Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-17 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Brian, I think this is a great idea and I'd be happy to participate. Mike > The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors recognizes the importance > of Accessibility in the GNOME desktop. To help foster a more > clear and positive vision, the board thinks it would be helpful > to form an Accessibi

Re: [orca-list] TTSynth Is Here At Last

2007-06-07 Thread Mike Pedersen
> Yes, though you may need additional pieces. For instance, I don't > believe gnome-speech-ibmtts is available from Ubuntu repositories by > default. As long as it's available in svn trunk that works for me. Off to buy a copy and give it a try. Mike ___

Re: [orca-list] TTSynth Is Here At Last

2007-06-07 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Janina, does this now install and work correctly with the default libraries installed on ubuntu? Thanks muchh Mike On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 12:39 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > The premier Text To Speech (TTS) software synthesizer for Linux is now > available for immediate on line purchase and

Re: MIDI Sequencer

2007-04-24 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Ariel, > Jokosher looks like a nice alternative to audacity written with pygtk > > http://www.jokosher.org/ Muchh of this application is accessible how ever there are several buttons such as the one to import a file whichh one can not navigate with the keyboard. Mike _

Re: Orca and Firefox 3 CVS build

2006-12-06 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Lorenzo, > If there is to be a 1 link per line representation of a page which is > different from the way the page is actually presented, may I suggest > that this behaviour be configurable. I personally prefer to be able to > read a page the way it is presented on the screen, since it makes

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Pedersen
> Couldn't this be just configurable? > > Yes but we'd really like to offer a default to help users get started more quickly. Mike ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gn

Re: Installing Orca on Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Christian, > I have just installed the latest test version of Debian. I cant seem to > install Orca. it looks like the atspi library is missing. The 1.0 seem to be > installed, but orca doesn't want to install. > Any ideas? > Often times people find that the debian distribution does not

Re: orca newbe

2006-10-04 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Hank, > hello any tips for a new orca beginner? > there a quick start guide to get me up and running? > how do I read with orca etc. > I like what I am seeing > smiles > __ Please see: live.gnome.org/Orca. Mike ___ gnome-accessibility-list maili

Re: Which programs are you using?

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi, > I think that a list of the type you suggest is a great idea. I've been > keeping one of my own which I would like to share with you. I would also > like to help this community find a centralized place where we can store > this kind of information. The Gnome Accessibility Project webpage on t

Re: Cepstral voices.

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Thomas, > I've been wondering this for quite a long time. I have some Cepstral > voices for Windows, but was thinking of buying some for Linux for quite > a while. Can anyone tell me weather the theta or swift engines are > supported, and a list of known voices which work with gnome-speech

audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, > Audacity offers some higher end features and is written in gtk, so it > should be somewhat accessible if the authors have been thoughtful > enough... have never tried it (for accessibility), though. > I just tried audacity with orca and saddly the whole thing seems to show up as inac

Re: firefox?

2006-08-22 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Cheryl, > Can we use firefox at all yet? I am able to choose that app and it > appears to load a mozilla website but I haven't figured out how to > get any other websites to load. > In order to try firefox you will at least need a firefox 2 nightly which can be found at: ftp://ftp.

Re: Serious accessibility issue in Gnome 2.15.

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Al, > > I'm running Edgy with Gnome 2.15, and am experiencing major weirdness > in terms of accessibility when attempting to use it with Orca. > I am also running the latest ubuntu edgy with the latest orca and finding similar problems. I've also reproduced our problems running gnopernicus.

Re: DECtalk Express How-To?

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Joanie, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hi all. I have a DECtalk Express and would like to get it working -- > ultimately with Orca, but for now I'll settle for just working. > Could someone please point me to the appropriate how-to? > The only way to make an express work with orca is by using t

Re: purchasing software dectalk

2006-07-20 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Luke, > > I have both 4.6.1 and 5. 5 feels more responsive to me, but I am > interested in whether 4.6.4 is as responsive. > > I'm running 4.6.4 and find it to be quite responsive. The big improvement over 4.6.1 is th

Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.

2006-07-06 Thread Mike Pedersen
A minor error in my last message. That should have been killall -9. Also, you will need to of course restart orca after doing this. Mike Mike Pedersen wrote: > Hello Thomas, > >> Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and >> festival and Dectalk 5.

Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.

2006-07-06 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Thomas, > Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and > festival and Dectalk 5. I've noticed orca crashes quite often > unexpectedly, and the only way to get speech back is to reboot from scratch. This may be a case of the entire desktop getting hung. We have made

Re: Dectalk version?

2006-07-03 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Thomas, > Do you know if 5.0 will work as well. I don't see any major reason to > say not, but I am just wondering if you guys have any issues with 5 > and gnome-speech. > If not I'll test it and let you guys no. I have no idea so any feedback you can give would be much appreciated. Mike

Re: Dectalk version?

2006-07-03 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi, let me clarify here. I'm using Dectalk 4.6.4 which is much more stable than the 4.6.1 release that some may be using. Mike Mike Pedersen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > >> I wanted to setup the Fonix dectalk up with gnome-speech, but I was >> wondering which version works

Re: Dectalk version?

2006-07-03 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi Thomas, > I wanted to setup the Fonix dectalk up with gnome-speech, but I was > wondering which version works best with gnome-speech 4.6.4 or 5.0. The demonstration was done with 4.6 which is what I use every day. Mike ___ gnome-accessibility-list ma

RE: Where to find more orca documetation.

2006-03-26 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Luke, > One thing I noticed was the document that was loaded into > StarOffice for reviewing. > I checked out the latest Orca CVS, and didn't find any docs > that were similar to what was shown. > > So where can I obtain these docs? In particular, where can I > find out the particular k

RE: Java Access Bridge

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello, > I don't seem to have Java Access Bridge installed with my > Fedora FC4 and that's probably why Gnopernicus doesn't work > satisfactorily. When I try to install it, I get the following > message: "Java 1.4 or later is required to build > java-access-bridge?. As far as I can figure out,

RE: Some questions

2005-10-01 Thread Mike Pedersen
lete. Hope this helps Mike Pedersen ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list