Re: [orca-list] is firefox crashing orca/gnome

["Rusty Perez" <rustys lists gmail com>]

Hi John and others. Well, I don't know if I'm running firefox 2.x or
3.x. I'm running what ever is packaged with ubuntu 7.10 and released
on the 18th.

I've been wanting to try it for a while and I had a friend who's way
into linux wanting to help. We gave it a try a while back, maybe
January. I had heard of lsr ETC. We tried to instal  but we didn't
get real far. he didn't know much about speech ETC. So, I started
reading. Eventually I came across discussion of Orca.
Anyway, this week I downloaded feisty and gutsy. I tried the live
feisty CD but following directions, I couldn't get it to come up
talking. Then I tried gutsy live CD and it came up talking, first try.
So there you have it.
 I'm trying. :-)

Rusty

On 10/24/07, Jon <j orcauser googlemail com> wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> If you are talking about the default firefox 2.x then moving onto
> firefox3 should show significant improvements.
>
> About your question for when to file bug reports,
> Its generally good to ask on the mailing list if someone can reproduce
> the issue you are having, then once this is varified a bug should be
> entered in the bug tracking system.
>
> I am also a blind person wishing to get away from microsoft products, i
> can successfully "do my work" (im a student), communicate over email in
> ubuntu. The only need that i have for a windows machine is to use the
> internet.
> Its really firefox+orca thats the remaining big hurdle for me. Maybe I
> just havent figured out how to "use it properly" but at least i cant
> work efficiently with it, and until then i will be fored to keep a
> windows machine around.
>
> Its very intresting to hear that you got 7.10 installed and working
> (getting some sort of speech) out in the process.
>
> Let us know if you come across something good/bad.
>
>
> -Jon
> On Wed 24/10/2007 at 00:09:42, Rusty Perez wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >  I preface this by saying that I've only been using linux for about ten
> hours.
> > I tried to go on line with firefox this evening. I've used firefox in
> > windows so i have some idea of what to expect.
> > I pressed f7 for carret brousing because I haven't figured out any
> > other way to read the screen.
> > But, as I arrow up and down in a page of text, the screen reader seems
> > to stop reading at certain points, possibly at the ends of paragraphs.
> > And, at a certain point, the thing locks up and I get no more speech.
> > I read a few days ago about espeak and audio port 19 having trouble.
> > Does any one know if they've worked this out?
> > Am i just a screwup?
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> >
> > Rusty
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