Re: Help, New Gnopernicus User!

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Kelly, Beth, all,

There is a (poorly documented) mechanism in gnome-help, mozilla, evolution, 
and likely a number of future applications to turn on "caret browsing" mode 
for navigating through the text-content regions of otherwise uneditable text: 
press F7.

Try this with gnome-help.  Once you've done this, you get a caret and can 
traverse through the content region and get Gnopernicus speech feedback so as 
to read the document(s).  In addition, there is flat-review mode in 
Gnopernicus, though it will read more than just text content.


Regards,


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.  Gnome accessibility is improving, but I wouldn't try using it as my
> only access to my Linux boxes.
> I have the same problem as you with the help system.  Lack of access to
> help in Gnome seems to be a "feature".  One way to get a
> list of Gnopernicus keys is to goto preferences and choose keyboard mapping.
> You can read through the list with the down arrow.
> The way to get to a pannel is to use control-alt-tab.  That will cycle
> from pannels to the desktop.
> You might want to read the user documentation for Gnome in a console to
> find out about other useful shortcuts.  If you don't have console access,
> Iexplorer should let you read the web pages.
> Most of the shortcuts you used in Windows will do similar things 
> in Gnome.  If you goto desktop preferences and choose keyboard shortcuts,
> you can see what shortcuts are actually available on your system.
> Gnopernicus should read this dialog without you needing to use any review keys.
> If my answers aren't clear, just ask and I'll try to explain better.
> I've been playing with Gnome for almost 2 years, so I'm probably missing
> the simple things.
>
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:20:51AM -0700, Beth Hatch wrote:
>
> >    
> >    Hello all,
> >
> > After being a Windows user for the last 10 years, I've finally got a Linux
> > system here delivered to me today.  I am a student studying computer
> > networking where we use Linux at school, this is my home system which has a
> > dual boot of Debian Ubantu and Redhat Enterprise Linux which I had custom
> > built for me.
> >
> >    I've spent the last several hours working with Gnopernicus, learning
> > keyboard commands, etc.  I am finding that I can configure voices and
> > preferences just fine, but when I try to read any help for Gnopernicus, or
> > if I attempt to find or use anything like the Gnome panels, or applications
> > of any kind, I have having very little success.  I have tried to research
> > whatever is happening to no avail on several unix and Linux pages that use
> > Gnopernicus, Sun, Debian, Redhat, among others.
> >
> >    I am using Gnopernicus version 09.19 and Festival which was just
> > installed on my system.  Now I hear there is a newer Gnopernicus build,
> > 010.0 I believe......
> >
> >    If someone could point this former Windows user in the right direction,
> > e.g. how do I get the Gnome panels and applications to speak properly, it
> > would be most appreciated.
> >
> >    If this type of newbie message clutters up the list, again, my
> > apologies, please feel free to write to me privately at:
> > bhatch200 comcast net 
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!
> >
> > Beth Hatch
>
>
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