 -0600, a ecrit: > I read on line that control alt toggles back and forth, Which version of kvm is that? Depending on the version, it may be control-alt-g, or shift-f12 Samuel

Re: Bug#1030682: edbrowse: new version available

2023-02-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ivan Shmakov, le lun. 06 févr. 2023 13:07:31 +, a ecrit: > [Please do not Cc: me, as I’m “on the list,” so to say, Are you on pkg-a11y-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net? (that's the one that gets the bts mails) > The latest version of Edbrowse currently tagged in the upstream

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: > I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules are not being > loaded for any sound cards. Indeed, the sound drivers have not been included in the arm images. When the issue with wxwidgets will be solved, I'll

Bug#1031289: linux: Missing sound drivers (and speakup) in d-i on arm64

2023-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Source: linux Version: 6.1.8-1 Severity: normal Tags: a11y d-i Hello, Some people on debian-accessibility wanted to install debian in arm64 under the utm wrapped qemu on Macos. The current installation images however do not include sound drivers and speakup. Applying the attached patch to d-i bri

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100, a ecrit: > Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: > > I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules are not being > > loaded for any sound cards. > > Indeed, the sound drivers

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: > The first thing to note is that the image does not come up talking at all in > stock configuration. What is "the stock configuration"? Does that include a framebufer device? If not, that's expected: speakup only works with an actua

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pointing out the accessibility-related pieces: Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 19 févr. 2023 13:31:15 +0100, a ecrit: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second alpha release > of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". > > Following the 2022 General Resolution about non-fr

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian Schoepplein, le sam. 18 févr. 2023 11:11:16 +0100, a ecrit: > The reason why I am not able to install the system is because of the missing > kernel modules. Ok, that's expected at this time. > The harddisk can not be found by the installer. And this is just a consequence. Now, whethe

Re: libvte gugs and Mate-Terminal

2023-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Christian Schoepplein, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 17:20:42 +0100, a ecrit: > Can we do something that the libvte bugs to be fixed if they still exist? It'd need to be worked on upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/88 Samuel

Re: libvte gugs and Mate-Terminal

2023-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Andres, le mar. 21 févr. 2023 07:34:43 +0100, a ecrit: > oh nice! But it is not in Debian testing right? The bug is *not* fixed upstream, it still has to be worked on. So it's not fixed in Debian either. Samuel

Re: BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chevelle, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 21:46:46 -0500, a ecrit: > update-rc.d: Warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported: falling > back to defaults > > Not sure if this is a problem or not, That is not a problem. > because I haven't gotten the Braille device working under the VM.

Re: BRLTTY on Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chevelle, le jeu. 23 févr. 2023 20:34:10 -0500, a ecrit: >     I was using 'quickemu'.  I think I tried > > quickemu --vm --braille --display sdl Oh, interesting that they have an accessibility documentation section :) > I'm not sure from the instructions how it is supposed to work. Should > 'br

Re: espeakup sid arm64 under qemu

2023-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le ven. 03 mars 2023 10:42:17 -0500, a ecrit: > If anyone knows anything to help with this situation, I'd really appreciate > it. Also, where might be a better place to discuss this? I don't see a debian > audio related mailing list. Maybe a qemu related mailing list is t

Re: Numen Voice Control

2023-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, John Gebbie, le lun. 06 mars 2023 12:02:01 +, a ecrit: > I use Numen instead of a keyboard and mouse. It's Free Software voice > control that I maintain, and the website is: https://numenvoice.com > > I just thought I'd try reaching out to one of the accessibility mailing > lists to s

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 2 release

2023-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, D.J.J. Ring, wrote: > I used the text installer to install speech, but no speech was heard > during installation. Usually that is because the firmware hasn't been > included. The old "non-free" images worked fine before, but I guess > not all the firmware that was in the "non-free" images

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: > On Feb 14, 2023, at 6:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100, a ecrit: > >> Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: > >

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le mer. 08 mars 2023 08:23:27 -0500, a ecrit: > > On Mar 7, 2023, at 19:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: > >>> Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100, a ecrit: > >>>

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 09 mars 2023 13:24:10 -0500, a ecrit: > -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex Ok, I tried it and it worked here. Possibly there is something different in UTM vs qemu in Debian. Samuel

