On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote: > > In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get > Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards - > turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of > your normal tasks to see what I mean. The voices are fun to play with as > well if you're running Fiesty. And you may actually find it useful to have > the text to speech engine running as you write as it's a dam site easier to > spot spelling mistakes as you're using two different parts of the brain. >
A most interesting mail Ian. To familiarise myself with the issues I decided to take up the challenge of installing gnome-orca! To slightly complicate matters, I use Kubuntu, but I managed to install the program without any obvious problems. Annoyingly, it has fallen at the first hurdle - attempting to launch either orca or orca-setup results in errors being listed on the command line. Although I am sure I can sort those for my own use, it would perhaps cause a partially sighted user (or indeed a fully sighted, but new to Linux user) to give up before they had started. I will check if these issues have been flagged up to the project already before I begin sorting them out. Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
