Re: java-Access-Bridge and Gnopernicus

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi everyone:

There's a mixture of obsolete and current info floating around here, so
I thought I'd try to point out the basic steps to getting the Java and
OpenOffice accessibility stuff working with GNOME.  Like the other
replies, mine might be a bit incomplete too.  However, you should _not_
need any environment variables to do this, the environment variable
techniques have not been required for over a year.

(1) obtain java-access-bridge and a recent GNOME with at-spi,
gnome-speech, gnopernicus, and OpenOffice 1.1 or later installed;

(2) Carefully follow the instructions in the INSTALL file in
java-access-bridge.

(3) make sure the gconf key in your gnome desktop
/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility is set to 'true'

to check this:

gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility

to set it:

gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true

(4) restart your desktop.

(5) If you want to run gnopernicus and don't have a sighted friend to
turn on gnopernicus from the
Applications->Desktop_Preferences->Accessibility->Assistive_Technology_Support
menu, you can set those gconf keys directly too, before starting your
GNOME session. To configure GNOME to always start gnopernicus, without
using the dialogs for this, type the following command as a single line:

gconftool-2 -s -t list --list-type string
/desktop/gnome/accessibility/exec_ats "[gnopernicus]"

You can even control gnopernicus settings this way, but it's not
documented and not really 'supported'.  However for folks who need
braille from the outset, this knowledge may be helpful

best regards,

Bill