Re: Constantly Losing Speech Output

2011-06-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You need to provide more info. What hardware? Is this happening with speech-dispatcher or gnome-speech? There are probably more questions to ask, but this will start. Kenny On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:51:03PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > > I am having the very devil of a problem with

Re: Trying to build orca & caribou

2011-05-06 Thread Kenny Hitt
about the renaming of at-spi libs so at-spi 2 libs could be parallel installed. Once again, this is just a guess from a user. Kenny On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:32:16AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 25 April 2011 01:23, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > Hi.  In your original message, you didn&#x

Re: Trying to build orca & caribou

2011-04-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. In your original message, you didn't say if you had used build-dep to make sure all orca dependencys were installed. You might try running something like sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca My guess is you are missing a dev package for at-spi, but this is just a guess. Kenny ___

Re: say all, did not work :Re: [orca-list] Announcing Orca v2.91.90

2011-02-22 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I don't see your problem with 2.91.6. Also I don't see anything in the release notes for 2.91.90 that would explain your problem. I use the espeak gnome-speech driver instead of speech-dispatcher. I wonder if you have found yet another problem with speech-dispatcher? Due to it's frequent c

Re: help with data on webkit accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Thanks for your explanation. I was wondering why I was getting no speech. Now that I understand the issue, I have to say that since Debian and Ubuntu chose to ignore upstream, they should be the ones to fix it. Since Linux is my only desktop OS, I depend on Firefox for access to the web. Cons

Re: help with data on webkit accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:02:31PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 11:57 -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > > Hopefully, one of the Orca developers can answer you. All I know at this > > point, is I get no speech when I start help. Flat review sees noth

Re: help with data on webkit accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:47:52PM +0200, Xan Lopez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > Hi. > > After the recent discussion on this list, I filed a bug in Debian to try to > > ask them to not use webkit for yelp. > > The Debian mainta

help with data on webkit accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. After the recent discussion on this list, I filed a bug in Debian to try to ask them to not use webkit for yelp. The Debian maintainer replyed and told me he thought the accessibility issues were resolved. A quick sirch for webkit on bugzilla.gnome.org didn't find any bugs. I'm sure I didn't

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:16:25AM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > This is just not true. The Yelp you get from gnome.org is > based on Gecko. There is an experimental webkit branch in > git. There have never been any releases from that branch. > Despite this, Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) decided

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:22:04AM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Kenny/Eitan: > > On 02/20/10 11:46 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: > >I'm not sure I've made my point, but I'll send this and see the result. > >I've tried to keep this nice and helpful

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mmm, Even free software projects do have such top-down control > structures. For instance in Debian you're not supposed to leave an > architecture apart when you package an application, and critical bugs on > them are release-c

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:39:44PM -0600, Nolan Darilek wrote: > > Interesting, gnome-terminal has always worked fine for me. I do get > occasional odd breakage, but usually only on the level of annoyance, > and likely due to me using edge versions of certain apps and > libraries. I wonder if

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:58:43PM -0600, Nolan Darilek wrote: > On 02/20/2010 11:46 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: > >Hi. In my view, Gnome accessibility will never succeed. It will sometimes > >get close, but will > >never make it all the way. > >... > >In the App

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. In my view, Gnome accessibility will never succeed. It will sometimes get close, but will never make it all the way. I came to this conclusion after using Gnome versions from2.2 through 2.28. I've seen several occasions where a change in Gnome broke accessibility. Combine that with the fa

Re: Help me with the Q3 Report

2009-10-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
, 2009 at 07:25:42PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I cannot duplicate this on gnome 2.28.0 on my gentoo system. I > went into gnome-t4erminal and got the prompt and typed a couple of cr's, > but didn't try any apps. > > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > > >

Re: Help me with the Q3 Report

2009-10-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
, 2009 at 05:56:49PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Do you have a bug report handy? > > Will > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > >Are you going to mention the breakage of gnome-terminal in 2.28, > >or is this just for good news? > > > > Kenny > >On Tue, O

Re: Help me with the Q3 Report

2009-10-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
Are you going to mention the breakage of gnome-terminal in 2.28, or is this just for good news? Kenny On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:27:00PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Hi All: > > It's time for the GNOME Q3 quarterly report. We had a really good > presence in the Q2 report, with mentio

Re: A11Y Projects

2009-05-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. It looks like they don't want to work with existing accessibility. Instead of making a new speech output system, it would be much better to make the widgets work with existing screen readers. I admit I have never liked self voicing apps since the developers always seem to make asumptions th

Re: Run Vibuntu on USB with persistant storage!