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frank Carmickle, le lun. 20 mars 2023 16:31:54 -0400, a ecrit: > I've reported this before, and I believe we had a fix for it. I don't remember what issue you refer to. Samuel

Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

2023-04-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Wales, le lun. 03 avril 2023 17:42:24 -0700, a ecrit: > in various places, such as debconf, there is a tui in debian that is > blue, grey, and red, with black text. > > e.g. dpkg-reconfigure sometimes uses it. i have a lot of trouble with > blue and some trouble with the brightnes

Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

2023-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Wales, le ven. 07 avril 2023 21:27:05 -0700, a ecrit: > having trouble pasting into it as i cannot push a scroll wheel well. You can paste with shift-insert. > > setterm -foreground yellow > > > > that will show up as orange. > > where do i put this? .profile ends up having it work exact

Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

2023-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Wales, le sam. 08 avril 2023 14:15:42 -0700, a ecrit: > On 4/8/23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > You can paste with shift-insert. > > this does not paste. It does in my rxvt. Note that it pastes the selection buffer, not the cut buffer. Samuel

Re: a usible desktop

2023-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, K0LNY_Glenn, le lun. 01 mai 2023 18:59:27 -0500, a ecrit: > I installed gnome-session-flashback > and that was a little better, but all the above issues persist. > I installed unity-session-desktop > or something like that, and it isn't much better. You'll probably want to install the MATE

Re: Installing Open Media Vault

2023-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, K0LNY, le lun. 22 mai 2023 16:29:45 -0500, a ecrit: > [1]https://www.openmediavault.org/ > But when I launch the ISO in VmWare, I get the computer beep, and the > soundcard > is checked in the attached devices, so I know the VM has access to audio, but > I > have tried pressing S and I ha

Re: How to Install Basic Debian CLI System with Networking and screen reader

2023-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le dim. 28 mai 2023 22:33:44 -0400, a ecrit: > It should be an explicit choice to have a configured Debian Command Line > Interface (CLI) Text Mode. IIRC, I already explained here that this can be implemented as a "task" in the installer. It is thus a matter of somebody reporting

Re: speakup configuration settings

2023-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY, le mar. 30 mai 2023 18:04:18 -0500, a ecrit: > But in my Debian 11.7, it seems that there is no speakupconf available. > Is that right? > Do I need to install it for it to be there? $ apt-file search bin/speakupconf speakup-tools: /usr/bin/speakupconf Samuel

Re: to root or not to root

2023-06-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY, le jeu. 01 juin 2023 22:41:56 -0500, a ecrit: > I noticed that su - did not work for me, I had to do sudo su -. > I don't know if this was because I didn't install a root account. Yes, that's it. "su -" is meant to switch to another account by using its password. But if that other account d

Re: How is unstable for dayly use?

2023-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cleverson Casarin Uliana, le mer. 14 juin 2023 16:50:04 -0300, a ecrit: > that Orca in particular is still at version 43.1 in both Unstable and > Testing, while it's 44.1 in the experimental version. Since 44.1 was > released around one month ago, As a reminder, we have released Debian 12 only *la

Re: How is unstable for dayly use?

2023-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chime Hart, le mer. 14 juin 2023 15:43:52 -0700, a ecrit: > I get this message about BookWorm non-free changing its name. Release notes are there to be read. https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.fr.html#non-free-split Samuel

Re: How is unstable for dayly use?

2023-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chime Hart, le mer. 14 juin 2023 18:42:40 -0700, a ecrit: > Hi Samuel: Is their an English-Language version of that item? Sorry, I didn't realize I pasted the french version. Of course there's the original english version: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-informatio

Re: Bookworm: BRLTTY constantly logs errors

2023-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chevelle, le ven. 16 juin 2023 10:52:57 -0400, a ecrit: > I view the system log with 'journalctl -e' there are repeating errors.  > Possibly it can't find yxa2.so. Oops. Are you actually using a braille device? If so, install the brlttyx11 package (and I wonder how it didn't get installed

Re: Cursor routing not longer working with kernel 6.3 on Debian testing

2023-06-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 23 juin 2023 16:37:45 +0200, a ecrit: > Is this a known issue with kernel 6.3? Unfortunately, yes: TIOCSTI poses security problems so it got disabled by default. I had warned at that time that it was needed for accessibility and proposed solutions, but didn't

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Which softwares to install ?

