Re: [orca-list] new user, new questions

[Przemysław Rogalski <Rogalski o2 pl>]

I pressed F5, 3, Enter, Enter.
The system started, but Orca hasn't been activated.
Oh, you're right: I was thinking about BRLTTY 3.8 and 3.9.5.
Can you please send me the Orca and BRLTTY version you use, in the easiest form to install, preferably .deb?
Should I do sth more after the installation has completed?
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Od: "Daniel Dalton" <d dalton iinet net au>
Do: "Przemysław Rogalski" <Rogalski o2 pl>
DW: "Orca Lista" <orca-list gnome org>
Wysłano: 28 grudnia 2007 04:10
Temat: Re: [orca-list] new user, new questions


> Hi,
> 
> Well first don't worry about  having the latest version of brltty.
> The one that comes with your installation is probably out of date and so 
> are the ones in the repo...
> 
> Second there isn't a brltty 9.5 or 8.4.
> Once you have ubuntu installed then build brltty 3.9 from source.
> I am using orca (the latest one from svn) here with brltty 3.9 and having 
> no problems.
> 
> For your other problem about orca not speaking.
> You need to bring up the accessibility menu when it boots.
> When it asks you to run or install at boot time (i think) hit f5 then 
> arrow to screenreader and hit enter.
> You will probably need to press enter again...
> 
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, PrzemysĹ?aw Rogalski wrote:
> 
>> Hello all!
>>    I've just subscribed to the Orca Mailing List.
>> Firstly, I'd like to greet all its members and say "Thanks a lot" to the development team. It's really great that Orca exists, and the blind people can finally appreciate Linux and use it.
>> I think of starting my adventure with Ubuntu 7.10, and am kaking a preparation for that
>> but here appears the first problem:
>> on the Orca web page there is only a description of Accessible Installation for Ubuntu 7.04, and not for 7.10 (unless I can't find it).
>> Perhaps this description applies to both versions, but I don't know where to find such an Orca image, which would run Orca upon startup as a Live CD.
>> Orca gives a link http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
>> (version 8.04 I don't want to install yet),
>> and if I try to run
>> ftp://ftp.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/ubuntu-others/ubuntu-7.10pl-desktop-i386.iso
>> , Orca doesn't speak after the linux start-up music has benn played. Orca is not even present on the CD.
>> May I request for a link to a proper ISO image (with build-in Orca)?
>> or possibly a link to a full debian package for the latest Orca (containing all the components necessary to run Orca, BRLTTY etc.)?
>> I don't have a confortable, constant Internet connection, and that's why I cannot make use of
>> apt-get install gnome-orca.
>> The next thing is that I need an info, what are the hotkeys for making Orca read the whole active window, and to navigating the mouse?
>> Last but not least, I'd like to ask about BRLTTY.
>> The Orca webpage says that Orca works with BRLTTY 8.4. And what about 9.5, which I found yesterday as the last version in a debian package at:
>> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/brltty/
>> Which of the files should I download and in which sequence I should install them?
>> Assume I'll do that.
>> Could you please give me  a detailed description of how to make  BRLTTY start automatically and work with gnome and gnome terminal via Orca, in the way as Window-Eyes does (I mean, providing simultaneous speech and braille support of everything I do on the screen)?
>> I have Alva 380 braille display, connected to serial port COM1, and would like to use Polish braille table.
>> By the way: is it true that the encoding in BRLTTY and in Ubuntu differs, and that as a result Polish characters won't be displayed correctly? If so, how to solve the problem?
>> And the last issue:
>> How to use Skype with Orca? I've heard it doesn't speak at all.
>> OK, that's enough - maybe even too much for one letter. Sorry for that.
>> I'd like to use accessible Linux as soon as possible as the idea seems fascinating.
>> I hope that thanks to your help, I will write you the next e-mail using Evolution or Thunderbird.
>> Thanks in advance for any replies, hints, links and instructions!
>> Cheers!
>> Przemyslaw from Poland
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