2008-12-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Create your own list and please stop constantly spamming other lists. Kenny On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:18:26PM -, Anthony Sales wrote: > I have been cross-posting because I presumed there would be some people who > are only subscribed to one list, like I was at first (Ubuntu)unt

Re: What is the proper way of launching Speech Dispatcher?

2008-08-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I haven't seen any reply to your message. In my case, I used system preferences sessions to add the command to start speech-dispatcher. It created a speech-dispatcher.desktop file in .config/autostart. The table in the dialog seems to be displayed in the order of startup. I added the entr

Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I'm difinitely no expert, but I'll try to answer. The answer to question 1 is no. The keyboard is handled differently in the Xsession and the console. Most ORca users just disable the screen saver and lock the computer manually when needed. You can do the same by going to system preferences

Re: bugg

2008-07-05 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. the control insert space opens app specific preferences. In his mail, he was in nautilus when he pressed it. There isn't a general tab in the app specific preferences. To open Orca's default preferences, use insert space instead. This isn't a bug, just a case of a user not reading the ma

Re: [Fwd: [Blizzard] Blizzard 2008 listening test is ready !]

2008-05-14 Thread Kenny Hitt
hi. The page is accessible with Firefox 3.0. Unfortunately, it requires quicktime. So far, I haven't figured out a way to play there samples in Linux. Kenny On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:33:04AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Hi All: > > I haven't looked at the page to see if it is acces

Re: Thoughts on speech

2008-03-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I'll comment inline. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:29:43PM -0700, Marco Zehe wrote: > Hi there! > > After reading comments on this subject from the past couple of weeks, I > can't help but think that, either I'm doing something wrong, or people > are so used to things not quite working right that

Re: debian speakup gnome orca howto

2008-03-12 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Looks like I need to also write a HOWTO. I used a different method with good results. Didn't need to delete any files before starting and my method has ORca configured before you login to Gnome the first time. Kenny ___ gnome-accessibil

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-18 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I've been using Gnome since 2.2. I think I should also raise my hand. I do have the free time to help. Also, I run Gnome full time now days thanks to ORca. Kenny ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.or

Re: accessible remote and 64 bit support

2007-12-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. That link results in an empty page. Do you have a more current address? Kenny On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:19:00PM -0700, Peter Korn wrote: > Hi Cody, > > Please see the Remote Access Bridge work > (http://www.remoteaccessbridge.com/) which allows a Windows (or > theoretically a Ma

Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Personally I preffer the screen reader approach over self voicing apps. Using the screen reader lets me do things like change rate, voice, and most important ignore things when I become familiar with the app. YOu can't do this with most self voicing apps I've tried. There's nothing more a

Re: test-speech returning Unknown CORBA exception while trying toget voice list

2007-08-24 Thread Kenny Hitt
but Orca was an extra install. > > So, will the test-speech program still serve me as a useful tool to ensure > that gnome-speech is working? > > Thanks, > Keith > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kenny

Re: test-speech returning Unknown CORBA exception while trying to get voice list

2007-08-23 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Both Gnopernicus and the speech-dispatcher gnome-speech driver are no longer supported. Starting in Gnome 2.14, the default screen reader is now Orca. If you want to use speech-dispatcher, Orca has an experimental speech-dispatcher back end. You should consider upgrading to at least Gnome

Re: [orca-list] Desktop sounds in Gnome

2007-03-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I depend on a screen reader for access to Gnome. The system sounds are also important. One issue you haven't mentioned is a case where a web site starts playing sound. If the audio system can't handle multiple sounds at the same time, you will loose the screen reader when you visit any o

Re: Migrating from debian to ubuntu?

2007-03-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You don't upgrade a Debain system to Ubuntu. You will need to do download a livecd and do a new install. Kenny ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-acce

Re: Orca under Debian?

