Re: Accessibility in Garnome-0.24.2

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Jeff,


On Fri, 16 May 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="John J. Boyer">
> 
> > Gnopernicus installed without a hitch. I've set it up for braille output,
> > according to advice on the gnome-accessibility list. That included turning
> > on the accessibility feature.
> 
> Was that by turning on the accessibility key in gconf-editor (or more likely
> with gconftool-2) and restarting GNOME?
Yes, I used gconftool-2 then logged out as that user and logged back in. i 
thought that was what Bill told me to do, but it didn't make any 
difference.



> 
> > However, I'm getting only the welcome and goodbye messages from
> > gnopernicus. There is no access to the desktop. I've inquired about these
> > matters on gnome-accessibility but have not received a response. This
> > probably indicates that nobody has anything to offer at the moment.
> > 
> > Can any of you think of things in this release of garnome which might be
> > preventing Gnopernicus from working?
> 
> The text-to-speech stuff worked well for me, but the braille display (the
> cheat sheet for sight-bound people like me) didn't seem to work. I was
> chatting to Bill as I was testing, he seemed to think it was a problem with
> those releases.

I hope the new releases will also fix the limited support for braille 
displays. I have an Alva320 braille terminal, but only alva380 is 
supported explicitly. That may account for the messages getting truncated.

 
> 
> Perhaps that is it? I'm sure there will be new releases of all these modules
> for 2.3.2, which is due next week, and there will certainly be a GARNOME
> release to go with it.

I'm looking for that!	
> 
> When you get everything up and running (or at least testable), there are a
> heck of a lot of people who are interested in hearing your feedback. Please
> keep us in the loop! :-)

I'll certainly let you know when I get some results.

John


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 

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