Re: [orca-list] stopping orca speaking in a specific window

[bart skybridge com au (Bart Bunting)]

Will,

Thanks for that, my bad for not noticing it.


I might have a go at scripting it.  Currently trying to write my first script for vmware.  Haven't made much progress yet but still trying :).

I'm sure I'll have some questions in a bit :).


Regards

Bart

Willie Walker writes:
 > Hey Bart:
 > 
 >  From http://live.gnome.org/Orca/KeyboardCommands:
 > 
 > "Insert-S: Toggle speech on and off"
 > 
 > and from http://live.gnome.org/Orca/LaptopKeyboardCommands:
 > 
 > "Caps Lock-S: Toggle speech on and off"
 > 
 > Hope this helps!  The idea of toggling it per-window (or per-app) is 
 > interesting.  Right now, it's currently handled on a global basis, but 
 > some code might be rearranged to allow it to be done on a script basis. 
 >   I'm not sure how involved it would be, though.
 > 
 > Will
 > 
 > On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Bart Bunting wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi all,
 > >
 > > I'm using orca and emacspeak at the same time.  For the most part this 
 > > works well when I'm running emacs on the local machine as orca 
 > > realises that it can't speak the emacs window and just says 
 > > "inaccessible".
 > >
 > > However I also run emacspeak remotely from within a gnome-terminal.  
 > > The problem is that then I get speech from both Orca and the remote 
 > > emacspeak.
 > >
 > > What I would like to have is a toggle similar to that available in 
 > > speakup which basically says "stop speaking until I tell you to".  
 > > This would work as a global option but would be even more useful for 
 > > me if it could be toggled on a per window basus.
 > >
 > > Does such a thing already exist and have I missed it or would it be 
 > > possible to implement?
 > >
 > > I would be willing to try to add this functionality if someone gave me 
 > > some pointers on where to start.
 > >
 > > Regards
 > >
 > > Bart
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