2007-03-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I would recomend switching to Ubuntu instead of Fedora. Ubuntu is based on Debian, so everything you know about Debian will apply. Kenny On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:33:45PM +0100, Christian wrote: > Hi all, > Running latest Debian Etch and i cant get Orca to work on it. I can't fin

Re: Weird problem with Openoffice.org and permissions, i think

2007-02-11 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Try copying the file to another partition. Hope this helps. Kenny On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:59:11PM +0100, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to open a word document on a windows partition for editing > with OpenOffice.org writer. The list of files with their names is >

Re: Term crashing in ubuntu feisty

2007-01-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:12:15PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > They have been doing a *bunch* of development on vte. You should read > the ChangeLog. (Would that I could summon the energy of Chris > Wilson...) Anyhoo, is backspacing working as expected? And what about > updating the

Re: Orca and minimalist X environments (was Re: accessible routers)

2007-01-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:25:42PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote: > > The command `xclip' allows you to operate X selection from the > command-line. In Debian, it comes in the package of the same name. > > Best regards, Tomas. Thanks for the info. If I ever need to go back to using the console

Re: Orca and minimalist X environments (was Re: accessible routers)

2007-01-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:20:18AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I'd rather recommand to continue to use the linux text console (much > faster) and switch to X only when needed. > > Samuel > ___ The problem with this is you loose the ability t

Re: Term crashing in ubuntu feisty

2007-01-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
Oops, looks like the svn got fixed just after I sent my message. The errors are gone now, and the svn does build. Kenny On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:51:44PM -0600, kenny wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:47:38PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > > Hi Kenny. > > > > I also saw t

Re: Term crashing in ubuntu feisty

2007-01-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:47:38PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hi Kenny. > > I also saw the backspace problem with vte-0.15.2, and that problem was > resolved afterwards. What compile errors are you getting? > keymap.c: In function '_vte_keymap_map': keymap.c:964: error: implicit decla

Re: Term crashing in ubuntu feisty

2007-01-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
hi. The svn for vte appears to be broken. I wasn't able to build because of compile errors. The latest tarball from gnome.org (vte-0.15.2) seems to have fixed my crash, but I now have other problems. Backspace is broken and Orca doesn't always read the screen contents as it updates. Review doe

Re: Term crashing in ubuntu feisty

2007-01-27 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I also have the problem. I sent Willy email with a way to always cause the crash, but none of his people seem to be having the same problem. I think I know what is happening, but I would like to compare notes with someone who isn't having the problem. Unfortunately, neither he or his people

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-12 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:57:18PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > Darn, I was hoping that would be a smoking gun. We have three Orca > developers (Rich, Mike, and Joanie) testing on Feisty, and they cannot > seem to reproduce the problem. I'm still curious if this might be > related to specif

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-10 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. It is en_US.UTF-8. Kenny On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:43:02AM -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > Hi Kenny: > > Which locale are you using? Is it en_US or something else? > > Will > > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 07:01 -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > Hi. > > &g

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-10 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:10:56AM +, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > #8 0xb7677249 in IA__g_malloc (n_bytes=4294967257) at gmem.c:135 > > This shows that the number of bytes is wrong. > > I suggest logging a bug againt vte. > > I would be helpful if we knew what the text was. > > It's ha

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-09 Thread Kenny Hitt
Replying to myself since I deleted the other messages in the thread. I used tee to capture the output of the gdb session since the output was causing problems for vim when I used speakup's cut and paste. I installed the dbg versions of glib, atk, and at-spi. Hopefully this log will provide enoug

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-09 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:30:51PM +, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > The number of bytes which g_malloc() is trying to allocate would be useful. > If the number if normal then it suggest that you have run out of virtual > memory. If it is abnormal it suggest a bug in the code. > > Padraig >

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-09 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:48:07AM +, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > We need to know what the calls in libvte are. > > Padraig > Is this better? Let me know what else I need to send, and I'll be happy to get it. Kenny Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-08 Thread Kenny Hitt
n Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:48:37PM +, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > I think that a stack trace for gnome-terminal process will be necessary. > > Padraig > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I am having a strange problem using gnome-terminal in Feisty. > > G

Re: gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-08 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:48:37PM +, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > I think that a stack trace for gnome-terminal process will be necessary. > > Padraig > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I am having a strange problem using gnome-terminal in Feisty. >

gnome-terminal crash in Feisty

2007-01-08 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I am having a strange problem using gnome-terminal in Feisty. Gnome-terminal crashes with no error dialog. Then it crashes, all terminal sessions close. The crash is random, but it seems to happen when I use a Orca review key. Gnome-terminal is at version 2.16.1-0ubuntu1 Libvte9 is at versi

Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?