2023-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
LibreFaso, le mar. 27 juin 2023 18:42:22 +, a ecrit: > Anyway, I recently met one guy of Hypra and he told me that their layer of > accessibility (which constitutes the core of what they bring to their users) > is on debian.hypra.fr > I'd like to put it on the computer but I don't understand

Re: Kernel Header Error

2023-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
> Please install the linux-headers-5.10.0-23-686 package, Samuel

Re: newer version of libatspi for Bookworm?

2023-07-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chevelle, le ven. 21 juil. 2023 10:51:53 -0400, a ecrit: > Is it possible libatspi2.48.3 or newer will make it to Bookworm or Bookworm > backports any time soon? bookworm-backports has opened only today, and not even announced officially, allow me the time to react :) Samuel

Re: OT Re: Installing Voxin Eloquence Broke Speakup?

2023-08-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le jeu. 03 août 2023 11:56:48 -0400, a ecrit: > John Doe or whatever your real name is, It does not matter whether this is his real name or not, he has always been called John Doe here and there, and that is what does matter. > Go crawl into a hole, and hopefully that ho

Re: orca_45~alpha-1_source.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

2023-08-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have uploaded the 45-alpha version of orca to experimental, for people to test and report issues to the orca mailing list. Samuel

Re: Choppy speech when using espeak and espeakup on a Raspberry Pi

2023-08-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sukil Etxenike arizaleta, le sam. 05 août 2023 19:10:17 +0200, a ecrit: > I am experiencing choppy speech when running espeakup and also when > running espeak on its own, but not when generating wave files and > playing them with aplay. I'd say this should be discussed with upstream espeak

Re: [BRLTTY] 6.6 has been released.

2023-08-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I had uploaded it to debian unstable. It'll enter testing in a few days. Samuel

Fwd: Choppy speech fixed when updating from bullseye to bookworm

2023-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
From: Sukil Etxenike arizaleta via Pkg-a11y-devel Hi, Subject says it all, it seems I only needed to update the apt sources to a yet not released version. The choppy speech is entirely gone. Now the espeak-ng command fails to speak until I restart espeakup (I have espeakup running on startup, a

Re: Choppy speech fixed when updating from bullseye to bookworm

2023-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 13 août 2023 00:35:37 +0200, a ecrit: > Subject says it all, it seems I only needed to update the apt sources to a yet > not released version. The choppy speech is entirely gone. Was it the speech-dispatcher upgrade that fixed things? > Now the espeak-ng command

Re: Choppy speech fixed when updating from bullseye to bookworm

2023-08-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sukil Etxenike arizaleta, le dim. 13 août 2023 09:59:19 +0200, a ecrit: > > El 13/08/2023 a las 0:37, Samuel Thibault escribió: > > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 13 août 2023 00:35:37 +0200, a ecrit: > > > Subject says it all, it seems I only needed to update the apt sources to

Re: lesson learned

2023-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jude DaShiell, le mar. 22 août 2023 21:00:14 -0400, a ecrit: > I got that system installed fine, but once booted never got > a screen reader to come up and speak. But was it booting at all? If not, this is not an accessibility issue (I don't see how it could), and should be reported to deb

Re: lesson learned

2023-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le mer. 23 août 2023 18:03:17 -0400, a ecrit: > All I can tell you on that score was when I booted the machine I never > heard the grub beep. So it wasn't booting at all, thus not an accessibility issue, but an uefi/grub/lvm issue. Samuel

Re: [orca] Re: (solved) orca's strange behavior in a crowded terminal

2023-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexander Epaneshnikov, le lun. 04 sept. 2023 00:08:42 +0300, a ecrit: > in order to return this fix, where the correction of the diff algorithm > should occur in libvte or in orca? In vte. Diff algorithms should be done as early as possible to avoid overflowing the rest. Samuel

Re: [orca] Re: Braille navigation issues with Orca 44.1

2023-09-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
gt; I'm using brltty 6.5 which is in ubuntu 23.04. But I discovered this problem > also in debian buster and bullseye with brltty 6.3. > > > Roberto Burceni > > Il 04/09/23 19:01, Samuel Thibault ha scritto: > > Roberto Burceni, le lun. 04 sept. 2023 18:51:50 +0200, a

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