For anyone interested, I just fleshed out the GAIM item in the wiki.
It
can be viewed at the following URL:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GAIM
--Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:44 AM
Subject: Navigating GAIM (was Re: tarting orca)
> Hi Cody:
>
> The IM window in GAIM is primarily two things: the chat area where the
> conversation occurs and the text area where you type. There's other
> stuff in there, however, such as a toolbar for smiley faces and a
> horizontal rule. The script for GAIM will speak/braille the text and
> chat areas automatically when they update, but you can use Orca's
> "flat
> review" keys to explore the window if you need to. To do so, use the
> keypad keys:
>
> 7 - 8 - 9 read previous, read current, read next line
> 4 - 5 - 6 read previous, read current, read next word
> 1 - 2 - 3 read previous, read current, read next character
>
> You can also use the Orca modifier key (the "Insert" key) in
> combination
> of some of the keys. To do some exploring into what keys will do
> what,
> press "Insert+F1". This will take Orca into "Learn Mode." In learn
> mode, you can press various keys and key combinations and Orca will
> tell
> you what they will do. To exit learn mode, press the "Escape" key.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Will
>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:10 PM, C-DOG wrote:
>
>> hi willie!
>> I got speech working, its amazing. a lot better then crappy old
>> gnopernicus, more responsive, and itsworks with evolution mazingly. I
>> do
>> have one question...
>> how can I navigate in a IM window in gaim?? thanks a million
>> c
>> ody
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker"
>> <William Walker Sun COM>
>> To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: tarting orca
>>
>>
>>> Hi Cody:
>>>
>>> There could be several problems happening here. If speech isn't
>>> working, you might need to debug that first. Here's a fast pass I
>>> made
>>> on the WIKI for debugging speech (please let me know of changes you
>>> think would be helpful to make it clearer - I wrote it at night when
>>> I
>>> was kind of tired):
>>>
>>> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech
>>>
>>> If the goal is to start Orca when you log in, however, you have a
>>> couple
>>> of options. One is to tell your Linux distribution to not bring the
>>> graphical login up when it boots. The method for doing this
>>> unfortunately varies by distribution. With this option, you can add
>>> orca to your ~/.xinitrc file and then start the graphical desktop
>>> using
>>> xinit.
>>>
>>> Another option is to bring up the System->Preferences->Sessions
>>> application (also known as gnome-session-properties from the command
>>> line) and add orca as a startup program.
>>>
>>> In either case, you might actually want to point to a script that
>>> starts
>>> orca - that way you can do some pre-run cleanup of stuff if needed
>>> (e.g., kill synthesis drivers that might be hung and such).
>>> Attached
>>> is a script that does some of this pre-run cleanup. I'm not really
>>> advocating its use too widely, though, because Orca should not rely
>>> upon
>>> this kind of thing for proper behavior. Instead, it should be able
>>> to
>>> gracefully recover from bad things as much as possible or at least
>>> give
>>> you an informative message about what's causing it pain. But, it
>>> should
>>> at least be able to help you get going.
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:12 -0700, C-DOG wrote:
>>>> hi will,
>>>> but what is a way to avoid this? I mean, running orca from the
>>>> terminal
>>>> probably wont' do the same thing will it? I have tried starting
>>>> orca
>>>> from
>>>> the gnome terminal and minimising the terminal, and using it but
>>>> get
>>>> no
>>>> speech.
>>>>
>>>> cody
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker"
>>>> <William Walker Sun COM>
>>>> To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:14 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: tarting orca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Hi Cody:
>>>> >
>>>> > This looks like it might be related to a GTK+ crasher:
>>>> >
>>>> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326362
>>>> >
>>>> > The main culprit that makes it happen seems to be the run
>>>> dialog. If
>>>> > you can avoid doing that until the crasher is fixed by the gtk
>>>> folks,
>>>> > then things might go better for you.
>>>> >
>>>> > Hope this helps,
>>>> >
>>>> > Will
>>>> >
>>>> > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:38 -0700, C-DOG wrote:
>>>> >> actually I can get through the setup, if I type orca in the
>>>> terminal
>>>> >> then it will say welcome to orca. this does not happen in the run
>>>> >> dialogue in the gui of gnome it just crashes the pannel.cody
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Mike
>>>> Pedersen
>>>> >> To: 'Orca screen reader developers'
>>>> >> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:44 PM
>>>> >> Subject: RE: tarting orca
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hello Cody,
>>>> >> I have opened a terminal and typed
>>>> >>
>>>> >> orca-setup
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I get a prompt asking me which voice I want. I
>>>> can't
>>>> >> quite understand the 2 options, so I select
>>>> one, then
>>>> >> i am asked for speak echo charactors, I say Y
>>>> for yes,
>>>> >> after this I get no speech, what is going
>>>> wrong? I
>>>> >> have managed to get this far. I still can't
>>>> get out of
>>>> >> a terminal window, is there another type of
>>>> setup I
>>>> >> need to do?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> After you finish orca-setup you will not have
>>>> speech
>>>> >> until you type orca. What happens if you type
>>>> orca in
>>>> >> the terminal prompt?
>>>> >> Mike
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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