2006-12-18 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Debian can be accessible, but I found I had to build packages from source to get things working. What I found was either badly out dated packages for some things needed for accessibility, or main stream Debian simply doesn't have a package for a needed lib or app. I've had problems getting O

Re: Fire Vox [ was Re: Orca and Firefox ]

2006-11-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:01:25PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > Kenny, can this new script co-exist alongside Orca's original firefox > script? > > If so, I may see about getting it, as well as the firevox extension > packaged for feisty, and may make edgy packages for it available as

Re: Fire Vox [ was Re: Orca and Firefox ]

2006-11-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
I'm replying to myself with an update. On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:23:53PM -0600, kenny wrote: > Hi. > > I tried it using Orca for speech output. The first problem I've found > is read to end isn't working. It starts to read and then appears to > hang. > I have notice that I seem to get more inf

Re: Fire Vox [ was Re: Orca and Firefox ]

2006-11-02 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I tried it using Orca for speech output. The first problem I've found is read to end isn't working. It starts to read and then appears to hang. I have notice that I seem to get more information from Firefox now just using it as I would normally do. For example, I know hear if a link is exte

overlapping speech output with the gnome-speech speech-dispatcher driver

2006-11-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The overlapping speech problem you are seeing with espeak is a result of using aplay for output. I get the same effect with DEctalk and the dtk generic module when I changed it to use aplay for output. I currently use the gnome-speech driver and dtk-generic output module instead of the direct

Re: Gnome-2.16.1 and Orca-1.0.0

2006-10-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Version 2.17.1 is newer than version 1.0. There isn't a laptop keyboard layout yet. aIf you had Orca 2.17.1 running, you might want to remove your .orca directory and run orca -t again to create the .orca settings for 1.0. Hope this helps. Kenny On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:17:35PM

Re: Ubuntu Accessability

2006-10-18 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:43:39PM -0700, Peter Korn wrote: > content like images in web pages). Ubuntu comes with Festival, > configured for use with Orca. You can also use other text-to-speech > engines, like the commercial Fonix DECtalk for $50 if you prefer. It Do you have a link

Re: Adding applets in Gnome and other questions

2006-09-17 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Try control f10 while the pannel where you want to add the app has focus. Kenny On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:17:01PM +0200, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm currently playing with the latest Ubuntu Edgy and particularly with > the applications in Gnome and i just have to say

Re: installing edgy

2006-09-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The short answer to both of your questions is "yes". Someone else has already answered your second question, so I'll try to answer the first. The partitioner wasn't usable with Orca. I ended up using cfdisk to create the free space I needed to install Ubuntu. I then told the install to use

Re: selecting text in a gnome terminal

2006-09-07 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Thank you! That works. I don't find it awkward on my desktop keyboard. Not having cut and paste was driving me nuts. Kenny On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:33:48AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:06:57AM EST, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > Hi. Would

selecting text in a gnome terminal

2006-09-05 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Would someone please point me to info on selecting text for cut and paste in the gnome terminal app? I've read the gnome accessibility docs and didn't find anything about it. Thanks in advance. Kenny ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing l

Re: Getting debian's gnopernicus to talk and java access bridge to compile

2006-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:50:10PM +0200, Petra Ritter wrote: > > Joust to make sure. Do I need this utility only if I want gnome get working > with a > java-based program like OpenOfice or do I need it anyway? > > You will need it to make sure you can get speech output from Gnopernicus o

Re: Getting debian's gnopernicus to talk and java access bridge to

2006-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The Java Access bridge is only needed if you want access to Java apps. You don't need it for basic access to Gnome. Kenny ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Getting debian's gnopernicus to talk and java access bridge to compile

2006-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:59:24AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't bother trying to get the gnome-speech or Gnopernicus that ships > > with Debian working. You will need to build them from source if you > >

Re: Getting debian's gnopernicus to talk and java access bridge to compile

2006-04-19 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Don't bother trying to get the gnome-speech or Gnopernicus that ships with Debian working. You will need to build them from source if you want to get any results. Kenny On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:45:02PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote: > Hi All > > Well I'm jtrying to get my debian

Re: No speech, and magnifier question

2005-10-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Because of the way Debian packages gnome-speech, you won't have the test-speech program. You will have to build gnome-speech from source to get it. Since the gnome-speech package in Debian is out of date, it is probably a good idea to build it any way. Hope this helps. Kenny On S

Re: Drivers supported with gnome-speech/Gnopernicus [Comparison on features?]

