Re: Orca testing...

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hey Cody:

Orca does pretty well with many GTK+ applications.  If you can  
provide more details about what you couldn't get working (and what  
you tried), we might be able to help you get going with it.

Will

On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Cody Hurst wrote:

> hey will,
>   I do not have the elequence sdk, but will do some googling for it.
> Fedora 5 should be great, I am tempted to download and run the
> prebeta, but I don't want to spoil it. I'll play around with it. Can
> orca read like menus, icon folder views, etc? I couldn't get it to
> ever work for me.
>
> Cody
>
> On 3/14/06, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > Hey Cody:
> >
> > I'm not a Fedora Core 5 beta tester or user, so I'm not sure.  We've
> > been developing Orca on Solaris and Ubuntu lately and are having
> > relatively good success with the GNOME 2.14 bits, which I believe
> > will be making their way into the soon-to-be-released updates of
> > Ubuntu and Fedora.
> >
> > Orca can currently talk to emacspeak and gnome-speech drivers for
> > speech.  I know there is an eloquence driver for gnome-speech, but I
> > don't have the eloquence SDK, so I've never been able to verify that
> > the eloquence driver works or not.  If you have the eloquence SDK and
> > are willing to hack, you might try building gnome-speech with the
> > eloquence driver and then checking to see if it actually works using
> > the gnome-speech /usr/bin/test-speech application.  If the eloquence
> > driver works, then it should work fine with Orca.
> >
> > Please remember that Orca is still pre-beta.  We have a lot of work
> > to do with it, including the development of a configuration GUI to
> > make it easier to set the various settable parameters, including
> > selection of the speech system.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Cody Hurst wrote:
> >
> > > Hi will,
> > >   List is alive I almost forgot I was subscribed to it. Fedora  
> > > core 5
> > > is supposed to be released in a few day march 20, will orca work  
> > > well
> > > with that? Does orca by any chance support elequence? can we soon
> > > implament that is it doesn't and would it be hard to?
> > >
> > > Cody
> > >
> > > On 3/13/06, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > > > Sorry for the spam.  Just want to verify this list is alive.
> > > >
> > > > Your moderator,
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
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