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greetings, I have busted accessibility on my ubuntu hardy machine. When attempting to build orca (2-22) from the git repository, I ran into some problems at the at-spi step. First autoconf claimed my intltool was too old (it wanted 0.40.0 and I had 0.37.1). After failing to successfully build intltool0.40.0 from source, I was able to get intltool0.41.0 to install from the karmic repositories onto my hard machine. This time whe running "./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/at-spi", autoconf issued an error that my dbus-glib-1 was out-of-date. Again I managed to isntall libdbus-glib-1-2 and libdbus-glib-1-dev from the karmic repositories. Now at-spi did build and install and I moved onto orca. pulling and building orca from git provided no obsticles. As I did with atk, and at-spi, after git clone, I performed a git checkout -b origin/gnome-2-22 (since I'm running gnome-2.22). After finishing the make install on orca itself, I quit my running orca and relaunched it from the run dialog. I returned to the gnome-terminal to double-check I had the new orca. To my surprise, "orca --version" claimed I was running 2.29.4 (not the 2.22.3 I had expected). I did a little exploration to see if I could find any major issues with this mis-matched gnome and orca combination. For the most part, it seemed to be working (there were some parts of the openoffice dialogs that couldn't be read, but I'm used to that). I had to shut down my machine and leave for a while. When i booted back in, after entring in my ID and password, an error message popped up saying that at-spi was requested by this session, but at-spi was unavailable (according to some sighted assistance). I had some sighted assitance click the "OK" button (pressing ENTER on the kyboard did nothing). When the desktop came up, orca was there (kind of). I could still get feedback in the gnome-terminal, bu orca would ot read the menus in the top panel of the desktop nor the run dialog. I double-checked in the atk, at-spi and orca build directories and all three said the working branch was 2-22. In all three cases "git branch" only listed master and 2-22 (with the asterisk in front of 2-22) and "git status | head -1" confirmed origin/gnome-2-22 was the working branch. I proceeded to run make uninstall in all three build directories. I then tried to install atk and at-spi, but apt said they were already the newest versions. I forced a "apt-get --reinstall install atk at-spi". I paid close attention and confirmed that both were installed from the hardy repositories. However, when I went to the shutdown menu item and tabbed to where the log-out icon should be, I did return to the log-in screen; but again when I entered in my ID and password, I got the at-spi unavailabel message. Entering in "orca" or "/usr/in/orca" in the run dialog failed to bring up any speech (it did not say these were invalid entries: I could see the dialog box disappear as if these programs were actually launched). When bringing up the gnome-terminal, I tried orca -t. I did not get the speech output I normally get, and I did otice some text pop up, but it didn't appear to be the long list of language options; it only took up two-three lines. At the moment, I don't have any orca capacity on my ubuntu machine. Does anyone have a clue how I can fix this? Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. |