Re: how to use gnopernicus?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I don't recommend fedora core 4 for this level of user.  The reason is, 
the way speakup screen reader which does the reading before gnopernicus 
starts up still has to be installed.  Fedora core 3 the speakup-enabled 
version from the isos was the only distribution of Linux I've been at all 
successful in getting gnopernicus to say anything and that was only as a 
result of the help provided by Don Raikes and his cfg-gnome script.  For 
whatever reason I couldn't get slackware or debian talking and can't 
download the talking version of ubuntu to try it out because being on a 
flakey dsl dynamic ip connection with verizon.net isn't conducive to 
running bittorrent even if I knew how to run bittorrent which I right now 
don't.  The way you get speakup on fedora core 4 was explained by janina 
sagka over on the speakup list and is definitely not for even relatively 
new linux users.  Where in solaris 10 can you read how to get solaris 10 
to do a talking installation and how to keep it talking after 
installation?  I haven't downloaded those isos yet (verizon.net) again 
yet.  Also are those available on an rsync server, if I do downloads I 
like to get full integrity versions of isos the first time thanks very 
much.



On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Peter Korn wrote:

> Greetings Chiara,
>
> sunchiaretta yahoo it wrote:
> >  I already posted a similar question but I didn't understand the answer and
> >  I couldn't get my goal.
> >  I would like you to give me the instructions to make gnopernicus read an
> >  internet page. That's all. Could you do this?
> >  Thank you.
> >  Chiara Frassino
>
> To browse a web page with Gnopernicus and a web browser, do the following:
>
>  1. Get a UNIX or GNU/Linux distro with the GNOME desktop and Gnopernicus
>     on it.  Solaris 10 from Sun is a fine choice, but then I'm biased.
>     There
>     are numerous other alternatives.  Fedora Core 4 seems to be a popular
>     one.
>
>  2. Get either a recent build of Mozilla or Firefox, or for best results as
>     of today, get the Sun accessibility branch of Mozilla 1.7.  This can be
>     found at: 
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/sun-mozilla-1.7/04-26-2005/
>     (for your pleasure we include both sources and a binary for Fedora).
>     Note: if you have Solaris 10, you already have a pretty recent Sun
>     build of Mozilla 1.7
>
>  3. Launch Gnopernicus, or configure your desktop session to launch it
>     automatically.  Of course, ensure that GNOME desktop accessibility is
>     also turned on.
>
>  4. Launch Mozilla.  In Solaris 10 this is Ctrl-Esc, down-arrow 3 times,
>  then
>     <CR> or spacebar.
>
>  5. Press the F7 key to turn on caret navigation in a web page.  You should
>     only need to do this once; your caret navigation setting will be
>     preserved across session.
>
>  6. Enter the URL of the page you want to go to.  As focus is intially
>     in the content area, Ctrl-Tab will bring you to the URL bar to do this.
>     Alternately in the File menu is "Open Web Location...".  Alt-F, L
>     or Ctrl-Shift-L will bring up the URL-entry dialog box into which
>     you can enter your URL.  In either case, after typing in the URL,
>     Press <CR>.  Gnopernicus feedback when you go to the URL bar should
>     be "Toolbar, single-line text, http://<your home page URL>".  In the
>     case of the "Open Web Location" dialog, the Gnopernicus speech feedback
>     should be: "Enter the Web location URL or specify the local file you
>     would
>     like to open.  Single line text."
>
>  7. Focus will now be in the content region (if you used the URL bar),
>     or on the URL bar (if you used the dialog box; wierd huh?).  If the
>     later, press Tab to get to the content region.  In either case, the
>     web page title will become the title bar of the Mozilla browser window
>     and Gnopernicus will read it to you.  Get to the content region if
>     you aren't already there (with Tab), and then you can either read the
>     web page by using the standard document arrow keys (left/right arrow
>     to read by character, Ctrl-left/right arrow to read by word, up-down
>     arrow to read by line, Home/End to get to the start/end of a line,
>     and Ctrl-Home/End to get to the start/end of the web page.  You can
>     also use the Tab key within the web page to jump through the links.
>     More detailed information about the navigation schemes you can use is
>     at the Mozilla keyboard content navigation proposal document, at:
>     http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/proposal
>     Unfortunately the Gnopernicus flat-review feature doesn't work with
>     Mozilla due to a Mozilla bug that we know about and hope to address
>     in the not-too-distant future (though if anyone else would like to
>     work on it, please be our guest!  This is open source after all.  Why
>     should Sun have all the fun?  See the bugzilla bug:
>     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257424).
>
>
> I hope this helps get you started browsing the web.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
>
>
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