Re: Orca Ibmtts viavoice

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Juan,

Please see the GNOME Accessibility Guide for tons of info on keyboard 
commands for operating all things GNOME: 
http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.14/ (and specifically see 
Chapter 3 "Using the Keyboard to Navigate the Desktop" at 
http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.14/keynav-0.html ).

There is no "global" key-combination to bring up the control panel - you 
either need to invoke it from the Run dialog (Alt+F2), or navigate to it 
through the menus (Alt+F1 - or Ctrl-ESC in some distros to get to the 
first menu).

The moral equivalent of the task bar is either a top or bottom panel 
with things like an application menu in it (but also commonly lots of 
other goodies).  Ctrl+Alt+TAB will cycle through all of the various 
panels and the desktop (where you can get to icons, the trash, etc.). 


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> Thanks for the help.
>
> I have a few more questions.
>
> First, I see that alt+f1 goes to the applications menu, where I can access
> various apps, but how can I access like the control pannel, and how do I
> shutdown the gnome-session?
>
> I remember that when using gnopernicus I could easly do this, but I don't
> know if I hit a certain key, or something else.
>
> Thanks 
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> Behalf Of Willie Walker
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:51 PM
> To: Orca screen reader developers
> Subject: RE: Orca Ibmtts viavoice
>
> Hi Juan:
>
> Thanks for the kind words.  The configuration GUI for Orca is not
> complete yet.  We hope to get *something* available soon.   For now, you
> need to hand edit ~/.orca/user-settings.py.
>
> In general, we're trying to keep the specific interface and keystrokes for
> Orca to a minimum.  That is, we don't want to have to require users to learn
> a whole bunch of special Orca keystrokes in order to be able to use the
> machine.  Instead, Orca will follow your keyboard focus around the display
> and present things to you.  
>
> But, we do realize the need to do some exploring and some control of Orca
> using the keyboard.  For this, we've generally taken over the numeric keypad
> and have also chosen to use the "Insert" key as the Orca modifier.  If you
> want to explore around the keyboard, you can enter Orca's learn mode by
> pressing Insert+F1.  When you enter learn mode, Orca will consume all
> keyboard events and will tell you what action the key combination you've
> pressed will do.  To exit learn mode, press the escape key.
>
> You can also visit the Orca web site and WIKI for more information:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Will
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:04 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
>   
> > Great, thanks.  I got orca up and running.
> >
> > My first impressions are, I really like this much more than gnopernicus.
> > One queston, does orca have a controlpannel to be ab le to change
> >     
> settings?
>   
> > If yes how do I access it?
> >
> > Also, is there a guide on the commands for orca?  
> >
> > Thanks.
> >  
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] 
> > On Behalf Of Willie Walker
> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:44 PM
> > To: Orca screen reader developers
> > Subject: RE: Orca Ibmtts viavoice
> >
> > Hi Juan:
> >
> > With respect to gnome-speech, the Java support is needed to build the 
> > gnome-speech driver for FreeTTS.  If you don't a a need for this, the 
> > the gnome-speech build should work fine without the Java access bridge.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:28 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> >     
> > >  One other thing, I noticed when building gnome-speech, that there 
> > > was java support, is this for accessability?  If it is, how do I get 
> > > it to recognize my java access bridge?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org 
> > > [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org]
> > > On Behalf Of Willie Walker
> > > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 3:46 AM
> > > To: Orca screen reader developers
> > > Subject: Re: Orca Ibmtts viavoice
> > >
> > > Hi Juan:
> > >
> > > You should be able to do this in three meta steps:
> > >
> > >   o Obtain/install IBMTTS from IBM
> > >   o Build gnome-speech, enabling the IBMTTS driver
> > >   o Run orca-setup and choose the IBMTTS driver
> > >
> > > Hope this helps, and the same instructions apply if you want to use 
> > > the Fonix DECtalk voices,
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 03:00 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> > >       
> > > > How do I get orca to use ibmtts viavoice?
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > >
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