Re: [orca-list] new user, new questions

[Przemysław Rogalski <Rogalski o2 pl>]

I pressed F5, 3, Enter, Enter.
The system started, but Orca hasn't been activated.
Oh, you're right: I was thinking about BRLTTY 3.8 and 3.9.5.
Can you please send me the Orca and BRLTTY version you use, in the easiest form to install, preferably .deb?
Should I do sth more after the installation has completed?
----- Wiadomość oryginalna ----- 
Od: "Daniel Dalton" <d dalton iinet net au>
Do: "Przemysław Rogalski" <Rogalski o2 pl>
DW: "Orca Lista" <orca-list gnome org>
Wysłano: 28 grudnia 2007 04:10
Temat: Re: [orca-list] new user, new questions


> Hi,
>
> Well first don't worry about  having the latest version of brltty.
> The one that comes with your installation is probably out of date and so 
> are the ones in the repo...
>
> Second there isn't a brltty 9.5 or 8.4.
> Once you have ubuntu installed then build brltty 3.9 from source.
> I am using orca (the latest one from svn) here with brltty 3.9 and having 
> no problems.
>
> For your other problem about orca not speaking.
> You need to bring up the accessibility menu when it boots.
> When it asks you to run or install at boot time (i think) hit f5 then 
> arrow to screenreader and hit enter.
> You will probably need to press enter again...
>
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, PrzemysĹ?aw Rogalski wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >    I've just subscribed to the Orca Mailing List.
> > Firstly, I'd like to greet all its members and say "Thanks a lot" to the development team. It's really 
> > great that Orca exists, and the blind people can finally appreciate Linux and use it.
> > I think of starting my adventure with Ubuntu 7.10, and am kaking a preparation for that
> > but here appears the first problem:
> > on the Orca web page there is only a description of Accessible Installation for Ubuntu 7.04, and not for 
> > 7.10 (unless I can't find it).
> > Perhaps this description applies to both versions, but I don't know where to find such an Orca image, 
> > which would run Orca upon startup as a Live CD.
> > Orca gives a link http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
> > (version 8.04 I don't want to install yet),
> > and if I try to run
> > ftp://ftp.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/ubuntu-others/ubuntu-7.10pl-desktop-i386.iso
> > , Orca doesn't speak after the linux start-up music has benn played. Orca is not even present on the CD.
> > May I request for a link to a proper ISO image (with build-in Orca)?
> > or possibly a link to a full debian package for the latest Orca (containing all the components necessary 
> > to run Orca, BRLTTY etc.)?
> > I don't have a confortable, constant Internet connection, and that's why I cannot make use of
> > apt-get install gnome-orca.
> > The next thing is that I need an info, what are the hotkeys for making Orca read the whole active window, 
> > and to navigating the mouse?
> > Last but not least, I'd like to ask about BRLTTY.
> > The Orca webpage says that Orca works with BRLTTY 8.4. And what about 9.5, which I found yesterday as the 
> > last version in a debian package at:
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/brltty/
> > Which of the files should I download and in which sequence I should install them?
> > Assume I'll do that.
> > Could you please give me  a detailed description of how to make  BRLTTY start automatically and work with 
> > gnome and gnome terminal via Orca, in the way as Window-Eyes does (I mean, providing simultaneous speech 
> > and braille support of everything I do on the screen)?
> > I have Alva 380 braille display, connected to serial port COM1, and would like to use Polish braille table.
> > By the way: is it true that the encoding in BRLTTY and in Ubuntu differs, and that as a result Polish 
> > characters won't be displayed correctly? If so, how to solve the problem?
> > And the last issue:
> > How to use Skype with Orca? I've heard it doesn't speak at all.
> > OK, that's enough - maybe even too much for one letter. Sorry for that.
> > I'd like to use accessible Linux as soon as possible as the idea seems fascinating.
> > I hope that thanks to your help, I will write you the next e-mail using Evolution or Thunderbird.
> > Thanks in advance for any replies, hints, links and instructions!
> > Cheers!
> > Przemyslaw from Poland
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> Daniel Dalton
>
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