Re: [orca-list] stopping orca speaking in a specific window

[bart skybridge com au (Bart Bunting)]

Will,

Thanks for that, my bad for not noticing it.


I might have a go at scripting it.  Currently trying to write my first script for vmware.  Haven't made much 
progress yet but still trying :).

I'm sure I'll have some questions in a bit :).


Regards

Bart

Willie Walker writes:
> Hey Bart:
>
>  From http://live.gnome.org/Orca/KeyboardCommands:
>
> "Insert-S: Toggle speech on and off"
>
> and from http://live.gnome.org/Orca/LaptopKeyboardCommands:
>
> "Caps Lock-S: Toggle speech on and off"
>
> Hope this helps!  The idea of toggling it per-window (or per-app) is 
> interesting.  Right now, it's currently handled on a global basis, but 
> some code might be rearranged to allow it to be done on a script basis. 
>   I'm not sure how involved it would be, though.
>
> Will
>
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Bart Bunting wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm using orca and emacspeak at the same time.  For the most part this 
> > works well when I'm running emacs on the local machine as orca 
> > realises that it can't speak the emacs window and just says 
> > "inaccessible".
> >
> > However I also run emacspeak remotely from within a gnome-terminal.  
> > The problem is that then I get speech from both Orca and the remote 
> > emacspeak.
> >
> > What I would like to have is a toggle similar to that available in 
> > speakup which basically says "stop speaking until I tell you to".  
> > This would work as a global option but would be even more useful for 
> > me if it could be toggled on a per window basus.
> >
> > Does such a thing already exist and have I missed it or would it be 
> > possible to implement?
> >
> > I would be willing to try to add this functionality if someone gave me 
> > some pointers on where to start.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Bart
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