2005-10-10 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. i have the same problem with the latest gnome-speech. Cepstral has replaced theta with swift. I haven't looked closely at the theta source code, but the names of the header files are now swift_defs.h swift_exports.h swift.h swift_params.h BRLtty has a separate swift and theta driver, th

Re: accessibility hooks in the X server

2005-10-03 Thread Kenny Hitt
g it includes XEVIE. I'd recommend version 6.8.2 or later. > > Bill > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > > >Hi. > > > >I'm in the process of installing Gnome on a Debian Sarge box. Since I > >know I won't get much usable with default Debian Sarge packages, I

accessibility hooks in the X server

2005-10-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I'm in the process of installing Gnome on a Debian Sarge box. Since I know I won't get much usable with default Debian Sarge packages, I plan to build parts of the system from source. What X server provides the most hooks for accessibility, xfree86 or xorg? Thanks in advance. Kenn

Re: Slackware 10.1 and Gnopernicus

2005-09-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I don't use Slackware myself, I use Debian. However, I recently helped a friend set up Gnopernicus under Slackware. We ran into some important issues. First, festival isn't a Slackware package, so unless you want to use commercial speech, you will need to build it from source. The maintaine

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I have to agree with Samuel. I've been trying to use Gnome for over 2 years now. There has been progress, but I still use the text console for everything. Elinks in the text console provides better access than Sun's Mozilla. I can't access remote systems in the Gnome environment, so Gnome

Re: software TTS

2005-09-29 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. The page is completely accessible with elinks in a text console. I had no problem with the demos or buying voices. The site was so easy to use with elinks I ended up buying 3 voices. Kenny On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:31:56AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, > >From Windows the page

Re: Speech Dispatcher

2005-09-28 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Based on my experiences with gnome-speech, I would prefer to see the Gnome apps drop use of gnome-speech in favor of speech-dispatcher. I find speech-dispatcher to be more stable and dependable. It is my default speech output for my console screen reader already. I have had a speech-dispatch

Re: Debian, how to reconfigure X server?

2005-09-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You do it the same as for reconfiguring any Debian package. dpkg-reconfigure packagename Packagename is the name of the package to reconfigure. Kenny On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:22:09PM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > Hello everyone. After installing Debian Sarge, I am getting the "I

Re: installing gnome and gnopernicus

2005-09-19 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. It isn't likely you can get an accessible Gnome without building some parts from source. You should update your Gnopernicus to the latest version since the version in Sarge is out dated. If you need Braille support, you will need to patch the Gnopernicus source before building. The problem

Re: Gnopernicus and BRLTTY

2005-08-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. To try to get your routing buttons working, do the following: goto the preferences dialog in Gnopernicus (option 2 from the Gnopernicus main menu) choose "Braille Preferences" (option 2 in the preferences dialog) choose "Braille key mapping"(option 5 in the Braille Preferences dialog) You

Re: Evolution and Email

2005-08-17 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Just what should be a simple question: how do you get Gnopernicus to read a message? I seem to be stuck on the tool bar. I can get to what appears to be a table called inbox, but I can't read any of the messages. I'm running the latest Gnopernicus and Evolution 2.2 under Gnome 2.10.

a cheer for Gnopernicus 0.11

2005-05-25 Thread Kenny Hitt
hi. I just wanted to say thanks for finally making Gnopernicus read the first item in a table list without having to select it. I have folders on my system with only one entry. until now, working with these folders was a real pain because Gnopernicus wouldn't read the entry. With Gnopernicus 0.

getting Gnopernicus to output more in Braille

2005-05-25 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. After my recent attempt to install gnome-speech 3.7 broke my speech access, I'm using Gnopernicus with only Braille output. Gnopernicus doesn't send all messages to the display. Functions such as "describe surroundings" give no output in Braille, only speech. Is it possible to change this?

Debian specific accessibility issues

2005-04-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. At this time, I'm using Debian's Gnome 2.8 from unstable. The exception is Gnopernicus and gnome-speech. I'm noticing some problems and I would like to talk with other Debian users to compare notes. Probably the most important question is: are other Debian users running Debian's Gnome, or a

Re: braille initialization problem

2005-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:34:38PM +0200, Jan Buchal wrote: > No, it is not my problem. My Debian has 6 consoles only and X runs sure > on 7th console. I set the CONTROLVT variable on value '7' but brltty run > still on console where I started X. > I'm not sure I understand your problem. Br

Re: braille initialization problem

2005-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. As a general rule in Linux, the X server will use the next available virtual console. I haven't changed anything from the Debian defaults, so I have 6 text consoles. This means my X server will start on virtual console 7. If you have reconfigured your system to have more text consoles, then

Re: _ seems to cause problems with festival

2005-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
f you use festival_say to say > > "70s_sky.fm.pls" > > ? > > Do you get the same behavior (running festival standalone, without GNOME > or gnopernicus or gnome-speech)? > > - Bill > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > > >Hi. > > > >I have

_ seems to cause problems with festival

2005-04-20 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I have the following file name: 70s_sky.fm.pls in my nusic folder. Festival says the name as "seventys underscore dot sky dot zero dot zero". The DECtalk server says the name correct, only festival seems to have problems. Kenny ___ g

Re: braille initialization problem

2005-04-19 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You need to set the CONTROLVT environment var to the virtual console running your X server. My X server starts on console 7, so I have the line: export CONTROLVT=7 I use gdm for logins, so I added the line to my ~/.gnomerc file so it will be set during the gdm login. Hope this helps.

