Re: audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-06 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Bill Haneman wrote: > Mike/All: > > I think audacity uses WxWindows and not gtk+ directly. Thus stock gtk+ > widgets are not being used, as I understand it, and the app is not > accessible. > > Just to follow up: I tested Jokosher the other day with Orca, and it seems to work fine. See: htt

Re: Software that works with Orca? - was Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-06 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Krister: I don't know why you would need or want OCR for reading your email (unless you are talking about printed mail, through your letterbox). Thunderbird ought to be fairly good for mail reading by the time Firefox 3 ships... I think evolution is already usable with orca. best regards

Re: audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-06 Thread Bill Haneman
Mike/All: I think audacity uses WxWindows and not gtk+ directly. Thus stock gtk+ widgets are not being used, as I understand it, and the app is not accessible. regards Bill Mike Pedersen wrote: >Hi all, > > >>Audacity offers some higher end features and is written in gtk, so it >>should b

Re: audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Fco. Javier Dorado Martínez
Hi to all I know that Audacity is WXWidget toolkit based, and I think there's a WXGTK that possibly links these widgets with GTK. There is a stable version (1.2) and a unstable (1.3.x) version. I have found this topic into Audacity's wiki page. Audacity does not have any special support for b

Re: Software that works with Orca? - was Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Thomas Ward wrote: > An OCR program so i can read my mail and i could say bye bye to > Windows. > > > Well, there are a few OCR solutions. I haven't played around with them > much but there is GOCR, clara, and there is a commercial OCR program for > Linux as well based on Omnipages engine. >

Re: audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Mike Pedersen wrote: > 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 saddl

Re: Software that works with Orca? - was Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > When speaking of software that works with Orca, firstly, is the Firefox > 2.0 included with Edgy or do i have to fetch it? Firefox 2.0 comes on the Edgy live cd. I've been told it will be shipping with the latest version of Firefox 2 when 6.10 is out for release in

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: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Calum Benson
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 21:45 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, > > hank smith wrote: > > what about recording applications > > I haven't done much recording myself in Linux, but there is a simple > sound recorder program that ships with Gnome 2.14 that seams accesssible > with orca. In addition th

re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-08-31 Thread hank smith
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Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, hank smith wrote: > what about recording applications I haven't done much recording myself in Linux, but there is a simple sound recorder program that ships with Gnome 2.14 that seams accesssible with orca. In addition the usual text based alternatives such as arecord work nicely for recor

Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > What I would like to know is what applications does Orca work with as I > will only have access to the Gui based applications unless there are > text based ones I can use as well? > Orca works with several GUI based applications as well as a wide range of

Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-08-30 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
I am thinking about having Ubuntu installed on my desktop. What I would like to know is what applications does Orca work with as I will only have access to the Gui based applications unless there are text based ones I can use as well? What I mean is would I have access to Linux DVD players etc? I