Hello. For various reasons I'm trying to switch back to Linux as my primary OS. I've successfully installed Hardy and am mostly successful with it, but I have a few questions. First, can someone please explain what the standard procedure for reading email should be? I'm reading it slowly at the moment because for each message I do the following: 1. Press enter. 2. Arrow down to the end of the headers. 3. Press right arrow several times. This gets me past a few unlabeled tables and panels and into the message text. 4. Press +. Compare this to the workflow for reading new webpages (I.e. load them and they start reading automatically.) Seems like I should be able to do something similar in Evolution. I've noticed that, when adding new accounts in Pidgin, that characters entered into the screenname/server name fields are spoken twice. Has anyone else experienced this? I've also had lots of trouble getting speech-dispatcher working. I've mostly followed the instructions on the Orca wiki--the only step I've not taken is to create an Orca-specific file. With the default configuration, spd-say refuses to speak anything and, when I enable the speech-dispatcher speech backend in the Orca preferences configuration, it predictably fails. I've attached a log of the interaction with LogLevel bumped to 5. As a general Orca usability issue, if I try opening more than one instance of the preferences app, is there some reason that Orca pops up a dialog noting this, rather than just snapping focus to the running instance? In closing, I'd like to state that I'm quite impressed in what I've seen thus far. I've played a bit with Ubuntu previously, but I've finally gotten frustrated enough with various shortcomings in my previous platform to seriously consider switching full-time. Last week I tried a certain horribly inaccessible website under OS X and Windows XP with every combination of NVDA, JAWS, Firefox 2.0/3.0 and IE. None of them worked at all, as the site developer was doing obnoxious AJAX server-side form validations. Firefox 3 under Orca performed well, and I was actually able to spot just why my form data was failing to validate on the first try. Nice work.
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