Re: Gnopernicus speak when I press CTRL+ESCAPE only

2005-04-16 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. This is just a thought about your problem. Do you have Gnopernicus set to start minimized? If so, I believe what you are seeing is the fact that nothing will have focus after Gnopernicus starts and minimizes itself. If you press control-alt-tab, (hold down the control and alt keys and press

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:44:44PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Kenny Hitt on 2005/04/15 at 10:30 -0500] > > >If I use prefix as / then the indlude files will be installed in > >/include instead of /usr/include. > > No, they won't. BRLTTY'

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 05:38:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Oh, prefix is / by default indeed, so that bindir is /bin and libdir is > > > /lib, because else BRLTTY can't start if /usr is on a separate drive. > > > > > > > If I use prefix as / then the indlude files will be install

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Never mind, I just need to add the --includedir= to my config script. Kenny On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:30:59AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:32:07PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Kenny Hitt, le Fri 15 Apr 2005 09:23:45 -0500, a

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:32:07PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Kenny Hitt, le Fri 15 Apr 2005 09:23:45 -0500, a dit : > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:17:58PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Kenn

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:17:58PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Kenny Hitt, le Fri 15 Apr 2005 08:57:18 -0500, a dit : > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var > > --infodir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --libexecdir=/usr/lib

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
One important point I forgot. This will work using Debian unstable. I don't use any other distro, so I have no idea if what I did would work on anything else. Kenny On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:57:18AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > I should probably finish readi

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I should probably finish reading this thread, but I thought I should go ahead and post a more complete description of how I have Gnopernicus 0.10.5 working with Brltty 3.6.1. I configured Brltty 3.6.1 with the following: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --info

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:01:50AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > You should replace gnopernicus/braille/libbrl/ttybrl.c by the one > provided in brltty/Patches/ttybrl.c. > As of 13:00 GMT on 04/15/2005, the ttybrl.c file in Brltty's svn won't build with Gnopernicus. The file shipp

Re: Error opening brlapi connection

2005-04-15 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:25:44AM +0200, Jan Buchal wrote: > > that's good question. However I do not know where I can find brlapi-dev > for brltty 3.6.1 source code. I have found rpm package only. > > As far as I'm aware, there isn't a Debian package for brltty 3.6.1. I removed the Debi

Re: gnopernicus and braille display not working

2005-04-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. You need to set the CONTROLVT variable to tell BRLAPI the virtual console of the X server. export CONTROLVT=7 That tells BRLAPI my X server is on virtual console 7. If you use gdm, add the line to your ~/.gnomerc. If you use startx, add the line to what ever file you use to start Gnome. W

Re: [g-a-devel] first attempt at a doc to help with Braille support in Gnopernicus

2005-04-13 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:32:22PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Kenny Hitt on 2005/04/09 at 15:46 -0500] > > >Since I'm using the ttybrl.c with the Gnopernicus 0.10.5 source, I would > >like to have the final file included in the Gnopernicus source. &g

jdk1.5

2005-04-12 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I thought I've read on this list that we should use Sun's JDK 1.5 for our Java in Gnome accessibility. I haven't had any luck getting it from Sun's web site. The registration gives me trouble no matter what browser I try. I have 2 questions. Is it acceptable to just use JDK 1.44? If not, i

Re: [g-a-devel] first attempt at a doc to help with Braille support in Gnopernicus

2005-04-09 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 02:05:31PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > It should be possible (although I haven't tested it) to use the LnnKnn key > strings. Could you use those instead? > It took me a while to understand what you meant by LnnKnn, but I finally got it. Yes, I can use those strings.

Re: [g-a-devel] first attempt at a doc to help with Braille support in Gnopernicus

2005-04-09 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Kenny Hitt on 2005/04/09 at 10:25 -0500] > > >I didn't like the initial defaults. When I tried to > >change them, I ran into problems because I tried to map my display to > >more cl

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