RE: Close buttons in dialogs

Hi all Agree +1 Eitan's comment. A person that can use a mouse and see the window buttons to close is redundant the close button in the GUI, but if I was a beginner I don't know that there is these ways of closing this dialogs and less I don't know that with esc, or alt +f4 I can close it. An

RE: GtkLabel question

Hi Charles, all You can make these label accessible if you let them to receive focus. If these labels could get focus assistive technologies like Orca screen reader, When you press the tab key for navigating within the application interface can speak and present in braille the information regard

RE: gksu problem?

Hi all Another workaround is to kill gksu with a key press. I have a bash script thats "killall gksu" and I activate it by pressing e.G control + alt + g using xbindkeys to setup keybindings. So if an application starts with gksu I press that keybinding, gksu dies and everyone happy :-) HTH

RE: how to configure gnome-orca?

Hi all Jude, the first time you launch Orca it should display the configuration preferences dialog. At this point you can select which synth and adjust parameters regarding speech and braille, key echo, magnifier, etc. You also can access to initial configuration from a text console by running

RE: Information about accessibility of Gnome

Hi all Frank, of course there are many accessibility options in the GNOME Desktop! You can use the Orca screen reader and magnifier to gain access to whole GNOME desktop. Please visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more and complete information And join to the Orca community at http://mail.gno

RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

Hi, You have to logout and login back in order to accessibility support take effect. Regards Javier > -Mensaje original- > De: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: martes, 20 de febrero de 2007 14:05 > Para: Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier > CC: [

RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

Hi all John, how are you launching Orca? You can launch it in a gnome-terminal by typing alt + f2 and then write gnome-terminal plus enter key. In that terminal launch Orca by typing Orca& Now Orca should say "welcome to Orca" if it stops could you tell us what output gives orca after launchi

RE: Loquendo (was Re: Using espeak)

Hi to all Yes, Loquendo is available for Linux platform, The problem is that Loquendo doesn't sell TTS' directly. They sell via a partner. In the following URL there is a list of partners that sell voices but I don't know whose of them sells Linux voices. http://www.loquendo.com/en/partners/busi

RE: default synthesiser and multiple languages

Hi to all Michael, one of the speech synthesizer that Orca screen reader can use is the free/open source Festival speech synthesis TTS. In Festival you can use differents voices, including a spanish one called el.diphone. If you are using Debian or Ubuntu distribution you can install the spanish la

RE: need help installing orca on ubuntu 5.10?

Hi all Ben, you need to first configure with './configure --prefix=/usr' If you don't have root privileges would be for example './configure --prefix=/home/ben/orca' and you will need to set the PYTHONPATH envirotment to point to /home/ben/orca/lib/python2.4/site-packages'. Then you need to make

RE: which version of gnome speech

Hi to all Michael, try to download gnome-speech 0.4.3 That includes several improvements to the Dectalk TTS driver. And try to build the Orca 0.2.8 which fixes some issues with the punctuation and Dectalk. Regards, Javier. > -Mensaje original- > De: MICHAEL WEAVER [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: orca tutorial

Hi all Charles, there are much information about Orca in the wiki Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca Or you can check the Orca documentation series at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/orca/docs/doc-set/orca.html this is also available at the docs directory in the .tar.gz archive of Orca. You

RV: Saving Orca settings.

> -Mensaje original- > De: Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier > Enviado el: miércoles, 05 de julio de 2006 8:27 > Para: 'Thomas Ward' > Asunto: RE: Saving Orca settings. > > > Hi all > > Thomas, Yes you can access to orca's preferences to c

Re: Gnopernicus Ubuntu Issues

Hi all Charles, the problem might be the sound in GNOME. Try disabling system's sounds and perhaps the esound daemon. I recomend you installing the Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06, this works much better and is updated to the latest Gnopernicus version. Regards Javier. > > -Mensaje

RE: Accessibility frustrations

Hi, I had the same problem some months ago. On Festival 1.4.3 edit /usr/share/festival/festival.scm And locate the server_access_list variable, it's has to be like this: (set! server_access_list '("localhost\\.localdomain" "localhost")) This will add localhost.localdomain hostname, you have to

FW: Installing speech into Ubuntu?

Tried this and got package not found error. I had already installed Gnopernicus so would this make a difference? I don't think that Have you tried to install festival synthesis system? Apt-get install festival Apt-get install festvox I am not tied to Ubuntu so is there any other distro