Re: [orca-list] Orca 2.18 on Debian Sid

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

Hello Erik,

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Erik Heil wrote:

> Hi everyone.  I've noticed that Orca hs just became avilable in Sid.  I've
> installed it from the Debian apt repository, and ran orca setup.  Flite
> speaks fine during the setup process, where I can choose what I want.
> Presently, I selected gnome-speech, and it initialized he accessibility
> framework. I logged out, then logged back in.  I can tell that Orca
> started, b/c I'm greeted by the Welcome to Orca message, at which point,
> it switched to focus tracking mode.  Here's the problem though.  After it
> switched, Orca is totally unresponsive. i.e. you can't use any review
> keys, etc.  Its as if Orca was never started.  Anyone else experience this
> on the list?
> --Erik

It could still be working. You could try alt+f1, down arrow once, press o 
and up arrow twice. Press <enter> and, with a bit of luck, you sould be in 
Open Office Writer, and it should start talking. However, this is not very 
satisfactory. I've had the problem, and it seems to have something to do 
with at-spi and which version of Gnome that you're running. You could try 
doing a dist-upgrade to unstable and see if things improve. As far as I 
know, not all of Gnome 2.18 is there yet, but it works for me. On the 
other hand, i've been playing around a bit.

Good luck!

Bertil Smark Nilsson